So Twitter is being sold to an individual. Our favorite Very Rich South African Guy is only interested in owning businesses that are in the middle, that become part of the infrastructure, that allow conveyance of things from point A to point B, that earn a constant flow of cash by rent seeking wherever possible. …
Tag Archives: rent
Force Over Distance
2020 keeps fucking delivering. Last month, I called my landlord to renew my lease. It was then that he let me know, sotto voce, they’re only doing month-to-month from now on, and the reason is because the private owner of this 44-unit complex has been in a year-long contract for sale to a corporate owner, …
Domicile Destination
Conundrum: stay in current apartment, sign a 12-month lease extension for the same rent stay in current apartment, sign a 6-month lease extension for $50 more move within a month into not-shitty apartment for roughly $100 more (at current market value) on a (hypothetically) better 1BR apartment in this area. Hmm.
Movement for Warmth
So the apartment management saw fit to install a new central heater unit. After a week of having to use space heaters to keep the place thawed, the service techs came around Friday morning to cut down the old unit (vintage 1978) and replace the whole thing with a new one. They were even nice …