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upon moving into my new apartment, the first thing i purchased to furnish it was a fire extinguisher, which is currently hanging neatly just adjacent of mt front door. as someone who's lived in college-town houses run by absolute slum lords for the better part of a decade, i've ran into my fair share (to put it lightly) of situations that could have ended up being massive fire hazards. an electric cable right next to a corner of the house that's seen considerable water damage that no one's gonna do anything about since your landlord is a cheapskate and you're broke as fuck, an electric stove where one of the burners isn't connected right and that somehow causes sparks to fly around smack dab next to wherever the closest adjacent electrical outlet is whenever your roommate tries to heat up some soup or something and forgets that he's using the burner everyone told him not to, a roommate walking into your house drunk as all hell and then making some macaroni but then falling asleep on the couch halfway through... there's just so many situations you, as a person no matter what walk of life you're on, could easily solve (or at least maybe ameliorate) if you had a fire extinguisher at the ready at all times.
buy one today! they're only a little over $30 (plus shipping) on amazon! you have absolutely No excuse not to!
Jan 19, 2024
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my apt caught on fire and i’m glad i had it
Dec 21, 2024
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I’m happy renting my little place that lacks all those things, but a man can dream!
Over the past year or so I’ve been able to get some nice furniture, and prints from my favorite photographers. And it’s almost always quiet here. And the rent is affordable. It’s quite great here, in fact!
Jan 26, 2025
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1. check streeteasy every day bc new listings go up very frequently
2. go on tours as soon as possible / as frequently as possible
3. send in an application as soon as possible (like ideally on / immediately after the tours)
4. *research the apartment.* make sure it’s rent stabilized, check ownership + rent history, sometimes there are landlord / property manager databases that are worth looking into, or you will likely have to move again very soon
there’s a housing crisis in the city rn so if you don’t move quickly enough someone else is going to get the apartment, being the first application in the pile 90% of the time is the only way to get a lease (provided everything else is in order)
Mar 23, 2024
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"typing this out", instead of "this," essentially. every grammar lesson that's ever been taught since modern english came around will tell you that the latter is the only proper way to be technically "correct" in your writing, but it's always peeved me how whenever i put a series of words into quotation marks, i always want them to act as their own standalone statement with sentiment that starts and ends with said quotation marks, and imo the insertion of a comma that stands as a part of the sentence around that in between that serves to just completely disrupt whatever meaning i intend behind it. maybe if everyone starts doing this, the whole paradigm would be shifted!!!
also, long run-on sentences are pretty chill too
Jan 22, 2024
