EllenMarie wrote:We have a girl we know from our old school,she had twins so ended up with a surprise 5 kids. So a new landlord bought her duplex and the property manager told her you are one child over than what they had in the contract,their house is a fire hazard with boxes all over(bc of twins they did not have time to unpack when they moved in so things in boxes still and only essentials out),the dog that was allowed before is no longer allowed with this new landlord so they had til the last of Dec to move out and her dh just got injured on the job when a vehicle rammed his security truck and he was pinned under the wheel and broke his back. So cannot work-she had a terrible Christmas and was so stressed out but the landlord would not extend-it was actually the property management and it was bc they really wanted her out to fix the place up and increase the rent even more. So she had to look at a faraway city for even cheaper rent! So over here people have a hard time finding affordable housing!
I have an acquaintance from HS whose DH has Parkinson's. They made the request of their landlord (in AZ), asking him to renovate the bathroom in the house they'd been renting for 20 years (ok, an aside - who RENTS for 20 YEARS?!?) to make it ADA compliant.
The landlord evicted them instead.
I'm fuzzy on how that's even LEGAL. He could have just said "no," and been done with it, leaving them to make up their own minds about staying vs. going but... That said, I'm not sure how great they are at making their rent on time, keeping the place up, etc., as even before he was sick he was lazy as sin and she's always had issues with focus.
As for CA rent... I'd never live in CA. I've been spoiled, I guess, by always living in far more COL-friendly areas, but if I'd lived in CA it would only have been long enough to find another job and get out of there. While I guess a few Californians could and do relocate in favor of lower COL, right now I suppose wherever you can find work, that wins
. As soon as I retired, though, bam, sell the house and get out. The middle of the country is cheaper on the whole than either coast. Many would argue it's not as pretty (its not, I crave a beach), but it's livable.
In my neighborhood, where there are many an immigrant family from a specific Asian country (I wonder what the prez's people would think out here) living here specifically for the quality of the local public schools, there are families sharing houses, and even in 4 bedroom houses I don't know how they're putting up ALL those children, even bunkbeds don't make that kind of volume comfortable, and I know it looks odd to those of us less accustomed to communal multi-generational living. I imagine it makes things a lot more affordable, though. The only problem I have with it is they tend to butcher chickens (I am not kidding, we can't raise poultry here in city limits but they're getting the birds from somewhere in bulk) in the garage with a hose running and I can't see how that's great for the runoff water system. Not sure the public works people are aware. I don't care if you want to pluck your own chickens, whatever rocks your boat, but as a vegetarian having to jump the runoff while out for a walk skeeves me out and as someone has a line on the water bill for what is that... surface & runoff water? something like that, it makes me wonder how that's handled properly. I also wonder what they do with the feathers.