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tod
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response 100 of 119:
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Feb 15 15:15 UTC 2007 |
re #97
Have you ever had anyone pound on the walls when you used the toilet?
I had a landlord who rented me her basement apartment and she would stomp her
feet at any slight noise from my apartment. One day, half my apartment
flooded for no good reason (there was a pipe hidden in a wall which burst)
so I told her that her foot stomping broke it.
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keesan
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response 101 of 119:
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Feb 15 15:35 UTC 2007 |
I hope your rent was low. Basement ceilings tend not to be at all soundproof,
since they are often made of paper panels that can be removed to get at the
ductwork and plumbing in the ceiling. She could have fixed the problem, in
such a case, by putting up drywall.
My upstairs neighbor, who twice threw a large box of newsprint in the trash
can, put her kitty litter box in the recycling bin (unflattened) and used to
complain about other people not recycling, while she was buying plastic
bottles to recycle. She also put plastic trash in the bin, which is why I
was opening the trash can in the first place.
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tod
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response 102 of 119:
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Feb 16 20:22 UTC 2007 |
re #101
It was low rent for me because I shared it with 2 others. The cost of the
apartment itself was on the high end.
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keesan
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response 103 of 119:
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Feb 16 23:36 UTC 2007 |
A Seattle apartment? What is the range now for 1BR apartments?
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tod
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response 104 of 119:
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Feb 17 00:44 UTC 2007 |
It was an apartment in Rochester-Utica, Michigan out in the sticks. The range
in Seattle for a 1BR apartment can be anywhere between $700-1300+
You can find em cheaper if you know where to look, too.
I had a nice 550 sqft efficiency at Zindorf Apts back in 2001 for $600/mo plus
$100/mo for a parking spot. That was right on 7th & Cherry downtown where
all the action is, too.
Right now, there are a ton of condos going up downtown starting in the $300k
range on up. Several coworkers are selling their homes and moving into them
since its the same amount of floorspace and much more convenient in many ways.
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denise
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response 105 of 119:
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Feb 22 02:54 UTC 2007 |
I haven't been in this conference in 2=3 weeks-so it was fun [in a somewhat
humerous way] to catch up withthe apartment news. Though I know its not all
that humerous for Sindi, though. It doesn't sound like a cool street to live
on, that's for sure. I've been lucky with most of my neighbors that I've had
while living in apartments. Except I hear some yelling coming from upstairs
sometimes; always a mad male voice. And once while sharing a house with
someone, I hated her dog. I normally love dogs but definitely not this yipey
15 year old chiwowa [I know that isn't spelled right but since I don't know
how to spell it, I'm just writing it phonetically]. This dog used to always
go to the bathroom in the living room; it was like a kitty litter box and my
housemate didn't care. And once when I had a friend over for dinner, the dog
bit my friend [fortunatley it wasn't a bad bite]. But when I told my housemate
about it, she acted like it was MY fault that the dog bit my friend--and said
that I should've locked the dog up in her bedroom. But I wasn't warned that
the dog bites. Anyway, I didn't live in that place for long.
So what's the latest in the soap opera saga? And is Jim back home from Ireland
yet?
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keesan
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response 106 of 119:
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Feb 22 16:23 UTC 2007 |
No more news. All quiet here, no smoke. Jim will be back in a month.
I had a neighbor in the apt next door with a dog that would bark any time
anyone walked by and wake up everyone else in the house when the owner was
not there. When he was there he closed the curtain and the dog stopped
barking. He put a chair in front of the window so the dog could climb it to
look out the window and always left the curtain open when he was not there.
His suggested solution was whenever the dog barked we should use his spare
hidden key to go in and close the curtain. At 3 am.
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slynne
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response 107 of 119:
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Feb 22 20:00 UTC 2007 |
I dont know if this behavior annoys my neighbor or not because she has
never mentioned it. I think it is funny though. My nextdoor neighbor J.
installed a motion detecting light in her backyard. It is really bright
and lights up the whole yard. My dog has figured out how to set it off
and seems to like to do it. She always runs over to the place where she
can set it off whenever she goes out back at night. T., the neighbor on
the other side of J. has two dogs that do the same thing! T. and I are
on similar schedules so from 7p to midnight the light is constantly
going on and off since both T. and I let our dogs out multiple times
during that time period. There is also a lot of barking especially when
my dog is out at the same time as T.'s beagles who LOVE to bark. I did
ask J. if the barking bothered her and she said that it doesnt so that
is good at least.
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denise
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response 108 of 119:
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May 5 08:25 UTC 2007 |
Sindi, this item has been quiet for a couple months now. I take it that things
are going a bit better? How are things going at the other house?
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keesan
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response 109 of 119:
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May 7 02:03 UTC 2007 |
The crazy neighbor moved out at the end of January to the landlord's house
next door, claiming that the stairs in the old place were hard on her carpal
tunnel syndrome, and I have no interaction with her. The woman who would have
been her upstairs neighbor moved to upstairs from me and is quiet and does
not smoke. She is also nuts in her own way and I have given up interacting
with her since she blamed me for the water pressure being low ('what did you
do to the water!!!'), ordered me to stay home all morning to let in the phone
company (we were headed for the airport), ordered me to call the repairman
to do that (I don't know his number either, he would not give it to her), and
complained to the police that I had removed and recycled a cardboard box full
of Sunday newspaper. She did not mentin that I shared the trashcan and was
making space to put in my own trash. The police thought it was funny when
I called. She was getting free heat next door because the storm windows were
not working and it was drafty. Now she has all her storm windows off and one
window open since she moved in (February). I have two sets of friendly
neighbors, good enough average.
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denise
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response 110 of 119:
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May 7 13:34 UTC 2007 |
I'm glad that the new person upstairs doesn't smoke, at least.
My parents live in a retirement village in Dearborn [in apartment-style
buildings]. One day last week when I went over there, when I got off the
elevator and headed down to their place, almost right away, I noticed a pretty
strong cigarette smoke odor that went almost the whole length of that floor.
I had commented about it to my Dad; he seemed surprised and said that no one
on that floor smokes. Though that's incorrect as HE occasionally smokes but
tries to hide it from us [just like a kid would; he smokes in the bathroom
so he can easily get rid of the ashes and butts]. Even on Saturday when I
was there, he was in the bathroom for awhile and the apt then really smelled
of smoke. Often, he keeps the door to the hallway open, I guess to air out
the place, I guess. Though in previous times going there, I never detected
the smell all the way down to the elevators [only within a couple apartments],
so perhaps this time, there were other smokers [residents and/or other
guests]. I do know, though, that smokers get to the point where they can't
smell the smoke anymore. I guess Dad forgets that fact and believes he's still
fooling us. No one ever says anything to him. He's 79 and has smoked since
he was 17. He's tried quitting a few times, including after emergency surgery
in 1990; it's been after this time when he's been hiding this fact...
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keesan
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response 111 of 119:
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May 7 15:23 UTC 2007 |
My neighbor around the corner is now working at getting the smoke smell out
of her house. Her nicotine-addict husband spent a week or so in the hospital
recently with pneumonia and emphysema, and was discharged with an oxygen tank
and no open flames are allowed in their house. He complains a lot now that
he is not allowed to smoke. She is washing all the walls and may remove the
carpets and have them steam-cleaned. I don't know how to get the smell out
of all their books etc. He is being given some new pill containing a nicotine
antagonist that is supposed to help the craving without having the other bad
effects of nicotine (blood vessel constriction?).
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slynne
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response 112 of 119:
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May 7 17:29 UTC 2007 |
I forget the name of that pill but I know several people who have used
it with good success. Some of them had to stop though because of the
side effects but even those folks were able to stay on it long enough
to break the habit.
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slynne
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response 113 of 119:
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May 7 17:29 UTC 2007 |
Oh wait, I do remember. The name of the pill is chantix
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tod
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response 114 of 119:
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May 7 19:50 UTC 2007 |
Chantix will give you nightmares.
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keesan
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response 115 of 119:
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May 7 19:54 UTC 2007 |
Do they also get addicted to the pills? I hear methadone is more addictive
than heroin.
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slynne
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response 116 of 119:
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May 8 01:15 UTC 2007 |
No, quite the opposite. No one I know has been able to stay on the
Chantix for very long. My sister thought it made her too tired. Another
friend mentioned the nightmares. Yet another person just felt that it
made her life kind of blah. No one thought that the Chantix was pleasant
in any way so they have all stopped taking it. It got them over those
first difficult weeks though so I would say it has some value.
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tsty
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response 117 of 119:
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Sep 11 03:22 UTC 2007 |
This response has been erased.
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tsty
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response 118 of 119:
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Feb 8 07:01 UTC 2008 |
ahs the insense been delivered yet?
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lar
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response 119 of 119:
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Jul 9 09:40 UTC 2008 |
*snicker*
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