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Blackdog 
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Posted on: Sep. 09 2012,6:05 pm |
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(This is my real name @ Sep. 09 2012,5:45 pm)
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(busybee @ Sep. 09 2012,1:59 am)
QUOTE Just buy your own place and live in it yourself if you don't want to be a renter or a landlord.  That's exactly what I did. Looking back on my renting days, I was blessed to have decent, reasonable landlords. Not everyone has that luxury. I knew someone who was renting a house. Eventually the basement filled up with water, to the point where they couldn't use it. The landlord never had time to come to fix it, so they sent him a check for half the rent and said they'd get the other half when they were once again able to use the other half of the house. He came and fixed it that day.
Never happened
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This is my real name
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Posted on: Sep. 09 2012,6:37 pm |
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(Blackdog @ Sep. 09 2012,6:05 pm)
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(This is my real name @ Sep. 09 2012,5:45 pm)
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(busybee @ Sep. 09 2012,1:59 am)
QUOTE Just buy your own place and live in it yourself if you don't want to be a renter or a landlord. That's exactly what I did. Looking back on my renting days, I was blessed to have decent, reasonable landlords. Not everyone has that luxury. I knew someone who was renting a house. Eventually the basement filled up with water, to the point where they couldn't use it. The landlord never had time to come to fix it, so they sent him a check for half the rent and said they'd get the other half when they were once again able to use the other half of the house. He came and fixed it that day. Never happened
Yes it did. Truman Thrond was their landlord.
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busybee
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Posted on: Sep. 09 2012,11:44 pm |
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I'm just saying that if you look hard enough, you can buy your own place,,,yet it all depends upon what motivates you do it.
For me, it was offering my children stability and privacy, even as a single parent. With four children to raise on my own without any financial support from their other parent...it would have been easier financially for me to enter into the low income housing available, but instead I choose my kids and their right to have someplace to call home that no one else dictates their lives or mine for that matter because of crappy and nosy neighbors who wouldn't be able to tolerate giggling or sibling disputes from living in an apartment complex.
Furthermore...I don't have to worry about whether or not Mr. or Ms. Nosy thinks I'm cheating the system even though the themselves are because they don't have anything better to do with their lives than to create assumptions about all others instead of doing something productive to improve their own lives.
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This is my real name
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Posted on: Sep. 10 2012,6:14 am |
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(busybee @ Sep. 09 2012,11:44 pm)
QUOTE I'm just saying that if you look hard enough, you can buy your own place,,,yet it all depends upon what motivates you do it.
For me, it was offering my children stability and privacy, even as a single parent. With four children to raise on my own without any financial support from their other parent...it would have been easier financially for me to enter into the low income housing available, but instead I choose my kids and their right to have someplace to call home that no one else dictates their lives or mine for that matter because of crappy and nosy neighbors who wouldn't be able to tolerate giggling or sibling disputes from living in an apartment complex.
Furthermore...I don't have to worry about whether or not Mr. or Ms. Nosy thinks I'm cheating the system even though the themselves are because they don't have anything better to do with their lives than to create assumptions about all others instead of doing something productive to improve their own lives.
Self-motivation is a wonderful thing. Kudos.
From what I've heard over the years from various people who have lived in low-income multi-tenant dwellings, they're even worse than you described. Pits of despair and self-entitlement, resenting anyone who tries to climb out of it.
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busybee
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Posted on: Sep. 14 2012,1:42 am |
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Thank you...This is my real name!
I would agree with you...there is a lot of resentment out there and a whole lot of assumptions!
I respectfully attempt to disregard anyone on this forum.because they assume to know me better than I know myself, what motivates me and how much effort I apply myself to living a productive life today, just because I disclosed that my children and I have survived domestic abuse/violence in the past.
I do that for my children mostly because today is no different than yesterday and tomorrow has now become less likely for them to have any HOPE that they will ever KNOW what it's like to have TWO equally motivated parents instead of just ONE parent who thinks of them before anyone, including themselves.
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