Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 I'll get a RH card because 3% across the board is enough that I'll stop bothering with my other stupid cards
I use it for everything, its good
general
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Replying to 🐝🌯🌯🌯💥 #march.7th Is that like your 100$ amd
Sold my AMD in 2022
So yeah, could have held, but I just put it all in Nvidia I think
I think my worst mistake ever was AVAX at ~$50 and holding it through all of its peaks
from that same-ish era Regi
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
from one store? of have you cleared out your entire state?
Pikachu is officially gone for the next few days, do not implode the internet while I am gone
Off to kill Rob
gl Pika
I will be going near Toronto
(and far beyond it)
Looking at apartments for september
I'm glad you're not just renting sight unseen
Good choice
I have a handful of viewing apointments booked, will probably end up just walking into places that have "for lease" while I am there too
but yeah, signing a 12 month lease without looking is insane
Keep us updated what weird non-smooth food you eat while you're traveling
It will be normal foods
Aparently kingston is fucked for housing and everything that is not a cockroach infested shithole is very expensive
my funding will cover something decent, but it sucks
idk if you need this advice Pika (and yes it is not a renters market rn)
but whatever you do, make sure you negotiate
super strict leasing companies, maybe have less leverage, but most people (especially if they own more units in the same building) will want renters like you, and if they think giving you a discount will get their unit filled 1-2 months earlier than it otherwise would have, they'll do it
I'll do what I can but a place is a place. The cattle of a specific breed as Josh would refer to them all rush to get apartments in august last minute, so if I do not get something now I will be competing with the hoard of undergrad students. My only upside is I am looking at 1 bedroom apartments, most undergrads will either be doing room rentals/bacholers, or multi bedroom with room mates.
People do that too, but not all people
smart people look earlier than last minute
do you know what to lookfor to identify roaches/bedbugs/mold Pika?
No I should look that up
you can just google it, but actually know the signs
yeah
and you don't have to be super anal, most buildings have had *some* form of water damage at some point
that's not that weird
but when you see signs of active issues, that's what to be wary of
proximity to train tracks/flight paths (occasional noise) are easy ways to save money, high traffic areas and bad parking as well tend to reduce cost
In kingston, basically everything is the main road with bus paths, it is primarily an old university town
yeah, ig it depends how big your search radius is
if there's 1-2 main roads all the apartments are on
I can't drive, so <40 minutes by bus is my radius lol
then I guess it maters less
All the walking distance apartments are slumtowers
apparently
I am going to end up 20-30 by bus, which is acceptable to me
I did do some prelim research of students complaining about which buildings were bad
I did not even include anything I saw complaints for on my shortlist for checking out
also, imo
write-off almost anything undergrad students say
also fair, I only wrote off ones where they had very exact complaints (there are cockroaches). I did not care about "management is not responsive" as much
that's less of a hard and fast rule, but I think you get a LOT of people who have never lived away from home before, and they project all of their shit onto their apartment/dorm/roomate
at least, when I was looking for undergrad housing, there were a lot of "don't live here" warnings for completely fine places
yeah what Polu said
None of the places I am doing have in suite laundry, I will check dishwasher though