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Author Topic: What I learned today!  (Read 194968 times)

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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2220 on: May 06, 2012, 10:23:53 AM »

when the wall between mirror dimensions begins to thin, where the fuck do you THINK they're going to go?
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2221 on: May 06, 2012, 11:59:55 AM »

Think of it as a chance to assimilate them.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2222 on: May 06, 2012, 12:10:19 PM »

Redirect new users to Wrath, maybe we can get some active people.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2223 on: May 06, 2012, 07:26:09 PM »

Turns out, two small poodles can make good headway in a loaf of bread. Little tossers.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2224 on: May 08, 2012, 04:34:52 PM »

Too bad ya didn't learn about the Caps Lock key. That's probably far too ordinary.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2225 on: May 09, 2012, 05:38:16 PM »

I learned that I have a lot more rights as a tenant in Ontario than I was previously aware. Perhaps enough so that I may not have to move.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2226 on: May 09, 2012, 06:01:46 PM »

That's good! Was it stuff about her not giving enough notice, or what?

Also, you may wish to move anyway, because if you're just in a house (basement apartment, etc.), then it can get really awkward to be on bad terms with the landlord. But this will hopefully give you a reasonable time to find something else that works.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2227 on: May 09, 2012, 06:07:53 PM »

Staying until you CAN move might be the best choice in this matter. Being in, say, a job where you're unwanted by your superiors is a terrible, tedious thing. I can only imagine how living where you're unwanted by the management would be.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2228 on: May 09, 2012, 06:35:32 PM »

That's good! Was it stuff about her not giving enough notice, or what?

No, it's more "fulltime students only" wasn't in the rental agreement, and it's too spurious a reason to evict me.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2229 on: May 09, 2012, 07:02:46 PM »

What the fuck is up with these landlords? Don't landlords usually hate fulltime students by virtue of them being drunken louts?
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2230 on: May 09, 2012, 07:47:21 PM »

That's good! Was it stuff about her not giving enough notice, or what?

No, it's more "fulltime students only" wasn't in the rental agreement, and it's too spurious a reason to evict me.

Okay, that's fair, but you said your lease was up for renewal... Maybe she can legitimately choose not to renew?

EDIT: Well, here's some pertinent sections in the Ontario rental regulations:

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Renewal of a Lease Term

The landlord and tenant can agree to extend or renew the tenancy on the same terms and conditions, or on modified terms and conditions. If both parties can’t reach an agreement, once the lease expires, the tenancy automatically becomes a month-to-month arrangement.

Terminating a Tenancy (Lease): Notice and Timing

Prior to a lease terminating, it is the responsibility of landlord and tenant to re-negotiate terms or terminate the lease. Tenants can give notice during a fixed term lease, provided that the date of termination is not any earlier than the last day of the tenancy. Landlords may only terminate a tenancy for specified reasons as set out in the legislation and cannot terminate simply because a fixed term has expired. When a fixed term tenancy goes to a month to month term, the landlord cannot force a tenant to sign another lease or agree to another fixed term. When a lease is renewed, unless otherwise agreed, other than the new term of the lease, all other conditions of the lease remain the same with the exception of rent increases, which are not automatically carried forward. The landlord can raise the rent with 90 days written notice.

Landlords must provide notice in writing to the tenant, and required notice times vary depending on the reasons for the notice. Please refer to the detailed online and print brochures: "Terminating a Tenancy by a Tenant" and "Reasons for Terminating a Tenancy by a Landlord".

The tenant can terminate daily or weekly tenancies with 28 days written notice. Otherwise tenants must give 60 days notice when moving.

The list of reasons a landlord can request eviction is listed in full here.

That said, again, it may be worth getting out of there before things get too hairy. She claims she wants to rent to students, so as long as you vacate before the fall, she'll be able to do so (which is really the issue - if you stay until, say October, she may well lose the school year).

A lot of how you proceed here depends on how much of a Queen Bitch she is. If you want to rules-lawyer this to the hilt, you can file various appeals and probably stay there for months on end if not a lot longer - if I interpret this right, simple termination of the lease if no grounds for eviction at all, and neither is "change of rental clientele". But it's better to just get out once you have some breathing room.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2231 on: May 09, 2012, 07:54:10 PM »

If relations are neutral, I would suggest asking first for an arrangement to stay X extra months (where X is enough time to save an extra month's rent to get you over the first & last hump - if you gave first & last here, don't forget that your last month with her will be rent-free).

If she says no, you can then start quoting chapter and verse of the residential tenancies act, but explain again that you're not trying to be a dick, you just need the time to find other arrangements and will (try to?) get out before [date]. She may grudgingly accept this.

If she still pitches a fit, then it'll have to be bunker mode.

An important question: What is the average rent for your type of apartment in St. Catherines? And how long will it take you to save that much? Is the place you are at now significantly above or below average market rent for your area?
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2232 on: May 09, 2012, 08:25:56 PM »

That's good! Was it stuff about her not giving enough notice, or what?

No, it's more "fulltime students only" wasn't in the rental agreement, and it's too spurious a reason to evict me.

Okay, that's fair, but you said your lease was up for renewal... Maybe she can legitimately choose not to renew?

Well, here's the thing: My room rental agreement is dated from May 1, 2009, to April 30, 2010. After that there was technically no extension of the lease, except for my landlady stopping by and asking if I was going to stay another year. I think I'm on a pay-per-month basis since I was never made to sign anything.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2233 on: May 10, 2012, 05:25:45 AM »

The bars on the rat cage we bought are in fact too far apart! I was up at 6:30 this morning performing a Rat Rescue, hoping to retrieve the wayward critter before a) it discovered the dog door leading outside or b) the dog discovered a chasable squeaky toy that stopped squeaking after one or two chews.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2234 on: May 15, 2012, 10:41:54 AM »

Wait.

You're telling me that sandwiches are named after the Earl of Sandwich, who asked for meat between two slices of bread so he wouldn't have to interrupt a card game to eat with a fork and knife?
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2235 on: May 15, 2012, 10:49:49 AM »

I'm always surprised when I find out people don't know that, because it's one of those "Cliche one-sentence stories of history", but then I remember that unless you've actually heard the story, it's not exactly an intuitive origin. 

Anyway... Today I learned that the INCREDIBLY CREEPY noises the Ghasts make in Minecraft are actually recordings of the Mojang sound guy's cat meowing, played backwards.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2236 on: May 15, 2012, 10:59:51 AM »

I'm always surprised when I find out people don't know that, because it's one of those "Cliche one-sentence stories of history"

Well, to the point that it sounds FAKE.  Like something out of Peabody's Improbable History.  Or that story my high school history teacher told me about "fuck" being an acronym for "fornication under consent of the king".

In hindsight, given that he actually spoke German fluently, I'm sure he must have known that was bullshit and the word is Germanic in origin.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2237 on: May 15, 2012, 11:32:35 AM »

That Small Pox killed off between 90-95% of the Native Americas population before the Pilgrims even showed up. That's an astounding number of dead people I never heard about in school.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2238 on: May 15, 2012, 11:50:25 AM »

That Small Pox killed off between 90-95% of the Native Americas population before the Pilgrims even showed up. That's an astounding number of dead people I never heard about in school.

Just after, really, Europeans being the introduction of smallpox to the Western hemisphere. But yeah, all the trouble with the natives those settlers had? Could have literally been twenty times worse.
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Re: What I learned today!
« Reply #2239 on: May 15, 2012, 12:59:26 PM »

I've known the Sandwich story years but I still don't really believe it.  Wrapping meat in some kind cereal good is such an ancient practice that I refuse to believe it took thousands of years for someone to think of doing it to bread.
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