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PSA: Never rent your house out via section 8

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purbeast0 said:
you gotta be a fucking idiot to rent your own home to section 8 housing and expect it to remain immaculate.
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You have to be a fucking idiot to rent out anything at all and expect it to remain immaculate. However, it seems to me there's a pretty significant middle ground between what was done to that house and "immaculate" though.
 
This is why i never play landlord. Watching all those shows on HGTV how you can make $ being a land lord.. the only time you make money is if you're a slumlord
 
Aikouka said:
Ugh, southern people... beaucoup is pronounced bow-coo not boo-coo.

That looks freaking awful though. :\
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I've always pronouced it boo-coo and I'm not from the south. But I did work at walmart before so that might have something to do with it.
 
slag said:
I've always pronouced it boo-coo and I'm not from the south. But I did work at walmart before so that might have something to do with it.
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Well, now you know, and knowing is half the battle. 😛 The part that's weird is that I think the people that pronounce it "boo-coo" would pronounce the word "beau" (sort of the opposite of "belle") properly. Although, to be fair, I'd give someone a similar stare if they kept saying a Spanish word with a double-L as a 'L' instead of a 'Y'. Example: "Yes, I'd like a so-pa-pill-a."
 
I don't even return phone calls from potential tenants who ask if I accept Section 8. For the persistent ones who really want an answer, I merely say that I do not participate in the Section 8 program, my property is not inspected or and I am not setup in that system. It is illegal to refuse a section 8 tenant but stating you do not participate in the system deflects the blame and is defensible.

I usually choose people with professional jobs, a long working history and good credit; thats the ticket imho. Even better if they don't have kids or pets.

Another good tactic is to charge a $25 application fee, that discourages sec 8.

You also screen sec 8 tenants like anyone else. Sec 8 people usually have bad credit, criminal history, unemployed etc... As long as you turn them down for a legal reason, you are reasonably safe.
 
Just always run a credit check.

Section 8 w/ good credit (or only very recent poor credit) = good person down on his luck

Section 8 w/ bad credit = entitlement mentality, they 'deserve' to rip people off and not give a shit

You can add a fee to run the credit check too.


Same for all renters.
 
Lifted said:
A certain relative of mine lives in a studio apartment in Manhattan. The rent is around $2,400 - $2,500. My relative pays $900 and the gov pays the difference.

I want my gold back too.
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There's a difference between Manhattan rent control and section 8.
 
Aikouka said:
Well, now you know, and knowing is half the battle. 😛 The part that's weird is that I think the people that pronounce it "boo-coo" would pronounce the word "beau" (sort of the opposite of "belle") properly. Although, to be fair, I'd give someone a similar stare if they kept saying a Spanish word with a double-L as a 'L' instead of a 'Y'. Example: "Yes, I'd like a so-pa-pill-a."
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Ugh. I have never used that slang but anyone who does would use English words before using the correct pronunciation because the incorrect pronunciation is PART of the slang usage... just like bourgeois/boo-zshee, The people who say "boo-zshee" would say "stuck up," "aloof," "better than us," etc if they were only allow to pronounce bourgeois correctly.

Got it?
 
Aikouka said:
The whole point of slang is that it isn't proper speak. Merci, but if you want to sound like an idiot that can't pronounce a simple French word like "beaucoup", then be my guest. Also, I made the remark about being southern, because I've only ever heard it mispronounced like that down here in the "sowth", and when I looked it up, it listed that it was slang in the south-east US. Hence, he's probably southern. I actually had a friend say that to me once, and I gave him a puzzled look while saying, "Wait... you mean 'beaucoup'?" "Yeah, boo-coo!" "..."

So, untwist your panties, suthnur. :colbert:

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I mean fuck... even the Vietnamese guy in Full Metal Jacket can pronounce it properly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyGOJ1_kcI8#t=1m28s
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In other words, you are a petty dumbass. I actually can't believe how stupid a person has to be to get so hung up on this especially considering you corrected a friend over such a ridiculous thing. Grow up. People mispronounce words literally all over the world in every corner of every country. Also, you aren't cool because you know how to say a French word.
 
CZroe said:
Ugh. I have never used that slang but anyone who does would use English words before using the correct pronunciation because the incorrect pronunciation is PART of the slang usage... just like bourgeois/boo-zshee, The people who say "boo-zshee" would say "stuck up," "aloof," "better than us," etc if they were only allow to pronounce bourgeois correctly.

Got it?
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People say "boo-zshee" too? Thanks for the warning. 😛

The part that gets me about the slang usage is that the actual definition isn't different. It's just a completely incorrect pronunciation that's become slightly accepted and denoted as "slang." Ultimately, slang isn't correct. I mean... how many times did your English teacher scold you for using "ain't"? "Ain't" ain't a word and you ain't supposed to use it! 😛

MrDudeMan said:
In other words, you are a petty dumbass. I actually can't believe how stupid a person has to be to get so hung up on this especially considering you corrected a friend over such a ridiculous thing. Grow up. People mispronounce words literally all over the world in every corner of every country. Also, you aren't cool because you know how to say a French word.
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Oh, boy... I find it really amusing that you of all people would say this. You, that guy who came across as a self-important tool in the Candy Crush thread. You need to get it through your thick, egotistical head that I haven't ascribed any sense of being cool because I know how to say a French word correctly. Also, there's a huge difference in the way you correct someone, and there's a good chance that you're making some rather huge assumptions based on the conversation that I wrote out. Let me give you a hint, other than "boo-coo" and "beaucoup", that conversation is probably not accurate at all. In fact, I don't even remember most of it.

Look at it this way, bud... how are you ever going to know you're doing something incorrectly if either (a) it doesn't blow up in your face or (b) someone doesn't tell you about it. Now, you may be the type that gets a bit sore in the rear when someone corrects you, and that's fine.
 
Aikouka said:
People say "boo-zshee" too? Thanks for the warning. 😛

The part that gets me about the slang usage is that the actual definition isn't different. It's just a completely incorrect pronunciation that's become slightly accepted and denoted as "slang." Ultimately, slang isn't correct. I mean... how many times did your English teacher scold you for using "ain't"? "Ain't" ain't a word and you ain't supposed to use it! 😛
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It's a word when it's commonly accepted. The language is constantly evolving as a result, so if everyone uses ain't and boo-coo, then they're words. It's all arbitrary anyway, which is why it's so stupid that you're acting high and mighty about it. Case in point, "okay" and "blizzard" used to be slang words, but now they're not.

Oh, boy... I find it really amusing that you of all people would say this. You, that guy who came across as a self-important tool in the Candy Crush thread. You need to get it through your thick, egotistical head that I haven't ascribed any sense of being cool because I know how to say a French word correctly. Also, there's a huge difference in the way you correct someone, and there's a good chance that you're making some rather huge assumptions based on the conversation that I wrote out. Let me give you a hint, other than "boo-coo" and "beaucoup", that conversation is probably not accurate at all. In fact, I don't even remember most of it.

Look at it this way, bud... how are you ever going to know you're doing something incorrectly if either (a) it doesn't blow up in your face or (b) someone doesn't tell you about it. Now, you may be the type that gets a bit sore in the rear when someone corrects you, and that's fine.
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In the same paragraph, you preached about "correctly" correcting someone and then italicized all kinds of random words to really drive the point home that you do, in fact, think you're cool for how you pronounce words. I love when people use the phrase self-important in a derogatory way while also acting self-important. It's also hypocritical and somewhat amusing that you basically said your last few posts were full of misinformation and misleading statements, but somehow I'm the idiot. The irony... I'm not even going to bother responding to the rest of your trolling. Work hard so one day maybe you will find yourself all grown up and able to look past trivial differences in other people.

I don't care at all if someone corrects me. Saying a word one way or another doesn't really affect anything, so if someone prefers for me to say a word another way then I'll do it. Only an immature little twat would get pissed off about this.
 
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Captain Howdy said:
CZroe doing his normal petulance gig, I think. Between that and typical ill-formed ATOT opinions, I think the thread run it's course on the useful front a while ago.
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It was actually Aikouka with his staring and giving people puzzling looks while acting like he was telling a riveting story.
 
MrDudeMan said:
It was actually Aikouka with his staring and giving people puzzling looks while acting like he was telling a riveting story.
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Well, I am a fan of George Carlin, and I also believe that knowing how to use language correctly is important so I think he has a point. Then again, he also threw in the regional jab as well, so maybe it is 50/50.

I think I am just used to CZroe and Ichinsan mucking up threads from their repeated derailing of the Hume thread, and other grammar nazi annoyances. Kind of funny to see it going the other way.
 
natto fire said:
Well, I am a fan of George Carlin, and I also believe that knowing how to use language correctly is important so I think he has a point. Then again, he also threw in the regional jab as well, so maybe it is 50/50.

I think I am just used to CZroe and Ichinsan mucking up threads from their repeated derailing of the Hume thread, and other grammar nazi annoyances. Kind of funny to see it going the other way.
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Happy to oblige:
"Boo-koo" in ABQ, NM (spoken by a Mexican gangster, character, no less):
http://youtu.be/ekAReg13GZ8?t=20m30s
"Boo-zshee" in California (urbanized parody of a provincial France setting):
https://youtu.be/AJzds6fRfjM

Hard to believe he'd even heard it and assumed it was slang specific to the south. Seriously: he needs to get out more.
 
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SZLiao214 said:
Anyone ever think that the folks on all this government assistance live better than a lot of us full time working people?
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No they don't. They are losers. Unless sitting at home broke eating free food in a free house with 3 kids running around watching judge judy is a life. They generally have a lot of nasty cheap food and multiple large tvs though. A lot have a beat up luxury car. Its disgusting, I work in rental property I see it every day. We need to stop supporting these losers so they die and stop having kids.
 
Maybe I'm crazy but I'd have more respect for a guy robbing me with a gun over these losers taking my hard earned money blindly. Atleast the robber is working and hes gotta hope I don't get to my piece and blast him first.
 
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