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Posted on October 2 at 3:25 p.m.
You have to be smarter than the computer..........
This type of thing (phishing) is going on all over the country, please be careful when giving out your info. No bank will email you for your private information. Always go to their main page first. If there is a problem with your access, you'll get a message when you try to log in. Then, look up the phone number in the phone book and call them. Don't take the phone number off the (scam) email sent to you.
K
Posted on October 2 at 2:30 p.m.
create~We own on the campus of UW Madison (WI) and believe me, we have NO idea who the parents of these kids are. And, if we did find them, "it's not my responsibility".
Our "profits" after repairs/taxes/non-payment/loan payments, etc is minimal. The true profit we have is the equity building in the properties.
Did you know you can squeeze 100 underage kids into a 2 bdrm flat all for the low, low price of $2 per plastic cup? Just make sure you do it the weekend before you move out so you don't have to live with the stale beer and burned (cigarette) carpeting for too long.
On Bad housing
Posted on October 2 at 8:46 a.m.
Landlords definately need to be held to a higher standard, however the tenants need to understand that they are also part of the problem. My family owns many college campus located rentals (different city). We get young people in who stay one year and trash the heck out of a place and then leave behind their crap for us to deal with. We've gone into apts a week after they left and found their pets left behind!
Carpet, drywall, broken toilets, et al all cost money and we have to try to average that out and figure out what to charge for rent.
If a tenant would move in, take care of the place, and leave it in good condition for the next person.........we would wholeheartedly keep up repairs and fix problems. It gets disheartening to see how people take care of places though.
We are at the point of selling most of the properties to be developed into high rise/expensive condos that no student will ever be able to afford.
Fix the landlords sure, but fix the tenants while you are at it and you've got a win/win situation. Believe me, the one month security deposit will NOT cover most of the damages left behind.
On Bad housing
Posted on October 2 at 8:43 a.m.
Landlords definately need to be held to a higher standard, however the tenants need to understand that they are also part of the problem. My family owns many college campus located rentals (different city). We get young people in who stay one year and trash the heck out of a place and then leave behind their crap for us to deal with. We've gone into apts a week after they left and found their pets left behind!
Carpet, drywall, broken toilets, et al all cost money and we have to try to average that out and figure out what to charge for rent.
If a tenant would move in, take care of the place, and leave it in good condition for the next person.........we would wholeheartedly keep up repairs and fix problems. It gets disheartening to see how people take care of places though.
We are at the point of selling most of the properties to be developed into high rise/expensive condos that no student will ever be able to afford.
Fix the landlords sure, but fix the tenants while you are at it and you've got a win/win situation. Believe me, the one month security deposit will NOT cover most of the damages left behind.
On More Muscle
Posted on October 1 at 8:26 a.m.
DT~I'm so thankful that your relative is safe...what a traumatic experience for her! My condolences on your loss of Mary. Thank you for clearing up some of the details on the case.
Posted on September 28 at 2:31 p.m.
the coordinator might have had the checkbook, but the older woman might have had a supply of her own checks too. ???? Also, the coordinator could have the checks because they cleared the bank and the bank gave them to the coordinator. That's the other explanation I can come up with (I'm a banker).
I can't believe they would be paroled so soon after a murder??? How horrible!
Posted on September 28 at 12:37 p.m.
From the way it reads:
This was a woman PRETENDING to be a home health worker and the elderly woman wrote the checks (herself) under duress. Even if she had written 100 checks out, how would the REAL coordinator even know until they cleared the bank? Then, she probably doesn't balance everyone's statement on a daily basis....who has time for that?
Thank goodness for the alert employee at the retail store. Everyone with an adult friend or family member really needs to be on top of what's going on in the lives of the dependent adult. There are too many crooks willing to scam them out of money.
Posted on September 27 at 3:56 p.m.
blu~no, that's o.k., I didn't take it wrong at all, but there is a big difference between having your info stolen by a general fraudster and a bank employee. The bank employee "pretends" to verify info and it would go undetected until the customer opens their statement and calls the bank to see why their deposit isn't there. I would imagine the bank would reimburse the customer in the case of employee theft. I know ours would......
We once got a letter that a computer at Wells Fargo had been stolen and my husband's private info was in their computer (student loan) and could potentially be used in a fraud case. WF paid for us to sign up for a year of monthly credit reports and fraud alerts. A good company will go out of their way to make up for their problems, but the human nature (theft) is one you can't predict. Where there is a will, there is a way.
Posted on September 27 at 3:36 p.m.
create~It really is in the cc best interest to monitor unusual activity, plus it kept you as it's customer. It's nice you had a responsible cc. company.
I used my cc to rent a hotel room while traveling for a family funeral. A few days later, my cc co. called to ask me if we had purchased $5000 worth of computer supplies off the internet. We said no, they rejected the transaction, closed my card, gave me a new one, and had no problems since. I did put an alert on my report though.......just in case.
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Posted on October 3 at 8:17 a.m.
I distinctly remember being trapped in my mother's car while smoke swirled around my head. I developed asthma as a child and she is still in denial. But, it's a great excuse for me to forbid her to smoke in my house or around my children. She also now smokes outside (on a nice deck) at her own house.
My town is not smoke-free, but two of the restaurants are smoke free by choice. Those are the ones I frequent and I make sure they know that's the reason (and the good food). A bar is a bar and I expect it to be smoky. I don't like it, so I stay away. We also have one bar in town that is smoke free by choice, so I go there.
I'd rather see establishments choose to be sf than for it to be dictated by gov't.
Kristie
On Smoke-free needed