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[quote=Hatfield][quote=HLS]Some landlords prefer a tenant who is always late and pays late charges 😉
You are an ideal tenant only in your eyes….[/quote]
LOL, just like credit card companies.

I agree that it might make sense to try to contact the owner by pulling the property records and sending a letter to the address where the tax bills go. I would say something like: As you probably know, I’ve lived here for 7 years and I’m pretty happy living in this house, but I’m having X, Y, Z issues with the property manager. I’ve been unsuccessful, after many requests, to get the issues addressed or even acknowledged. I’m not sure whether you’re aware of these issues so i wanted to contact you directly. I am hoping we can get these resolved so I can keep living here.

If the landlord wanted you out, he’d probably just raise the rent, or not renew the lease. Really, if a landlord wants you to move along, there’s lots of subtle and not-so-subtle ways that will show. Based on what you’ve written, this sounds more like benign neglect. Property manager sucks, but landlord knows nothing because there’s no turnover and the checks keep coming.[/quote]

I wouldn’t even bother to try to bring up the living 7 years and eing a good tenant. I would simply bring it up things from the angle of “what’s in it for me?” as the property owner.

For example…

“Your house has a maintenance issue. The PM so far has been unresponsive to getting it fixed. I am contacting you because I am concerned that if this issue isn’t fixed, it could cause severe property damage to your property and expose you to unnecessary liability….”

When you contact the owner, you got to put it in there terms and think how they will think: “what’s in it for me?”

Mention (a) property damage and (b) liability, and leave off all the other personal things about how great you are as a tenant, because chances are they won’t give a shit about that.

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[quote=deadzone][quote=flu]Just move[/quote]

That’s what she said.

But it is pretty unprofessional and inappropriate for your property manager to tell you to move.

Point is I don’t want to move. This lady’s inability to manage some minor repair work in my house has turned her into a nut job.[/quote]

I suggested to move so you can avoid the headache, since it appears she isn’t going to be changing anytime soon.

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[quote=5yearwaiter][quote=flu]Ok… So I discussed this issue with a few friends, and went ahead and called a few stealers and some subcontracted car rental places and BMW of North America.

My first go around resulted in the following information:

1. BMW is offering to give people affected by this recall a rental car for up to $55/day, rented on a per month basis. You have visit a dealer, and sign a bunch of paperwork, and agree that you will not drive your affected car until after it has been repaired.

2. There is no concrete ETA on when the airbag modules will be available, but some of the dealerships are saying that for us (California), it will most likely be 2017, since priority will be given to people in humid climates.

3. No injury/death has occurred in any BMW’s (yet) as a result of this problem. Keyword is yet.

4. There currently is a stop sales on all preowned BMWs affected by this recall. Dealerships are not allowed to sell any preowned BMW with this issue.

#4 has interesting implications for folks planning to do a trade in…

Apparently, Honda and Toyota have a similar thing going on, because the fleet rental agency I called in Carlsbad referred me to the fleet office in Encinitas and Clairemont, because they said the Carlsbad one deals more of the rentals from toyota and honda customers.

So if you are affected by this recall, you have to ask/insist before they give it to you.

Hmm. A free rental until 2017. No maintenance, no repairs on wear and tear items on the rental, unlimited mileage… and if you own multiple cars, you can temporarily stop your insurance on the recalled car that you won’t be driving. (Your insurance policy probably says for a car rental, any policy on any car would cover the rental, like mine does..)….When I have time, I’m going to be calling BMW NA to ask to see if they’ll offer a direct reimbursement to me and/or to see if there’s any comps from #4 as a result of accelerated depreciation…not that I was going to ever trade my car in.[/quote]

More update on this : I called BMW Encinitas and they de brief that this is only precautionary but not much of anything danger. Upon asking the other alternative if I am not feeling comfortable to drive my car until the airbag removed, and I openly asked what alternative we can get, then very inconveniently brought up the point they can give $48 max and that is also from Enterprise Rental car. I am not really understand why this kind of bind over with particular rental company? Why not even they allow us to rent some good cars with the same amount of money they are ready to give and sure we do get few better cars from others with the same money.
I am not sure whom we can reach out to finalize this issue.[/quote]

Actually, I didn’t want to name dealerships but when I called 3 of the 4 dealerships here in SD, that one was the only one that initially didn’t give me an honest answer. They told me “not to worry”. BMW of SD was the first one to mention that I didn’t feel comfortable driving my own car, BMW NA has a rental reimbursement program and they explained to me how it works. What’s interesting is that BMW NA is saying $55/day, while as some dealers are saying anywhere between $44-48. So….. maybe this is something you want to take up with BMW NA directly.

Here was the detail of the financial aid package thrown at the dealers… You might get a better package if you deal with BMW NA directly. Haven’t tried (yet)…
http://www.autonews.com/article/20160321/RETAIL07/303219967/bmw-readies-financial-aid-for-dealers-hobbled-by-takata-recall

“There are many plans in the making to help our customers and our dealers get through the recall,” a BMW spokesman said. “We understand the urgency, and the details are being finalized as quickly as possible.”

In addition to loaner vehicles, BMW is expected to authorize dealers to use vehicles from rental fleets and reimburse them up to $55 a day for those vehicles, according to a source briefed on the matter.

In the February notice, BMW advised dealers that customers with recalled vehicles from the 2012 model year and newer be put into loaner vehicles and “customers with [2011 model and older] … vehicles may be offered off-lease loaners in lieu of a rental vehicle.”

BMW also is paying dealers additional money for 2016 models they put into the loaner fleet to aid with the recall: $1,500 for 2-series, X1 and i3 REx extended-range vehicles; $3,000 for 3- and 4-series models; $4,000 for X3 and X4 crossovers; and $4,500 for the 5-series sedan and X5 and X6 crossovers.

The recall support allowances “will help to offset both registration and depreciation expenses,” for the service loaner vehicles, BMW told dealers in the February notice.

BMW has told dealers it also will pay between $400 and $650 a month — depending on the vehicle and its age — in floorplan assistance.

The company also will pay $300 for the inspection of certified used vehicles and $200 for noncertified used vehicles once the stop-sale ends.

BMW is promising to “offer special low APR” rates on all affected 2012 and newer models after they are repaired.

In a related matter, Mercedes-Benz said it also is working out a reimbursement plan for dealers. Just 475 vehicles in dealer inventory have been affected by a stop-sale order because of the Takata recall, according to a Mercedes spokesman.

They include 2004-15 Mercedes vehicles and 2007-14 Daimler vans.

Mercedes-Benz USA will help dealers offset flooring and depreciation related to the recall, according to the spokesman. It also will allow dealers to take affected vehicles in on trade, he said.

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Just move

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[quote=HLS]Some landlords prefer a tenant who is always late and pays late charges 😉
You are an ideal tenant only in your eyes….

Do you have a lease OR month to month ?

You have rights. Contact the Consumer Affairs bureau.
I wouldn’t bother involving the owner. The PM represents them for a reason.

Is it worth it to you to have the work done at your expense?
Do you have any attorney friends who could write PM a letter ?
You could file a complaint with the Bureau of Real Estate
http://dre.ca.gov/Consumers/FileComplaint.html

A rental agreement is a contract.
You have legal remedies but
If the PM is an idiot you have limited options trying to
deal with them. Take it to the next level.

PS: You could win the battle but lose the war.[/quote]

I thought the legality of late fees in CA was challenged a few times…

http://www.caltenantlaw.com/LateFees.htm

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Ok… So I discussed this issue with a few friends, and went ahead and called a few stealers and some subcontracted car rental places and BMW of North America.

My first go around resulted in the following information:

1. BMW is offering to give people affected by this recall a rental car for up to $55/day, rented on a per month basis. You have visit a dealer, and sign a bunch of paperwork, and agree that you will not drive your affected car until after it has been repaired.

2. There is no concrete ETA on when the airbag modules will be available, but some of the dealerships are saying that for us (California), it will most likely be 2017, since priority will be given to people in humid climates.

3. No injury/death has occurred in any BMW’s (yet) as a result of this problem. Keyword is yet.

4. There currently is a stop sales on all preowned BMWs affected by this recall. Dealerships are not allowed to sell any preowned BMW with this issue.

#4 has interesting implications for folks planning to do a trade in…

Apparently, Honda and Toyota have a similar thing going on, because the fleet rental agency I called in Carlsbad referred me to the fleet office in Encinitas and Clairemont, because they said the Carlsbad one deals more of the rentals from toyota and honda customers.

So if you are affected by this recall, you have to ask/insist before they give it to you.

Hmm. A free rental until 2017. No maintenance, no repairs on wear and tear items on the rental, unlimited mileage… and if you own multiple cars, you can temporarily stop your insurance on the recalled car that you won’t be driving. (Your insurance policy probably says for a car rental, any policy on any car would cover the rental, like mine does..)….When I have time, I’m going to be calling BMW NA to ask to see if they’ll offer a direct reimbursement to me and/or to see if there’s any comps from #4 as a result of accelerated depreciation…not that I was going to ever trade my car in.

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[quote=spdrun]There’s an option to disconnect the fucking thing and install a 5-point. Who needs explosives in their face anyway?[/quote]

Have you even bothered to think about what you say?

Aside from a 5 point being impractical for daily driver use.

Using a 5 point harness in a daily driver without a racing seat isn’t “safer” since they really only work effectively with racing seats. And using a 5point and racing seat without wearing a neck restraint like a HANS restraint is great way keep your torso strapped in while letting your head bobble around and snapping your neck should happen to be involved in a frontal crash that was serious enough to deploy the airbag.

Not to mention 5 points aren’t DOT approved, which means if you ever get pulled over, you will get ticketed or worse.

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FWIW… BMW of North America has issued a stop sales of all CPO and used BMWs affected by the airbag recall to all dealerships. So unless the airbag has been replaced, no BMW dealer is allowed to sell any preowned BMW that has been affected by the recall.

I believe CarMax also has done the same.

There’s estimated 800k BMWs affected by this recall and it seems like parts will only start to be available in limited quantities in August of this year, with preference given to regions in hot and humid climates and to older vehicles

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[quote=AN][quote=spdrun]Looks like the lion’s share of problems are cosmetic/body/trim, not serious.[/quote]LoL, I would hate to be the owner who have to deal w/ those stuff after dropping $40k+ for the car. Would you say the same thing if your BMW, Benz, etc. have the same build quality?[/quote]

No,.we.just expect the BMW quality to fall off the cliff after the 4th year of ownership, after the warranty expires. Lol.

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[quote=AN][quote=LAAFTERHOURS]325K preorders in the first week (per Elon today). Wow..

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/tesla-model-elon-musk-update-blockbuster-week-pre/story?id=38230393%5B/quote%5D
Awesome. Hope they can meet the demand and make a decent profit each car.

I’m looking forward to the day where someone crack the charging performance and be able to fully charge the car in 2-5 minutes. Then all the current gas station can put in a bunch of charging station. That would eliminate the range anxiety part of me.[/quote]

I don’t know, I think 325k people with that $1000 deposit just funded the first 100 so to be built. I hope the remaining 324.9k people get a car or at least get their deposit back and Tesla doesn’t go belly up. I hope this isn’t auto vaporware.

I don’t see Tesla building 325k model 3’s anytime soon, as it appears they can’t even build Model X’s fast enough. And if they somehow can crank up the volume, I wonder if they can keep quality up to par.

This will probably be the car that will make or break Tesla. I do hope Musk succeeds.

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[quote=bearishgurl]flu, imagine yourself a plaintiff in court represented by your lawyer, who is a “Dr Watson robot.” Your lawyer misses the nuances of a cross examination on you, which will need “cleaning up,” so the jury can put your previous testimony into context. Upon redirect, (s)he/it does not ask you the right questions, so the jury takes at face value how you answered when you were trapped in a cross-examination and you lose the case based on this (and likely a whole slew of other errors in your case that your “counsel,” “Dr Watson,” made).

Do you think you will be able to sue Dr Watson for malpractice (in attempt to recover all or some of your losses which should have been won)? How about filing a complaint with the state bar against Dr. Watson? How well do you think that will go over?

What if Dr Watson, the criminal practitioner, makes such egregious errors representing a defendant accused of a capital crime that that defendant ends up sentenced to death as a result of a jury verdict but was actually innocent but framed? What is the remedy against Dr Watson?

I could go on and on but you can see where I’m going here. The stakes are just simply too high in the legal system to allow “Dr Watson” to “practice law” :=0[/quote]

I didn’t say Watson could replace lawyers. I said Watson would more readily replace legal support functions a lawyer needs.

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[quote=deadzone]Okay so you would prefer the government subsidize foreigner workers than US workers. You are a jackass.[/quote]

No, let’s get rid of everything. Let’s eliminate all social entitlement programs for everyone and cut defense spending by 50-60% and reinvest that same amount of money into our crumbling infrastructure or medicine or the reducing the deficit.

And while we are at it lets revisit social security and make 50% of contributions paid to oneself in a self directed account while the remaining 50% goes to that promised entitlement benefit to our older people.

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[quote=harvey][quote=flu]I never understood the logic of people who work at a defense business/job complaining about h1bs or illegals. [/quote]

The middle-class welfare system that is the defense industry costs orders of magnitude more than undocumented workers receiving government aid.

But the middle-class welfare workers do show up to “work” most days, so that makes it legit.[/quote]

Well hang in there. Illegals do work. They are the day laborers that do all the low skill work….on the other hand, there are a bunch of welfare recipients in the southern states that don’t work at while receiving welfare benefits. So……

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[quote=bearishgurl][quote=flu][quote=ucodegen]@flu

You might want to check the history of IBM Watson. It is ‘Deep Blue’s spawn, not something weird (yet again) from Microsoft.

With the Microsoft chatbot, some people realized that they were dealing with a parrot, a not particularly bright one at that, instead of an AI. An AI would have asked why the person wanted it to repeat everything said.

PS: IBM Watson bought some critical medical companies recently. It would probably do better at analyzing xrays, CTs and MRIs than sending them off to some cheap sweatshop in India. It will probably be more consistent than can be achieved even with well trained individuals.

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-ibm-watson-is-transforming-healthcare-2015-7%5B/quote%5D

I’ve very familiar with Watson…. I saw it on Jeopardy one time 🙂

I think more impressively is if Watson can replace a $300-400/hr attorney. We have way too many lawyers and folks in the legal profession in this country that way over complicates simple things, more so than doctors.[/quote]Ha ha …. regarding non-lawyer “folks in the legal profession” being replaced by “Dr. Watson,” Uhmmm …. that’s already been tried about 15-20 years ago, and, suffice to say, it didn’t end well :=0

The “attempted replacement” for non-lawyer clerks and secretaries was named “Dragon.” That is, their full name was, “Dragon Naturally Speaking” :=D

Of course, Mr/Ms “Dragon” never filed any workers comp claims for carpal tunnel syndrome but in spite of that, they only lasted a week or so on the job before they were all summarily fired :=0

The primary duties of Mr/Ms Dragon were to type whatever they heard on the dictaphone (dictated material). Have any of you ever tried to “proofread” the Dragon?? It’s hilarious! Not only does Mr/Ms Dragon “forget” to use adverbs, (s)he/it doesn’t understand singular from plural, cannot punctuate to save their souls (that was ok, since they didn’t have “souls”) and couldn’t discern one word from another similar-sounding word with a completely different meaning. In addition, Mr/Ms Dragon had no idea how to cite any law or legally format anything that was dictated to them! We had to have “human experts in the field” (whom “Dragon” was “hired” to eventually “replace,” lol) go thru ALL of Mr/Ms Dragon’s work with a fine toothed comb and fix it so it could be used in a court of law. Because we had to re-listen to the the dictated material that Dragon tried to transcribe, this took much longer and was far more tedious than doing all the work ourselves!

Buying several sets of the Dragon was an exercise in futility and a huge waste of money (software was a LOT more expensive back then than it is today). It was management’s bright idea to try the Dragon to see if they could get by with less humans (with different personalities whom they considered “difficult”) but alas, it turned out to be a fiasco. (Mr/Ms Dragon not only had no personality, they had no brain, either.) Thus, they were hopelessly incompetent.[/quote]

The reason why technology hasn’t pursued this isn’t that technology can’t eventually solve this problem. It’s all about cost.

It’s much cheaper to hire a young paralegal than to invest in technology to do the same thing. And given the way the legal profession has been over the past few years, there’s a lot of supply of people who can do all this work to such that at this point that there is no financial incentive to invest in technology to try this at a lower cost at this point.. Over the past few years many people pursue a career to be a lawyer. Some made it, many did not. And the ones that didn’t add to the ever increasing supply of folks playing supporting roles.

People like this…

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2016/mar/24/thomas-jefferson-law-school-verdict/

That said, you can’t replace a top trial lawyer and you probably can’t report a lawyer that is good negotiating. But eventually you could replace all the administrative functions with technology if cost was an issue.

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[quote=bearishgurl][quote=flu][quote=bearishgurl][quote=flu] … There’s also unnecessary waste in our legal systems. Particularly how ridiculously expensive.legal counsel is. Just a few months ago, I was in a jury selection group for a case that was going to trial over someone that shoplifted some toiletry items at Walmart. Seriously, we need a two day trial for this?[/quote]flu, the crime you describe here is a misdemeanor in CA and typically adjudicated quickly and sentenced without trial. Your “defendant” must have had numerous (2 or more, but likely more than 2) priors of petty theft and/or grand theft.

The facts of the crime and the circumstances surrounding the offender often dictate whether prosecutors and judges go with the misdemeanor or felony label….

(emphasis mine)

See: http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-wobbler.html

and: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-strikes_law
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Thanks for support my claim that our legal system is bloated with unnecasriky complicated and circular jargon with the sole intent and purpose to add thick layers of bureaucracy and bloat, and I guess, provide additional jobs that normally would not be needed if the legal system was actually just simplified.[/quote]This is precisely why “robots” or “Dr. Watson” can’t do the any of these jobs and will never be able to do any of them, as you suggested over on the “ot: do we need doctors” thread. Nothing in the legal system is as “simple” as it appears to the “layman.”

[quote=flu][quote=ucodegen]@flu

You might want to check the history of IBM Watson. It is ‘Deep Blue’s spawn, not something weird (yet again) from Microsoft.

With the Microsoft chatbot, some people realized that they were dealing with a parrot, a not particularly bright one at that, instead of an AI. An AI would have asked why the person wanted it to repeat everything said.

PS: IBM Watson bought some critical medical companies recently. It would probably do better at analyzing xrays, CTs and MRIs than sending them off to some cheap sweatshop in India. It will probably be more consistent than can be achieved even with well trained individuals.

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-ibm-watson-is-transforming-healthcare-2015-7%5B/quote%5D

I’ve very familiar with Watson…. I saw it on Jeopardy one time 🙂

I think more impressively is if Watson can replace a $300-400/hr attorney. We have way too many lawyers and folks in the legal profession in this country that way over complicates simple things, more so than doctors.[/quote]

http://piggington.com/ot_do_we_need_doctors#comment-266074%5B/quote%5D

Not yet.

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