All Forum Posts by: John Clark

"The landscaping company has now said they don't have any other option."

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You need a different landscape company, 'cuz that's a lie. Forget whether Roundup is safe or dangerous, or bending to every whim (and I agree you shouldn't cater to every whim), there are alternatives, and while one may believe or disbelieve the EPA, there are admittedly safer options. 

I just don't like tradesmen lying to me. There are other options.

"Name a single city where rent control has damaged a city or its real estate market or made it unprofitable to be a landlord."

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New York City and San Francisco, for two. Proof is in the pudding. Look at landlords' levels of deferred maintenance, tenant buy-outs in the millions, tenant force-outs, etc., etc.

You can easily cash flow in Chicago simply by staying out of Chicago. Mayor Lightfoot is going to introduce rent control, killing Chicago in more ways than one.

"Keep in mind that you are charged for the # of feet wide and long your lot is, how many hose spigots you have, how many toilets you have, and I think possibly tubs/showers?? It's listed on the back of the bill."

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That's for the unmetered account. Metered accounts are billed on actual use, regardless of water items.

Before I got a meter for my single family home, I was paying almost $900 a year, and this was before taxes and garbage fee were added to the bill. Now with a meter, I pay about half what I was paying before, and that's including the tax and garbage fee.

Get a meter.

"We have met the enemy, and he is us." -- Pogo.

Great. Thanks for sharing.

I only emphasized "only," so now you know. Lesson for you: Go to the source, not the salesman. Here, the salesman is AirBnB. The source is the town.

"What I'm seeing in your reply is someone with nothing better to do than berate those BP community members looking for helpful, thoughtful replies"

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Nice try, but it wasn't a thoughtful question. The original poster criticized AirBnB for not being helpful -- as if a national company would have up-to-date information on every town in America and risk liability by giving wrong answers. The original poster needed to use his head for something besides a hat rack. If one has a question about local  government rules, the ONLY intelligent thing to do is go to that locality and ask.

"That is frightening looking at this from a small local level. Consider the bigger picture and taxpayer liabilities on a per person basis created by the FEDERAL Gov."

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Consider the bigger picture and you run into the fact that the federal government can print money, localities cannot print money, and therefore fed debt save for inflation expectations is irrelevant when analyzing state/local debt. Want to go back to the gold, or even bi-metal standard(s)? Sorry son, but it didn't work. Bryant was right; We will not crucify mankind on your cross of gold.