President for Life

[Speaker to Animals]

It's nothing Martin can't handle with his sidekick, Vinny, and the iroc at 0300.

[Okeefenokee]

It's nothing Martin can't handle with his sidekick, Vinny, and the iroc at 0300.

[Martin Hash]

It's nothing Martin can't handle with his sidekick, Vinny, and the iroc at 0300.

His name's Ron. He's gay, and works out like a mutterfukker: has Godzilla arms.

[Martin Hash]

True story:
I was full-on in the animation business but still had a bunch of low-rent units that I was 1031 exchanging. My brother called me to say there was a unit that the tenants would not leave and he needed to prep for inspection. They were 3 months behind. (We never got back rent out of the deadbeats, even attaching their wages, they'd just quit their job.) I had some animators up from California, and I kept the cowboy hat & boots, and the long duster in the closet by the server but I didn't have the Merc.
"Hey, you guys want to come help me do this thing?" I asked Tim (Elston) & Bob (Terrell).
"What do you need?" Tim asked.
"Nothing. All you gotta do is stand there."
So they got up from their computer stations and came out to Porsche with me. We drove downtown to the problem rental. Tim & Bob were looking around at the rundown neighborhood.
"Don't worry," I reassured them.
I put on the jacket, hat and boots right then because I couldn't drive or fit in the Porsche with them on.
"What are you getting dressed up for?" Bob asked.
"Nothing. You stand here." I showed Bob where to stand. "And you stand right here by the door," I said to Tim.
Bob was a big fella but Tim had long straggly burnout hair, and looked like a druggie.
I took three big breaths. One. Two. Three. Then I kicked the door with the heel of my cowboy boot.
Normally, I just made a lot of racket because kicking in doors in only on TV, but this was an old place and the door splintered inward. I followed the script.
"Where's! My! Fucking! Money!"
The gal inside was talking on the phone. Her mouth fell open and then she started crying and collapsed to the floor.
I walked back to the car. Tim & Bob didn't move.
"What are you guys doing?" I asked. "We're done here."
I took them to lunch but they didn't eat.

p.s. They both still talk about that story to this day.

[MilSpecs]

Another expert by osmosis.

If you get to do it with your collection stories, then I can with rental stories.

[nmoore63]

Why don’t you just do things in a way that guarantees you’ll get people likely to pay their rent?

Is this serious question?

2 months security, 1 month realtor fee, at least one month's rent in advance. Then there are the checks: credit checks, job checks, references. I'm sure someone could game the system but it wouldn't be likely. In all the years my mom's owned her building she's only had one tenant with a consistent payment problem.

Have you ever been to a rural place?

Urbans can have their poor underclass and then just kick people out to have a perpetual cash rich caste that I am sure is very lucrative to rent to during their transient times.

Not so much where I come from. Most people that can scrounge up 4 months rent buy a house, not rent.

[MilSpecs]

Is this serious question?

2 months security, 1 month realtor fee, at least one month's rent in advance. Then there are the checks: credit checks, job checks, references. I'm sure someone could game the system but it wouldn't be likely. In all the years my mom's owned her building she's only had one tenant with a consistent payment problem.

Have you ever been to a rural place?

Urbans can have their poor underclass and then just kick people out to have a perpetual cash rich caste that I am sure is very lucrative to rent to during their transient times.

Not so much where I come from. Most people that can scrounge up 4 months rent buy a house, not rent.

Then there is a perpetual rent payment problem?

[nmoore63]

Not for me.

[Speaker to Animals]

Does Ron get out to Eastern Washington too?

[Zlaxer]

Letting Xi rule indefinitely “will strengthen the party’s leadership and offer the quickest path toward development,” Zhang said. “We need a powerful leader. People need an emperor in their hearts. The Western idea that you are not alive unless you are free has not taken root in people’s hearts.”

https://apnews.com/5916d9965a634b2ba80c ... erm-limits


Looks like the Chinese want to remain serfs.

“I saw on (state broadcaster) CCTV’s evening news that they were saying everyone fully supports the constitutional amendments, but no one asked us for our opinion. Our opinion is quickly censored,” she said. “This is China. What can we do about it?”

Serf mentality.........pitiful bastards...

Li Datong, a former editor of the China Youth Daily state newspaper and one of the few voices of open opposition, said delegates know the amendment is wrong but no one has the courage to speak out. He compared Chinese citizens to Germans who allowed Adolf Hitler to seize power in the 1930s.

“I know that just a few ordinary Chinese citizens coming out and expressing their opinion will not change anything, but I’m doing this so I can face future generations,” Li said.