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One would think the owner would want that too. I notice telling about asbestos, bedbugs, and black mold, is optional! Really? I found it to my long term financial advantage to provide ac filter replacement every 60 days, annual AC cleaning, annual carpet shampooing, and paint if needed. Plus monthly bug/pest service and basic cable tv. All vehicles on property must have current tags and no servicing of vehicles allowed on property.

A mutual hug is not the least bit intimate.

Too many rules spoil the fellowship. How about a fist and elbow tap, with a hip bump?

And "here" since the toppling of the Condo's on the East coast of Florida there are new laws for inspections. Now we have people on the street in my community because units have failed electrical code inspection. Rules just do not make for solutions, they change the nature of the same problem with the same end result. Runaway inflation new expensive to meet building codes have made it very difficult to build to the need of the poorer individual. It is a matter of math, simple math that "caring" and blaming of others just can't overcome. Communities do try to force units to be built at a loss in order to get permission to develop profitable units too. What happens? Drugs move in, crime goes nuts, the whole thing becomes a new dangerous area and the grocery stores move away. Try to mix section 8 residents into upper level housing by paying their rent and what happens; crime and drug dealing moves in with them and nice neighborhoods become crime infested. Some people are just plain professionally bad people, some are raised that way and have been for over four generations in a loosely assembled families playing "the system". Without forced work for pay there will always be crime infesting wherever government programs and charities reach.

Many more locally are about to find their home has been labeled as being more than 50% of assessed value damaged, and thus must be torn down or raised upon stilts. They will find their electricity and water cut off. Instant homelessness will visit yet more of us. Plus locally a large midrise seniors apartment complex has been rated an electrical system fire hazard, and all the tenants removed. Further problems are coming for condo owners more than four stories tall that have not funded contingency needs, as the State has new rules on that. There are a whole lot of displaced among the homeless. In the meantime we just had a in person visit/audit from our own home insurance company. Who knows what that will mean. I am reminded of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's statement that the only person with security on earth is the one under lifetime prison sentence with no hope of parol. Evidently he never envisioned a President Joe Biden to come in the future. Security for eternity to come is in Jesus alone, short of that we are as subject to calamity as Job.

How's rent control been working so far? What cost $30 a square foot to build in 1989 costs in excess of $300 a square foot today; with remodeling, the upgrading of existing properties costing $600 a square foot. Do the math it takes big money and big money has the reasonable demand that it receive a return on investment proportionate to the risk to be taken. Construction is capital intensive, no way around that. Just reality hitting the wallet. All the "caring" doesn't buy a thing. Not a single thing. Saying I care, or I care more than you care, just doesn't provide the resources needed to meet the needs and desires. Inflation, lack of resources, and a serious lack of talented workers, all contribute to the disaster that is before us today. In the meantime the world's nations finance today's forever wars with ever less valuable currency.

Rent control just forces maintenance deferment. Pretty soon the management and owner(s) is the evil slumlord. There simply isn't enough of us paying taxes to cover the needs of all those that don't. Everyone just can't ride along on the backs of a few those supposedly evil richer ones.

Generally no. It is what will you get this month that counts. Although if one wants to prepay from savings for a full lease term that will likely be accepted. I have had tenants do that in th epast, usually they want a two year lease- which due to inflation and other unknowns puts risk on the lessor. Plus if there is disruption during the time of the lease that is prepaid there will be need to reimburse- it can get dicey.

Yep, it is amazingly crazy! The new units have granite counter tops in the kitchens the nicest of appliances etc. Back in the 1980's at Los Angeles-San Pedro area I rented while trying to sell my Florida home. Rent was $2,400 for a condo unit. Rent increases in those days were 10 to 20% increase per year. My original little Cypress Ca home a $24,600 purchase when I bought it last sold for $790,000 some few years ago now. Never did sell my Florida home due to providence. The whole values thing is insanity. I'm locked in with low property taxation, but a new neighbor will pay more than 5 times what I pay. And yes a section 8 person will get a free ride- if they know how to work the system. Life isn't fair, never was. I give thanks to God and go about the day best I can on the grand days and the days of tribulations. May 2025 be kind to you and all here. Personally I expect it to be a very seriously difficult time nationally and internationally; but we have hope hope that is certain in our lord and savior Jesus. Praise God.

The problem is one simply cannot rent as a long term plan. Hard reality is owners of their residences get tax breaks that renters ( And landlords) do not. Unfair? Yes, but also reality. Everyone has to deal with reality with what is, not what what one wishes things were instead. Reality is a hard task master. So what has history to remind us? There was a time not so long ago that there were factory owned row houses, there was and still is the time of hot sheets living- sharing housing and beds three shifts a day. Today nobody wants low income housing anywhere near them for low income housing also means crime. And so we end up with sidewalk living, ... and crime. Inflation is the real enemy I suppose, and it is just going to get worse. "And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.” All one can do is their own personal best even as inflation chews away, ever multiplying exponentially.

Many are at the helping, and have been from day one. Expecting government to make everyone whole is unrealistic, not just at NC. but also Hi. Ga, Fl, and all the places hit by sudden severe weather related events. Life presents us all with risks of great loss. It hurts. No amount of "caring" is going to erase the risk, nor the real suffering that comes to some many if not all of us at some point in time. Help comes one person to another, can't successfully delegate that to "government" for government is all about rules and being accountable to the auditors of the rules. Some individuals can help directly some can help through charities, many do and are doing so even now.

Hi, Not necessarily greed but need. The costs to an owner gets very expensive. The margin on rentals is pretty slim and it is very capital intensive. The economy of scale has changed, tenants are less and less responsible and far more destructive. Residential real estate is a real pain. I had mine for over thirty years. Oh so glad those days are over.

Maybe, but I seriously doubt it. In the meantime private groups, local church bodies have already been working hard to help on the ground at NC GA and Fl. History suggests, no promises, a near decade of impossible to set and then meet massive series of Building Code changes, all waiting on FEMA flood map re-assessments that just never get processed. Personal history reminds me it took four years for "us" last time around. Us being my own various family members including myself. Yes the many poor get absolutely crushed. It really isn't so much a secret as it is reality a very harsh reality.

Can try. All of creation calls, a general call, to each of us. The Holy Spirit makes a specific personal call to turn about from sin against God to worship of God the Son Jesus. Resisting that specific call is like wrestling all night against the angel of God. Comes at a high price, a permanent limp of one kind or another.

Regardless of the who and why of it the situation comes out pretty much the same everywhere, not just NC. I don't want to go into detail online, but family has lost everything here too. The encumbered property gets bought for what was way below land values and is resold in less than 30 days to bigger builders/developers or used for mitigation land. Eventually really hugely expensive structures will be built or the land used to allow building elsewhere. Oak Ridge TN is just one real life story, one that gets repeated. Texas has it's true stories. I have lived mine at Florida too. YES it is tragic. It is also reality, a hard reality. Is it going to get fixed? No. Big money beats out little to no money. For many this is the living out of the grapes of wrath.

I do understand that resistance to the general call by the Holy Spirit with resistance to the specific call through the Holy Spirit comes at a great personal price. One paid out of one's own "wallet"; there being nothing free nor without adverse consequence about it. reference Acts 9:5

This Calvinist believes: "For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance. Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Hi, As to personal application rather than recitation of definitions and Bible verses "grace" is an action verb. Grace is the actual action extending God's mercy from everlasting to everlasting that I may appear as fully holy and therefore acceptable in the sight of Holy God. p.s. That ought to generate some incoming.

Please, shoot straight up over your own head and not out over my property. Thanks.

Perhaps one of several articles each with points of view but quite factually informative too may enlighten as to China's play unfolding as i has for well at least since "45's" Presidential administration. See https://dialogo-americas.com/articles/panama-chinas-strategic-hub/

Much like the 25,000 Cubans that were released by Castro so many years ago that all made it to Miami, and the world as we knew it was about to end. Anyway It is going to be interesting 23 days to day 1 if we make it- For only our creator knows what the Biden family operatives have in store for the last of the last days . Pray for the "troopers" assigned to do the dirty work, of rounding up all these terrorists and gang members evidently some 16million+ of them if that is all that has been crossing the borders. It is going to be guerrilla warfare in some areas.

No, not at all. I am debating ideas.

Suppose any of the "troopers" that will be assigned to round up the illegals (men, women, and children) will have Trump Bibles with them to use for sharing of our Lord and savior with those they round up, hold captive in tent confinement "camps" and then push over the border? 24 days to day 1 I do think there needs be lots of prayer for those assigned to go in and grab people, including gang members that are likely well armed. It might become a bloody mess when the braggadocio posturing stops and the grabbing begins. Could quickly become way more violent in the USA than it was off and on throughout the middle 1960's with anti Vietnam and race riots. There is likely going to be another Kent State like event too. This isn't going to go smoothly.

That reasoning seems to imply that Guatemalans burn each other to death. If that were the case there wouldn't be a whole lot of them left after awhile would there? In this crazed condition on earth today a person could be found guilty of such a crime within the USA, receive a death sentence, and then have a USA president commute their death sentence. Seems to me Satan and his minions are having a grand time working fear into the lives of way too many individuals making them fear and hate whole groups of people by race nationality and religion. Christians should know better than to fall into that trap, but it seems right now at least, focus is not on Jesus first, not even at Christmas and instead it is on let's get "them", whoever their chosen them might be. Get rid of all of them and "we" will be purely us only.

Yes for many thousands of people it sure is. Greenland is interesting though as it has evolved to self rule under Denmark and could vote ( with a population of less than 60,000 evidently) to full autonomy as of 2009. The USA has has military air force base there for decades and decades Thule Airbase. It was protected by US forces during WWII. Had a friend that got stuck with duty there, and then was sent to Turkey where he went nuts and shot himself in the wrist to get discharged from the airforce. Anyway Thule is now Pituffik Space Base, the name implying it's importance to USA's "space force" Gets rather interesting when looked into.