DarkKnyt

DarkKnyt t1_iy1gtxu wrote

Reply to comment by PghCurlyGrrl in 15235 neighborhood name by vgutierrez9

That's one and I'm not a fan of property hoarders but that's different from making a place that was not available to rent from into something that is. Other reasons might be bad credit, low wages causing an inability to save, needing to support their family with medical/legal issues, property taxes too high due to unjust distribution of resources for schools, a bad financial decision made earlier in life, and being shitty with their own money despite making enough.

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DarkKnyt t1_iy0pqa0 wrote

Reply to comment by vgutierrez9 in 15235 neighborhood name by vgutierrez9

Some homeowners do not like landlords but it's typically renters. Like the other person said, some landlords are terrible but from my experience as a landlord, some tenants are horrible and downright costly in terms of property damage.

There is a mental leap though when complaining renters themselves can't afford to buy property for whatever reason and thus need rentals to have housing. The price changes according to what the market will bear and renters pay it (again for myriad reasons some of which are really not their fault) even for shitholes which adds to the anger towards landlords.

All that said and having done it, absentee landlords are the worse and paying a property management company 10% to take care of things is almost as bad. We are almost too involved with our property because we really do care but it's generally gone well for us.

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DarkKnyt t1_ixys00x wrote

Reply to Can I get in trouble for snowblowing my own street? by BewareDinosaurs

Make sure you get one that can really throw the snow so you can form the berms in the right place. Also if there are a lot of rocks be careful that you don't throw any of them into your neighbors cars. That will probably make up the majority of complainers of your neighborly help

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DarkKnyt t1_iu8og27 wrote

Reply to comment by Informal_Avocado_534 in Accessibility by balou918

In neighborhoods that 'we' often means the homeowner themselves. They are usually responsible for the 'public' sidewalk to the curb. The city and boroughs could offer incentives for repair but at $10k or more for a reasonable house's frontage, lots of folks are noping out of that.

I find that publicly or public service organization owned sidewalks are pretty reasonable - ramps and bump indicators at the intersections I think are all city so calling 311 can probably make some movement there. But I live in north Oakland: compare the sidewalks in front of little nippers and tamarind (and neighborhoods) to the high dollar ones outside Oakland Catholic, PNC bank, and the new cmu residence hall.

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