What time is the 5k run on Sunday? Were you planning on checking out of your hotel and then going to the run, and then just hang out until your flight?

If it's early enough you might be able to arrange a late checkout (even if there's a fee involved) and get back to shower before you head out. Generally there's leeway until 1pm without too much trouble. Or even ask the hotel if you can leave your bags and come back and use the hotel gym's showers or something along those lines?

Everyone's racing out before any plowing has happened, hoping to "beat" the traffic, and thus are making things worse. I bet at 5pm it's clear and easy commuting.

Eggs are eggs, but to continue the analogy it's like going to Rare steakhouse at Encore and pointing out how expensive the $195 Tomahawk steak is when you can always just go to Frank's in Cambridge.

You took a picture of organic, free-range, pasture-raised eggs. Those kinds of eggs are always way more expensive no matter what the general cost may be, sort of like how high-end steakhouse steaks are more expensive than what you make at home or get at a more casual place.

Next show us the price of American Wagyu beef and title it "The cost of hamburger at my grocery store!"

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No? Just explaining that I’d rather go through more effort and planning than continue giving S&S my money.

S&S has gone DOWNHILL the last few years, both in quality, availability, and price. At least I knew where everything was so trips were fast.

Then our local one did a complete rebrand/aisle shuffle for no discernible reason, and now you can't find anything and things are not in logical places anymore.

Then they added those weight-sensitive self checkout machines, so even the benefit of fast self-checkout was gone (if you don't time the scanning and the bagging perfectly the machine locks up and you have to wait for the lone attendant).

So I started using the self checkout gun. But now their price bar code machines in the produce section almost never work or they constantly are out of paper. All four of them. It's insane.

After a week or two of that bullshit I realized it was just a slow slide to absolute shit and started planning my shopping better so I could do it once a week with a car (one car household that's needed for commuting) and go to Wegmans. They're not perfect, either, but as long as you like their store brand it's definitely cheaper AND the quality of the produce and meat is phenomenal.

Every time I hear about that place I want to visit it even less.

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OP you have… an interesting interest in all things cars.

"Did you know there used to be a highway in the middle of Boston?"

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Only if you know the password.

Wait till you see the cost of housing!

Illusion.

So it sounds like you are looking to add one or more additional roommates to an existing household (that already paid a broker's fee, presumably, when you first moved in).

Landlords like to use brokers because brokers are allowed to do certain background checks that landlords cannot (it's a stupid loophole in the law that was meant to protect tenants but instead incentivizes this behavior). It's possible your landlord really just wants the background check done.

I would assume that this means that the incoming tenant would be responsible for the fee, rather than those of you who already live there. But in this case it might be best to talk to the landlord to figure out how to avoid this since you're already known tenants with presumably good history of paying on time, etc.

The broker is, in theory, providing a service of showing you the apartment and taking care of the lease signing/etc. So you are paying for this service one time, when you sign the lease.

It's absolute bullshit 99% of the time when the broker maybe turned the key on two or three apartments for you and read a listing to you out loud that you could have read yourself. They do very little actual work most of the time and it's outrageous that such low-effort jobs get such high pay, but that's where we are.

Short answer: you only pay the broker fee once.

Don't forget the shower after!

Is this that famous "facts and logic" stuff I hear basement-dwelling incels talk about all the time?

At least it's not Secret Chicken Agent's basement.

Cheaper than bail later! LOL

Your license will eventually be suspended. Not worth it.

"Tooken 2 starring the incomparable Liam Neesons."

Because it's the same OP.