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From: marla@ssc-vax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: re: Rental Housing...
Message-ID: <130@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-May-84 16:30:43 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  4 16:30:43 1984
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[give this bug to my last landlord!!!!]

Robert Binstock says:

> My advice:  If you want to stay in California -- where "personal
> freedom" and "property" are the great sacred cows, where one third of
> the drivers are allowed to be uninsured because, after all, "it's their
> car, so they have the right to drive it" -- don't expect any improvement
> in the rental situation.  Learn to live with it. 
>
> If you can't stand it, move to Boston, New York, or any other place
> where social maturity has triumphed over the paranoid worship of
> "property".

Well, I have a few things to respond!

New York ain't so hot!!  Neither is Washington State!  I have had
apartments in both, and as a tennant, you have almost no rights at
all!  I went to college in NY.  I rented an apartment with a couple
of friends.  The apartment was an old house that had been converted
into 3 apartments.  The owner was a divorced woman, who had received
the house as part of the divorce settlement.  She was totally
incompetant at managing it.  All she knew how to do was collect the
rent!  She never wanted (or cared) if something broke. Then I moved
to Washngton State.  Supposedly one of the better places to live!
Hah!  We currently rent a very expensive apartment.  The building
was origionally built to be sold as ~$80,000 + condo's.  But they
didn't sell, for a lot of reasons.  Anyway, we recently got notified
that the owners were coming to inspect their property and would be
coming through the apartments sometime over a 3 day period.  If we
wanted to be there, we would have had to stay at home for that
entire period!  We could not require them to wait until one of us
got home,or even give us a specific time of their inspection! (they had 
given us 3 days notification!   

Well, our system is coming down in 10 minutes, so I'll wrap this up!

Marla S. Baer
ssc-vax!marla