 Tenant and T.V. (by Janet [KY]) Jun 16, 2017 10:06 PM
 Tenant and T.V. (by cjo'h [CT]) Jun 16, 2017 11:13 PM
Tenant and T.V. (by Jim in O C [CA]) Jun 17, 2017 1:56 AM
Tenant and T.V. (by Robert,Ontario,Can [ON]) Jun 17, 2017 4:44 AM
Tenant and T.V. (by NE [PA]) Jun 17, 2017 4:52 AM
Tenant and T.V. (by elliot [RI]) Jun 17, 2017 5:06 AM
Tenant and T.V. (by Andrew, Canada [ON]) Jun 17, 2017 6:05 AM
Tenant and T.V. (by Vee [OH]) Jun 17, 2017 6:23 AM
Tenant and T.V. (by Gail K [GA]) Jun 17, 2017 6:57 AM
Tenant and T.V. (by LindaJ [NY]) Jun 17, 2017 7:22 AM
Tenant and T.V. (by Emily [TX]) Jun 17, 2017 7:23 AM
Tenant and T.V. (by Martin [CO]) Jun 17, 2017 8:10 AM
Tenant and T.V. (by Frank [NJ]) Jun 17, 2017 8:20 AM
Tenant and T.V. (by Amy [MO]) Jun 17, 2017 8:31 AM
Tenant and T.V. (by Wilma [PA]) Jun 17, 2017 9:58 AM
Tenant and T.V. (by AllyM [NJ]) Jun 17, 2017 10:14 AM
Tenant and T.V. (by Robert J [CA]) Jun 17, 2017 10:22 AM
Tenant and T.V. (by RR78 [VA]) Jun 17, 2017 10:27 AM
Tenant and T.V. (by NE [PA]) Jun 17, 2017 10:31 AM
Tenant and T.V. (by razorback_tim [AR]) Jun 17, 2017 11:31 AM
Tenant and T.V. (by cjo'h [CT]) Jun 17, 2017 10:01 PM
Tenant and T.V. (by cjo'h [CT]) Jun 18, 2017 9:09 PM
Tenant and T.V. (by Janet [KY]) Posted on: Jun 16, 2017 10:06 PM
Message:
At my day job this young college kid told me about
how he just bought a t.v. and it put him in such debt that
he moved out of his apartment so he would have money to pay on this new t.v. He said for the last few months he has just been staying with friends or family.....
anyone where the could live "rent free" with his prize t.v.
He said his two friends said he could come live with
them whenever they get to where they can buy a house
if he will bring his new t.v. and let them all use it.
Listening to his story, It was so hard to keep my
mouth shut as a LL. He was beaming from ear to ear
over his t.v. yet had didn't know where he was living from
week to week.
--74.236.xxx.xxx |
Tenant and T.V. (by cjo'h [CT]) Posted on: Jun 16, 2017 11:13 PM
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Janet,that's so sad.No one to teach him how to handle money and get his priorities in line,no family............Charlie........... --174.199.xx.xxx |
Tenant and T.V. (by Jim in O C [CA]) Posted on: Jun 17, 2017 1:56 AM
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Back in the 70's I worked with a guy who bought $5000 of funiture for his home. When the furniture was paid off they were going to buy a house. Ten years later some of the funiture was worn out and still renting. I bought a $1000 of funiture and my home and a rental. --96.64.xxx.xxx |
Tenant and T.V. (by Robert,Ontario,Can [ON]) Posted on: Jun 17, 2017 4:44 AM
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On the internet sites it is possible to buy a tv for a lot less. There are many tv for around a hundred dollars. --74.220.xxx.xxx |
Tenant and T.V. (by NE [PA]) Posted on: Jun 17, 2017 4:52 AM
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We got ours as a wedding gift a few years ago. I don't know what my wife will do if it ever breaks because I won't buy one.
If always amazes me how people are so fixated on widgets.
This guy moved out of his apartment so he could afford his tv? That's astonishing. Makes me feel like my life should get easier and easier as I do real estate. --74.46.xx.xx |
Tenant and T.V. (by elliot [RI]) Posted on: Jun 17, 2017 5:06 AM
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sometimes I feel that we frugal LLs work hard and don't enjoy as much..
He is just like my handyman or any of those day laborers, they earn today, they spend today. "cos you don't know if tomorrow comes"
"Naked a man comes from his mother's womb, and as he comes, so he departs. He takes nothing from his labor that he can carry in is hand."
Work less, enjoy more, Today! --73.218.xxx.xxx |
Tenant and T.V. (by Andrew, Canada [ON]) Posted on: Jun 17, 2017 6:05 AM
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Not to worry....... he can come to canada and we will give him free social housing so he can watch his tv all day. --70.31.xx.xx |
Tenant and T.V. (by Vee [OH]) Posted on: Jun 17, 2017 6:23 AM
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I am snickering at this, how did my previous tv set last 26 years? Much of the time it was off while I enjoyed cultivating perfume plants, watching kids baseball games and trying to catch fish... --76.188.xxx.xx |
Tenant and T.V. (by Gail K [GA]) Posted on: Jun 17, 2017 6:57 AM
Message:
Bill tells the story of working for a local hardware store as a teenager. He and another employee delivered a riding lawn mower to a mobile home once. They had to tiptoe over the front lawn which was soaked from the septic system flooding over it.
As they went into the trailer for the owners to sign the paperwork they noticed the new big TV in the corner. They also noticed the couple was using the box the TV came in as the crib for their baby.
Gail --71.203.xx.xx |
Tenant and T.V. (by LindaJ [NY]) Posted on: Jun 17, 2017 7:22 AM
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Every Black Friday, when there are thousands of TVs being bought at our local stores, I have to wonder how all the TVs seem to break at that time. Then I wonder if some of these people just don't get another TV every year. I guess I just don't watch TV that much to care. But then, I have plenty of work, hobbies and reading to keep me busy. --96.236.xx.xx |
Tenant and T.V. (by Emily [TX]) Posted on: Jun 17, 2017 7:23 AM
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Sounds like our first eviction. When this tenant first moved in, he went on about how he was so proud of this TV he got from Rent-A-Center and how he had worked hard and deserved it. But in a few short months he lost his home because he couldn't - or wouldn't - pay his rent. --47.184.xxx.xxx |
Tenant and T.V. (by Martin [CO]) Posted on: Jun 17, 2017 8:10 AM
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I was counseling an older couple on their finances a few years ago. They couldn't meet their bills each month. So I went through their budget line by line. Except they didn't have a budget yet, so we had to create one. I recognize that they had some medical bills that were hard to cope with, but their major problem was that they had huge credit card debt. When they determined if they could afford something, the only question was how much more per month would it add to the credit card debt. It never occurred to them that they should wait until they could actually pay for it.
A few months later, their car broke down and they had to replace it. They got a huge Dodge Durango, with a huge monthly payment. I was stunned. I asked them why they didn't get something smaller and cheaper. They said that the "Buy Here, Pay Here" guy said they could afford it, so they assumed they could. I just shook my head. They will never get their debts paid off before they die. Which means they will leave the debt to their kids, or to us. --71.218.xxx.xxx |
Tenant and T.V. (by Frank [NJ]) Posted on: Jun 17, 2017 8:20 AM
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my inlaws passed with 8oK of CC debt. I was SHOCKED to learn that with just a few phone calls and a couel of axed death certs. the debts "went away". --173.63.xx.xx |
Tenant and T.V. (by Amy [MO]) Posted on: Jun 17, 2017 8:31 AM
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2 years that tv will be outdated, too small and cheaper. Hopefully he will remember what he lost for a trendy thing. A $1000 tv that will cost $1500 for using credit.
When we signed up awhile back for satellite they had to send us an adapter because one TV was so old. The tube is going out and you have to beat on it/let it warm up. But hey, you can still watch it! Not that we need it much-we hardly watch TV anymore. Tenant hand me down. --107.77.xx.xx |
Tenant and T.V. (by Wilma [PA]) Posted on: Jun 17, 2017 9:58 AM
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We had some tenants who bought a gigantic oversized (and new) pickup - then proceeded to claim that our rent was too high, that they both had to work two jobs just to break even. Not to mention the trip to Hawaii, the big tv, the deluxe cable package. Oh, and they had a classic truck worth about 30 grand in the garage...
They moved out about 10 years ago to "buy a house" - it was one of those government programs with a minimal downpayment and a tax deferral with a balloon payment due in something like three years. While shopping the foreclosures three years later, guess whose house I found... Last I heard, they've split up and the wife and all of the kids are living with her sibling.
But it was all because our rent was too high... --71.175.xxx.xxx |
Tenant and T.V. (by AllyM [NJ]) Posted on: Jun 17, 2017 10:14 AM
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Wilma, that same thing happened across the street from my wonderful big colonial duplex. They sold ethnic art prints to make the payments and then those went out of favor and they lost the home. Meanwhile a branch went through the roof in the back and they just had someone put a tarp over it. When the bank took it back it was damaged from the roof, through the first floor and into the basement. That house looked wrecked in the front too. The steps had collapsed and the siding had faded to a bad green. It was an eyesore and my tenants complained about it I did not raise rents there due to the ugly sight across the street. Finally someone bought it from the bank and fixed it up. It was just too much for me to handle since I had cancer surgery around the time the house was going through that. The government program was sponsored by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and gave 200 K mortgages to first time home buyers but the contract forbade them from selling for five years. I guess Pelosi and Reid didn't want any house flippers to get in on the program, but that would have saved it actually. I was trying to settle my mom's estate and inherit all the rentals. The appraisals were coming back ridiculously high in 2006 so I went to look at the comparables. Some were unsold and some were boarded up shacks appraised at over 150K in a bad neighborhood. I got a different appraiser since the comparable values must come from sold properties at the time of the death which was 2005. So the appraisals came down hugely. Thank goodness for that since NJ has an inheritance tax for children and I ended up paying 37K as it was. Then I found out about the Pelosi Reid boondoggle and realized that the realtors had jacked up the appraisals on the boarded up shacks in preparation for selling them to some unsuspecting buyer for 200K. --73.33.xxx.xxx |
Tenant and T.V. (by Robert J [CA]) Posted on: Jun 17, 2017 10:22 AM
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I've had tenants buy new cars then couldn't afford rent. In eviction court the Judge asked me where did I expect the tenant to live. I answered, in their new cars. --47.156.xx.xxx |
Tenant and T.V. (by RR78 [VA]) Posted on: Jun 17, 2017 10:27 AM
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Tell him he is doing it all wrong.
Just get on section 8. For some reason they all have nice big TV's --24.131.x.xxx |
Tenant and T.V. (by NE [PA]) Posted on: Jun 17, 2017 10:31 AM
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Robert J, it's interesting that the judge would ask you where you expect the tenant to live.
Why does he care? You don't care. I wouldn't care.
Good answer on your part. --74.46.xx.xx |
Tenant and T.V. (by razorback_tim [AR]) Posted on: Jun 17, 2017 11:31 AM
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Sounds like someone who's destined for poverty unless he develops a new outlook --70.178.x.xx |
Tenant and T.V. (by cjo'h [CT]) Posted on: Jun 17, 2017 10:01 PM
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Miss Ally, for what it's worth.Had cancer about 15 years ago, had Radiation,cleared it up,because of the cancer,met a countryman of mine, he has many friends and relatives in Toronto,A few years ago he went to Canada.Before going,the Doctors found a Lesion on a lung ,were prepared to remove it on return. While there,his friends told him to drink a lieter of water with the addition of jigger of lemon juice.he did.On return to doctors and Xray,lesion had disappeared............^@Charlie............. --174.199.xx.xxx |
Tenant and T.V. (by cjo'h [CT]) Posted on: Jun 18, 2017 9:09 PM
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Amy ,your set sounds to be similar to the one that Onslo has to whack, in the British Sit-Com "keeping up appearances". ..............Charlie..........t --174.199.x.xxx |
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