Another DUmp beggar.

[Carl]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027038752

Mon Aug 3, 2015, 01:51 PM

Star Member AtomicKitten (43,031 posts)

Dear DU: I need a bit of help.
$764 worth of help. I have written before about how my rent was raised $500 a month. I’ve lived in the same place for 10 years without my rent being raised, so I really don’t have much to complain about. I’ve been strategically job-hopping over the last several months seeking better and better-paying work. The medical transcription field is highly competitive; there were over 1,000 applicants for my current job, and I think this one’s a keeper. It’s been a tough last several months. I’ve been working 7 days a week, but when August 1st rolled around I confidently wrote the rent check. What had fallen through the cracks in my strategy was the concomitant raise in required deposit, but I thought I had more time to put that together. My landlord was quite adamant in a cryptic email that he wants it by Thursday, all of it. I contacted a landlord-tenant mediation service who advised me the email notice of rent increase that mentions the increase in deposit was sufficient notice. So, I pulled up my socks and sold my car and my grandmother’s walnut armoire over the weekend, the latter particularly tough to part with. I was hoping to get more for my car. I bought it new in 1997 and it had only 71,573 miles on it. But something is really only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. Although I was able to raise most of the money I need, I find myself $764 short. My ultimate plan is to get the hell out of Dodge, but that will take months of saving and planning to move. The landlord-tenant people told me if I pay this now, it gives me one year before the landlord can do anything else. That time frame I can work with. There are others here that need help currently and I don’t want to detract from their plight, but I am almost there. The implied threat from my landlord has me reeling this morning. If any of you are able and inclined to help me, I would appreciate it more than words can express. It’s been a long road getting back on my feet, but I’m almost there. I have had the flu since last Wednesday with a low grade (100.8) temperature, feel like absolute crap, but I’m diving into my work right now. I will pop back in later if anyone has any questions. Thank you for reading this. Cheers.

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Honestly skins,your site is becoming nothing but a grifter place.
Don`t you realize it is cutting into your vacation fund?

[franksolich]

Hmmmm.

The primitive's lived in the same place 10 years, and the landlord won't give a break on the new deposit (more time to put it together)?

That raises a big red flag; either the primitive's lying about having lived there 10 years, or the primitive wants the money for something else, maybe drugs.

[GOBUCKS]

Honestly skins,your site is becoming nothing but a grifter place.
Don`t you realize it is cutting into your vacation fund?

Skimmer wants nothing to do with the DUmp. He's content to let the lunatics run the place while Lord Marblehead sleeps and elusive enigmatic Elad takes care of daily tech stuff.

Skimmer just monitors his bank account, bangs Little Skim's Honduran nanny, and attends Hildebeast cocktail parties.

The only way he'll get involved is if the grifting begins cutting into his Valentine heart sales or other income streams.

So far, scams like TorchTheWitch have diverted only a few hundred DUmmybucks. Skimmer deals in tens and hundreds of thousands.

[BannedFromDU]

     Sayeth J.J. Hunsecker: this requires investigation.

Mon Aug 3, 2015, 01:51 PM

Star Member AtomicKitten (43,031 posts) <--- actually confers some degree of credibility

Dear DU: I need a bit of help.

$764 worth of help. (Sounds like a do-able number, on its face...

I have written before about how my rent was raised $500 a month.(Then wouldn't you need monthly help?)

I’ve lived in the same place for 10 years without my rent being raised, so I really don’t have much to complain about. (I don't believe a rent would have stayed the same over 10 years.)

 I’ve been strategically job-hopping over the last several months seeking better and better-paying work.(Likely not voluntarily)

The medical transcription field is highly competitive; there were over 1,000 applicants for my current job, and I think this one’s a keeper. (Let's call this Statement A)

 It’s been a tough last several months. I’ve been working 7 days a week, (And this Statement B. Statement A does not follow from Statement B.)

but when August 1st rolled around I confidently wrote the rent check. What had fallen through the cracks in my strategy was the concomitant raise in required deposit, (it defies reason that a rent increase weighed on your mind, but a deposit assessment didn't)

 but I thought I had more time to put that together.

 My landlord was quite adamant in a cryptic email (Adamant yet cryptic? Nonsense.)


 that he wants it by Thursday, all of it. (You received a dunning notice, the timing of which means that you received others, which you ignored.)

 I contacted a landlord-tenant mediation service who advised me the email notice of rent increase that mentions the increase in deposit was sufficient notice.(Curiously, you don't tell DU how long you were in receipt of said email)

 So, I pulled up my socks and sold my car and my grandmother’s walnut armoire over the weekend, the latter particularly tough to part with.(Translation: you realized they were serious)


 I was hoping to get more for my car. I bought it new in 1997 and it had only 71,573 miles on it. But something is really only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. (And you needed to sell it tout suite. Fail to plan; plan to fail.)


 Although I was able to raise most of the money I need, I find myself $764 short. (Not an insurmountable amount, all told)


 My ultimate plan is to get the hell out of Dodge, but that will take months of saving and planning to move. (Plus the time it will take to repay the money you're begging for now, right?)

The landlord-tenant people told me if I pay this now, it gives me one year before the landlord can do anything else. That time frame I can work with. There are others here that need help currently and I don’t want to detract from their plight, but I am almost there. (Then you DO wish to detract from them, which is no blame.)


The implied threat from my landlord has me reeling this morning.(It sounds more than implied.)

 If any of you are able and inclined to help me, I would appreciate it more than words can express.(Maybe if you offered, to, oh, repay them with interest?)

 It’s been a long road getting back on my feet, but I’m almost there. I have had the flu since last Wednesday with a low grade (100.8) temperature, feel like absolute crap, but I’m diving into my work right now. I will pop back in later if anyone has any questions. Thank you for reading this. Cheers.(Now THAT'S CRYPTIC. In any case, what does your stupid fever have to do with anything? )

No one sells their car to pay rent unless something more serious is going on.

Give at your own peril, DUmmies.

[franksolich]

I'm also wondering if a certain two-letter word wasn't deliberately left out.

"to"

Such as ".....my rent was raised to $500 a month....."

Unless the radioactive cat lives the Skippyesque life-style with a Skippy-sized paycheck, I can't see her dealing with a $500 increase in rent.

[franksolich]

I'm also wondering if a certain two-letter word wasn't deliberately left out.

"to"

Such as ".....my rent was raised to $500 a month....."

Unless the radioactive cat lives the Skippyesque life-style with a Skippy-sized paycheck, I can't see her dealing with a $500 increase in rent.

Well, okay, I might be wrong.

daredtowork (3,205 posts)    Mon Aug 3, 2015, 02:23 PM

4. If I Remember Correctly
 
If I remember correctly, AtomicKitten lives in San Francisco, and landlords have been aggressive there about creating excuses for eviction so they can raise rents to what is now an outrageous market rate. The bad news this rent spike is all over the Bay Area and it's genuinely hard to find anywhere to move: the people in the biggest crunch are working people who don't qualify for any programs for "affordable housing".

Here is a map of evictions in San Francisco.

http://www.antievictionmappingproject.net/evictionsurge.html

The same project traced how evictions followed tech bus stops (the infamous "Google bus") in 2013:

http://www.antievictionmappingproject.net/techbusevictions.html

If you live in the Bay Area, some housing leads might help in this situation. 

[BannedFromDU]

Well, okay, I might be wrong.

      Don't look to the beggar to clarify a damned thing for you. In the meanwhile, suppose she does live in San Fran. What the hell is a medical coder doing there, where rents are through the roof? Makes no sense. Also, I don't believe for a single second that someone would sell their car and furniture, yet would only need $700 one time to be whole. Bullshit. Something else is happening.

[obumazombie]

Why do they have to ask for "help".
They should ask honestly and say that they are begging for a donation.
Otherwise some sagacious person will conclude they would be less "helping" and more enabling if they did make the mistake of rewarding the beggar begging for a donation.

[DUmpsterDiver]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10409766

That was her first sly appeal in April.  Why the dummy doesn't just bum the cash from her rich son in SF raises a big flag.  Maybe he does not approve of her spending?

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10409766

That was her first sly appeal in April.  Why the dummy doesn't just bum the cash from her rich son in SF raises a big flag.  Maybe he does not approve of her spending?

So, based upon that ancient thread, she had all this time to prepare for it.

[sharkhawk]

Star Member AtomicKitten (43,031 posts) <--- actually confers some degree of credibility

Dear DU: I need a bit of help.

The landlord-tenant people told me if I pay this now, it gives me one year before the landlord can do anything else. That time frame I can work with. There are others here that need help currently and I don’t want to detract from their plight, but I am almost there.

So does the DUmmie mean she isn't going to pay rent for a year?  That's usually what the DUmmies mean when they say they have a grace period, it will take that long for the landlord to evict due to non-payment of rent.

[GOBUCKS]

Reminds me of poor stupid Beth, the mother of Andyscam.

Evicted from her San Francisco deluxe apartment in the sky, she moved with her senile mother and two big smelly dogs into a little humpbacked camping trailer out in the California desert.

At last report, the county was about to evict her from the camper.

Too bad we don't hear from poor stupid Beth anymore.

She had some great storylines.