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DeveloperX · Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 2:51 am Post subject: lovely...just lovely.

well this is just lovely....

if I don't get $650 to my landlord by 5pm tomorrow..I'm going to lose my apartment.

I'm $250 short, and out of options.

so it looks like I'm just royally fucked.
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Ninkazu · Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 12:43 pm Post subject:

Know any fat chicks that need lovin'?

DeveloperX · Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 3:51 pm Post subject:

:P

no, and just...NO.
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tcaudilllg · Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 4:56 pm Post subject:

$650?

And your parents are living with you too, right? I suppose that's the problem.

This is a rough patch, but things are turning around.

I think you need to put things in perspective: can you afford $650 next month? If at all possible, I think you need to move to a cheaper place. It may be degrading, but you're not the only one experiencing dreams deferred.

Nodtveidt · Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 10:39 pm Post subject:

The landlord can't just throw you out. He has to go through the eviction process, which can take months. Within that time, you can just stay where you are and find a cheaper place to live.

http://www.rentlaw.com/eviction/texaseviction.htm
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DeveloperX · Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 2:09 am Post subject:

tcaudilllg · Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 8:37 pm Post subject:

The economy is improving. Not good, but improving. Things'll pick back up in... a year. But you should think about that... we're talking a year worth of bills.

Although man you just don't bring in enough money to afford $870 a month. That's $10,000 year rent, and comparable to what my mom pays ON HER HOUSE.

I look at it this way: if I can get by on cheap living, then so can you if you must. I understand about the lease, but what I'm arguing is that you should move as soon as it's up, especially if you don't want to burden your parents any more than you have to.

RampantCoyote · Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 10:49 pm Post subject:

Well, if you take "improving" as "getting worse slower," then I think that's accurate. Unemployment is still rising, companies are still reporting horrible earnings, the GDP is still shrinking...

But it's not in as much of a free-fall as it was three months ago. Which kinda makes sense - I mean, it has a theoretical limit of zero, so that kinda nosedive was unsustainable.

I'm really worried we're gonna be right back where we were six months ago in 4-8 years, so be sure and save all you can during whatever temporary respite we might get in a couple of years.

A good book to read (I borrowed it from the library) is "Scratch Beginnings," if you haven't read it already. It's kinda helpful to see the guy's approach as he pretty much starts with nothing and works his way up. Not that I'd want any of us to have to go that far.
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DeveloperX · Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 12:33 am Post subject:

tcaudilllg · Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 4:48 am Post subject:

Nodtveidt · Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 3:02 pm Post subject:

Just keep in mind that these problems are not just in the USA but worldwide. Just about every first-world country is having a rough time right now, even Japan, "the unshakable one". Meanwhile, in second- and third-world countries, their problems have more than doubled in presence and the decline continues. It's convenient to blame our former government for this mess, but it's not that simple. The real problem comes from a multitude of smaller issues, but is largely made up of the few at the top wanting a bigger slice of their already gigantic pie. Obama's leadership in the USA has slowed our decline, but most of the plans for revival were thrown together quickly and won't work so fast. There is not one single answer for this mountain of problems, just as there isn't one single cause. The only thing you can really do is swallow your pride and take whatever you can get, no matter how demeaning it may seem at the time. 'Survival of the fittest' isn't just a famous quote.
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tcaudilllg · Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 6:10 pm Post subject:

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DeveloperX · Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:11 pm Post subject:

MDSMU · Pretty, Pretty Fairy Princess Joined: 19 Jun 2008 Posts: 5

Holy shit that's a lot of money to be paying monthly... You could try to do something similar to what i'm doing, if you have some land get your own resource based economy. I went broke so i started to grow some exotic palms and made a few $$$$.

First year they can be sold at 300$ and the second 1000$, sure it's not I.T or related to computers but hey, whatever gets the bills payed.