I used your code and now they won’t let me cancel my subscription the only option is to skip a month or email/ call the place to cancel and I’m not calling anyone so thanks dude :/
This is kinda random, but I listened to Alvin Flames, and I really liked it. It kind of reminded me of this band called Arrested Youth, I'm not sure why.
Im not strong enough to carry an apartment. Edit: You're 100% right, I gotta get stronger, starting tonight I'm squatting apartments. Thank you for inspiring me.
My dad, a former landlord, doesn’t understand why everyone hates landlords. For context, when it comes to landlords, he’s pretty decent. Priced the property competitively, allowed animals, fixed stuff on time, etc. But I keep having to explain to him that he’s the exception to the rule and most landlords are absolute nightmares. When he heard my sister’s story of her having mold and the water go unfixed for months, I think he finally got it
I forget where I heard this (probably on Twitter), but I'll never forget the person who said that they once left a small gift basket as a sign of appreciation for their old landlord when they moved out and the landlord charged them for "removal of leftover personal belongings" because of it
Pro tip: buy your dad pillows for father's day. I have absolutely no statistics backing this up but my dad's pillows were about as thick as a piece of paper, and something tells me there's a lot of widowed/single dads out there who aren't treating themselves to some better sleeping accessories.
And get him a silk pillowcase. I mean a good one. I think he would like it. I love mine but why should only women have them? Very nice feeling on your face
20 or 40 bucks? Lol hahahahaha it’s like a 100 bucks on average just to get an application. Sad honestly Man I can’t wait till this Dementia old resident gets out of office, we are all going to drown in debt and starve to death, if things keep going like they are
Most of the time that's actually for the background check it said that they can pay for it on their end cuz they don't want to pay for it for you not to get in so if they're charging you like 20-25 bucks then that's fair but anything more than that and it's a scam
Seeing rent be near $1K on the LOW END is horrific. It was just five years ago that I could find a decent place for like $600 a month, I have been forced to move back in with family to be able to afford to survive due to rent prices skyrocketing where I live.
When I went looking for an apartment out of high school (around 2017-2018) rent for studio apartments was around $1500 a month in the Portland (OR) metro area. I don't even want to imagine what it looks like now
Bad news, all the new apartments that we're building are luxury apartments that will cost you 75 percent of your income even if you have a semi-decent paying job.
@@richgerow3472worse news is these “luxury” apartments aren’t even very luxury. Just new. New is now luxury lmao. These 2-5s have wood walls. You gonna hear all your neighbors. The balcony is just a sliding door to a fence. The only thing that makes it luxury is the appliances are nicer than basic. Besides that, none of these new “luxury” apartments seem luxurious to me at all.
@@richgerow3472That's good actually, that's the only way you can get affordable apartments because of restrictive zoning and fees to build. If you wait 10 years they'll become affordable 🎉
Bad news..Rich pepole buy the affordable apparents then rent them out to poor popple for duble what they are worth. This way poor people know their place and will never be able to own anything.
My sister just moved into her new apartment and the agent had the balls to say she "checked the appartment" and mentioned everything was great but that my sister could list things that might need fixing at the apartment. She then proceeds to find that the stove did not heat up, the washing machine shook to the point where it was running out the door, and the AC didn't work in the middle of July. So yes, always ask and always check things yourself.
When we left our last condo, I paid a professional cleaning service to come in & took photos of EVERYTHING. there was a broken bbq in the backyard when we moved in & i had the foresight to photograph that. The mgmt company wanted to keep our $2k deposit & charge us $1.4k to repair the bbq (it was a big built-in. Very nice looking. We never used it). We took them to small claims & won, so we got our deposit+court costs+the money i paid to the professional cleaners.
I will bet my bottom dollar they had zero intention of ever fixing that bbq and the only reason they have it is so they can deliberately keep it broken so they can charge people fees to pretend to fix it. Landlords are bottomfeedibg subhuman swine.
That sounds great but how much time did you spend so that you could break even? (Not saying you shouldn't do it at all! Just kinda crazy that you had to put in a ton of work to just not LOSE money)
@@Weatherman4Evasome of us like to have the storage that you can put under a frame. Great place for shoes when they're out of season. And extra quilts for that matter. And for those of us who are not that young, it's difficult to get up off a little bit. Very difficult lol lol
@@ChiakiNanami736 I can't skip college, I'm gonna be an electrical engineer. Can't get hired for that if I don't have a degree, but thank you anyway, I appreciate the attempt.
@@notdeadyet382electrical engineer here working at a company building industrial washers. Got my associates at the local community College, did lots of learning on my own as well. Stay curious and don't be afraid to ask questions. Good luck.
Its really frustrating to have someone tell you to just buy a home, and when they tell you "You'll get it eventually bro!" and here I am struggling to pay my 700 a month rent, on top of other expenses at my shitty job, while they have a big house and rich parents. Its like...just so tone deaf.
Genuinely trying to be helpful here, PLEASE look into FHA and down payment assistance programs in your area. I managed to buy my own condo in denver on a single income that was about half the median income (thankfully got a couple raises since then but it's still not much). I did get lucky in a lot of ways, but I also put in a lot of work and had to wait quite some time for an FHA-approved property to come available in the area I needed. My mortgage is about half the average cost of rent here and I'm actually building equity. There ARE affordable homeownership options for people with low incomes!!
literally just had a conversation with a family friend, she's an older retired woman and owns a condo in florida her and her husband used as a vacation home. They're looking to sell it now and she was saying they bought it in 2010 for $220k and they're getting offers between 700-800k on it right now. She kept saying how happy they were to be making so much money and then immediately asked why i havent bought a house yet. I wanted to drop kick her lol. "Ohhhh i dunno it just seems like every house these days costs between $700-800k!"
Nobody said you had to buy the house all by yourself. One reason previous generations were able to afford homes was because they had cosigners (marriage) and their homes were on average 3 times smaller than homes built today. It is possible.
11:55 I have a comparison, renting a car. You go online, reserve a mid-size sedan, and then get to the rental place and all they have are 3 full-sized SUVs that get 10 MPG going downhill, 2 sub-compacts, a minivan, and a full-sized sedan with a busted motor
People were shouting "housing crisis 2.0" 6 years ago, and I waited for it to happen, and I'm still waiting, except now the same houses costs twice as much as they did back then.
@@Kentama Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. People can't predict when things are going to change but they know the current conditions are unsustainable.
Literally just decided to move 95% of my stuff myself because I’ve had experience with how much moving companies suck, but I forgot I’m 36 and I threw out my back doing it and oh my GOD, I still have to try to clean the oven at my old place tomorrow, this is actual hell
I'm old enough to remember when apartments were for people just starting out and save up for a house. Or if you were single. Idk. Life sucks now and it won't change until we stand up and finally break out the guillotines.
I've had my pitchfork and torch ready for years. There's 330 million of us and like 100 of the top .01% who have all our money. Why the fuck aren't we at their gates demanding it back??
3:50 the bottom tier of maslow’s heirachy is accurately the most vital of needs. Once the lower levels are achieved, the higher levels become easier to achieve
I'm glad you understand shitty rentals. Some people talk like "It's better to rent. You just call your landlord when you have an issue and it's solved." I'm like who the fuck are you renting from?
I've talked to my landlord to fix my shower because one of the walls is peeling off. Then a corpo bought the property and I'm now putting a file together because they won't even return my calls about reimbursement for when one of the complex's poorly maintained trees broke my car window when a very big and heavy branch crushed another tenant's car.
It makes me so mad when people say "there's someone to fix all the issues!" I've lived in this place almost three years and it's been under constant construction for 2 1/2, because the contractor will come for a few hours every three months. I haven't seen my landlord since I moved in.
I am the literal only person I know that has a landlord that timely fixes issues. AND ITS ONLY BC THE MAINTENANCE GUY LIKES TALKING TO ME ABOUT MY COMIC COLLECTION which, hey, it’s fun to talk to the guy but the fact that that’s one of the only reasons I get such a fast response and repair???? Extremely unfair to literally everyone else in my apartment complex that I’ve heard takes almost 2 weeks to get things fixed when I get responses within 2-3 days.
I've rented from 3 larger property management companies in Toronto and all 3 have had multiple on site building managers that also live in the building to take care of these issues. These aren't fancy buildings either, they're older and don't have a bunch of amenities. Once though I did have to call 311 (non-emergency services) to launch an investigation in my previous building because half the laundry machines in the building were broken and it was causing issues with machine availability. 311 came on site within a week and told the building if they didn't fix the machines within 3 months they'd start incurring a daily fine for each day they remained broken. They fixed them really fast after that (like within a month). The horror stories I hear from people here are mainly with mom and pop landlords, since they're a lot harder to hold them accountable and get help with maintenance, especially if they don't even live in Toronto themselves . I do think we have decent tenant protections here though that make the big companies behave this way. They aren't just doing it out of their own good-will, they're doing it to avoid hefty fines that come with poor maintenance. Not saying it's perfect and some people do have bad experiences here, but there are also a lot of buildings that are decent to rent from.
So basically, apartments suck, so get a house, but you can't get a house, so get an apartment. But even then, you can barely afford one, so you have to ask one of your family members or friends if you can live with them, and then they're going to hate you because they no longer have their own space anymore. YOU CAN'T WIN
The moving company I drove a truck for totally did this. The salesman under quoted them, then the company hiked up the price because of all the "extra items". I would show up and tell them the inflated price and they would balk. My orders were not to release their belongings without payment first. I didn't find out they did this until towards the end. I felt disgusted that i was unknowingly a part of this. I was glad they were raided by the FBI a little after I left.
Are there any moving companies that don't do this? Everyone I talked to got underquoted and then the quotes changed once the stuff was on the truck, and if you try to stand your ground they charge you hundreds a day in "storage costs."
@@GrifHowe If you go to one of the major legit moving companies like Mayflower or American Van Lines it will cost you A LOT, but all costs are upfront and you will get what you pay for. The problem is that people are scared of the high price so look for cheaper options. Most of the cheaper options are there to hook you in, then hit you with hidden costs that end up costing you more, but by then they have your stuff and it's too late. Overweight, packaging, long carry, flights of stairs - all extra. Unfortunately sometimes the customer doesn't bother looking at the contract, or doesn't tell the movers about the fact that there is no elevator for your fourth floor apartment. Then when he doesn't have enough money, an argument ensues. We also would only accept cash or postal money order since checks can be canceled after services.
As a person who grew up in the Bronx I can say the apartments there aren't bad as long as you don't mind hearing gun shots, having drug addicts around, strange smells in the hallways, roofs nearly collapsing in, water leaks, angry rats in the garbage that will attack if you get near and it being generally unsafe to go outside at night if you don't know what you're doing. Besides that 5/10 experience would never go again.
@laiyalaiya6088 My parents think that buying an apartment is stupid. But me buying a house in this economy at slightly above minimum wage? I don't think so.
@@TheKhfan001 how the hell are you gonna buy a house with the interest rates at 8%??? Have they looked into the economy at all? What makes them think you’ll get approved for a loan on a house but not an apartment cause news flash you won’t for either ! They need to find the house for you since they know everything! I’m sure if you could leave you would’ve been left
the way I am literally packing up to move into my first apartment at 21 right now. I definitely do not make enough money to sustain myself, but I am fortunate enough to have my dad help me with rent and monthly expenses. Plus, I was given a little bit of financial aid from my university, which will cover rent, groceries, and the like. The monthly rent for my apartment is $1250 for a one-bedroom one-bath. It is definitely high compared to some American cities in the Midwest, but I live in Dallas, Texas, and $1250 is honestly on the low end. I am very grateful to have this taste of independence, but I often worry how much longer my dad will have to help me make ends meet.
Literally had a nightmare of an experience with Uhaul recently. Loaded up and then went to get gas before hitting the road - fuel tank leaks everything I just put into it all over the ground at the pump. Called roadside and waited an hour (outside in the Texas summer) for a tech to come glue the tank back together. Get gas again and it leaks again. Waited another 2 hours for the same tech to come back and do the same thing. Leaves without telling us anything. Called again and roadside sent him back - another several hours. At this point, it was hours after my rental was due back in and it was almost midnight. Left him working on it and went to bed. In the morning, i drive it to drop my stuff off and lo and behold, still leaking fuel. Unloaded and dropped it off at the closest location because it was such a hazard. Then had to fight with customer service for over a month to get the dropoff fee removed and refunds for the gas that I put in and drained out. It was the biggest nightmare of my life and I'm never using them ever again
We ordered their smallest truck. Got there and all they had was a fucking 28-footer. For an efficiency apartment. Got stuck in the mud for literal days because the truck itself was so heavy. Absolute nightmare.
As someone who lives in Albuquerque NM I can say that apartments are kinda cheaper here but unless you want said apartment to be broken into I would not suggest getting one here. (Edit) That last part sounded like a threat, do please take it as one
Why is Albuquerque so wild? I went to visit and my cousin wouldn't let me drive my car there because he was too worried it would get fucked up and made me take his old beater.
@@GrifHowe idk abq just sucks all the time. Every time I go out I'm so god damn stressed when I'm in a car because of how much most of everyone here absolutely sucks at driving.
Ill never forget the day i checked out my first apartment... They wanted my Social Security Number "to check my credit score" and so i refused and walked out. Lady was all "youll likely not get the place without giving us the Social number..." I said cool and left. She called me within 30 minutes saying the apartment was mine if i wanted and that there were other apartments available if i wanted to check them out. Scummy scummy, rotten tummy.
One thing that I know you forgot to mention that is currently happening to me is having an eviction on your record. I ended up having to go on medical leave for 3 months from work because of a torn rotator cuff and since they didn't give me my full pay while I was on medical leave .. I ended up losing my apartment. So now not only do I owe the apartment complex money, but no one else will rent to me because of the eviction on my record. Even though I have a full-time job and the money for the down payment. I live in my car and shower at the gym. But don't worry about that last apartment complex I pretty much said feck you and I never paid them and I never will. 😂
Same thing happened to me and i had them send me a letter shkwing i paid my debt in full. I was able to take that letter to get a new apt. This wont help u get out of ur car but if ur able to put money back pay it off and u should be able to get a place. Bless
Have you tried renting a room in a house? They usually have very uninvolved landlords that live across the country and won't even check your renters history. Good luck
With a lot of the companies that come in and buy up apartments and then rent them back to us, not only is rent really expensive, but sometimes it's unfortunate where you have to make the call between a medical condition or a roof over your head. And that's obvious bullshit, and it shouldn't be like that. The fact is, these companies just don't care. I've looked into some other options; I have tried to find ppl either looking for a roommate or has a room to rent out. Some of these places are sketchy, I did almost get scammed at least once, but I was able to back out before any money was taken. There's been a lot of shady risks that I just don't want to take, and I came out here with no friends or family. I don't want to make the post too long, but in context, Iwas disowned by my family nearly 10 years ago, and they don't even know what state I live in. I pulled myself away from them on purpose, and I don't have anybody to rely on in that sense. The back to the issue of housing at hand, there are some government housing institutions I can look into, but most of the wait lists are over 2 years long and they're going to prioritize a family over a single person, like myself, which I completely understand. So I just keep going to work grinding, showering at the gym, doing what I can to get by and save up money. I am seeing a therapist who is helping to connect me with other sources, if need be, but at the moment, I'm kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place. It's at times like this that I'm glad that I have some camping and survival skills, so I basically just fashion by car to feel like I'm living in a tent with 4 wheels. It's not the best, but it's certainly not the worst. I appreciate everyone's concerns and I'm going to go back through these replies in the morning and see if there's any possible suggestions that I might have missed. Thanks you guys.
@@Noctali_Volkova I wish I could, but the most they'd tell me to do is just pay what I owe. I mean, I get that's common sense, but it's almost down to just principle now, ya know?
Tucker... You can do what I did, I was in the most disgusting place ever, with some nice roommates, I moved to a place twice as expensive where I had to live with the landlord, and see him in a fit of rage started to destroy things just to then turn around and steal half my food, so now I live back with my parents
Apartments also do not allow bunnies. Boo. Also, at my last apartment the maintenance men came in after knocking 3 times rapid fire. Just barged in. One stayed at the door, obviously uncomfortable. And the other one went all through the apartment claiming he left his laptop in there. He did not. Turns out he was doing this with any apartment that had a woman under the age of 30 living there. He walked in on a girl taking a shower and she sued. After that (after at least 15 complaints that he was doing this) they fired him.
We allowed rabbits where I worked, we just had to write a special clause into the lease about it. I used to be an "office manager" at an apartment complex (the office person is NOT your landlord, just fyi, but they certainly get the death threats intended for the landlord).
i'm actually taking my bunnies to my moms house tonight because we have inspection coming any time this coming week and they're not allowed here either lol
I can sue? A maintenance man just came in my apartment, and knocked on the bathroom door. I assumed it was the front door (bc no way)and stepped out naked to get dressed. It was very frightening.
Ngl i really dont mind helping my friends move. My lack of reluctance helps when asking them to help me when I move. It's a wonderful recycling of "i owe you one"
After my family pays rent we are left with $128.00 a month for everything else. We are making it work. But if we have a Great Depression 2.0 in the US we will be last to know because it will not change our lifestyle. The only ones who it will hurt is the people who have money. We know how to have fun for free. So good luck for everyone else in the new year.
The people who decided we shouldn't pay more than 30% of our income for rent, should really meet up with the landlords who expect you to be able to make 3 X's rent money; and figure out what went wrong, and where
Landlords typically want you to make at least 3x rent. That means if rent is more than 33% of your gross income, they won't rent to you. But having rent as 33% of your gross income is a very high percentage. The United States National Housing Act of 1937 created public housing that would charge people no more than 30% of their income. They determined that people who spend more than 30% of their income on housing are in a precarious position. This was squished down to 28% for rent and 30% with utilities. Mortgage lenders generally won't lend to you if the monthly costs would be more than 28% of your income. Landlords rounded it up to 33% for rent because they don't care what other bills you don't pay, as long as you keep paying them. This rule was created almost 90 years ago but it'd held pretty true. If anything, people should be spending significantly *less* on housing than 30% because there are so many more bills today than there were 90 years ago, especially the cost of healthcare and childcare.
My grandparents are moving into a senior community, and the moving company that's highly recommended will sort everything into keep/for family members/donate/trash/sell. They'll auction off anything valuable for you, curate a selection of sentimental (but no longer room for) mementos to give to kids/grandkids, do the moving(obviously) with extreme care, and take the donated items to relevant charities that need them. Of course the pricetag is quite frankly alarming, though.
Im currently on month 3 of living in my car and I'm saving a crazy amount of money not having to deal with this bs. Im thinking of just getting a nice van, Probably going to need a apocalypse mobile soon anyways. Glad I came across this video though it reminded me why I started doing this. Hit close to home... and my home is a 2015 ford focus 😁
The fees after move out in apartments is brutal. When I left an apartment I was renting I got hit with what was a cumulative $20,000 fine It was supposed to be 5000 per person with four people living in the apartment but because I was the primary signer the other three did not get hit with that amount and they gave me the full 20K fine. I saw that on my credit report every time I checked it for over 7 years. Fuck. Landlords.
How did you get a $20k fine?!? Was that for breaking your lease? Some places will try to force you to pay for the rest of the year if you want to move early.
Renting a uhaul, learning last minute there are bridges around manhattan that don’t allow trucks, and moving couches down 5 flights down stairs unlocked a new strength in me I didn’t know I had
When I left my last apartment I paid to have the oven professionally cleaned and the leasing company STILL tried to charge me for it. They just automatically add it without even looking. Thankfully I was able to dispute that charge.
Our landlady (A RETIRED DOCTOR) has been refusing to replace all the broken windows, we’ve been here four years and there was already two broken panes. These windows are the original ones from the sixties, and yeah I’m slightly concerned about lead paint, and so fragile my CAT SHATTERED ONE!! (My cat had also just come back after being missing and was underweight and weak. He’s NOT A BIG CAT EITHER WAY! HOW?!) She’s trying to get one of those state housing security places to pay for them. Most of the broken windows are in my room (it’s a converted sunroom) and this winter was tough with how many storms we got
Not sure where you live, but if it's a safety issue you might be able to get the city involved and they'll make her fix them. I think it's called a slum lord law here. We have some shady landlords around here and I had to do that with an apartment that had no carpet where there should have been and holes that went all the way to the outside. They fined her and made her fix it after we moved out.
@@chzybean Oh yeah I’ve been meaning to look our state’s up for ages. I just hope we won’t have to leave if we report her, our biggest obstacle is finding a place that would allow all our pets and that’s incredibly hard even without taking into account that I don’t have a job yet (there are quite literally no options, I live on a true Island) and my Ma, the only other person in the household, is on disability/retirement whatever it’s technically called Life’s tough lol 😅
When I moved the last time, I rented a small storage unit for a couple of bucks and slowly moved my stuff there over the course of some weeks. When I moved to the new apartment, I did the same over a couple of days. Of course, I was a student and didn't have any expensive furniture but just some cheap Ikea stuff, which I sold for pennies to get rid of it. However, this idea might work for you when you have little stuff or can afford to get rid of the more bulky things. It might be really annoying as it takes more time overall, but for me, it was great as I could do it at my own leisure pace.
haha, one time I used an apartment finder company that didn't even vet the leasing party. Turned put that the guy was the son of the owner, and that she was letting him stay there rent free to get back up on his feet, but he turned around and rented it for $800/month including utilities (studio apartment in 2008 Chicago) and was pocketing every cent. It all seemed cool and above board until I started waking up to find the one and only door to the unit unlocked in the morning after going to bed, and culminated in his mom strolling in on me chilling at home, she was all "who tf are you?" and I'm all "the renter, who tf are you and how tf do you have a key???" and she was all "I own this place, where's my son?" and maaaaaan, she wanted to murder him when we figured it out. Thankfully she was cool about it and even offered me a rent-to-own arrangement, but literally a month later my job went belly up during the recession. TBH I wasn't at all surprised because the entire time I was living there I kept getting court papers served to me citing the dude's various luxury car repossession proceedings. What a scumbag.
Here’s where shits gotten real… Covid has turned my tiny town from ok affordability to BF nowhere Chicago! Rent on a three bedroom trailer went from $450 a month with lawn care included….. to $1000 a month nothing included!!! All because rich people want to leave the city!!! We have our first HOA!!!!
I am going through that right now moving from DC to Seattle. I got quotes of $5k to move a bunch of flat pack ikea furniture. I added it up and it is less than half the cost to just rebuy my furniture than pay someone to move my stuff.
I just moved from Florida to Seattle, sell that shit or rent a truck yourself. I got quotes of 2-3k and then once they had my stuff they jacked it up to 5k lol. I should have just sold the big stuff and rented a van.
I'm glad somebody has the balls to say this stuff! 😂❤ Everyone else wants to act like moving apartments is wonderful. Lol, let me tell you, the first time I moved out of my first apartment and into my second, it was the most stressful thing I've ever experienced, and that's not an exaggeration. The second apartment complex kept telling me they were literally working on fixing the apartment because it was in such disrepair from the last tenant. On moving day, I literally didn't know if I would be able to move in or not, with the moving trucks heading over there and the complex not having given me the keys yet. 😮 Again, I wish I was making this up, but I'm not. It was dreadful. Just imagine having all your furniture moved, paying these companies to move all your stuff, and on moving day, you still don't know if you've been approved and if you're officially moving in. 😂 It was a nightmare, and I wouldn't wish that anxiety on anybody. It was terrible, and I have warned everybody about moving into the complex I'm at now because their communication sucks. You're probably wondering why I even moved there. It's because I don't make enough money to afford living at a better complex right now. But it was one step up from the crime-ridden complex I was at before, so at least I'm somewhere safer. But yeah, I wouldn't wish apartment moving on anybody. It is the most stressful, overbearing calamity ever for a human being to endure! P.S. Does anyone else wonder what they do with all that money they get from people? Like, seriously, where does it go? 😂 You pay them such exorbitant amounts per month, and you don't see it go anywhere! Am I the only one who thinks that's nuts? It's insane! You pay them that much, and they don't do anything with it, apparently! Someone needs to hire a private investigator and track down where all this monthly rent goes, seriously. LOL 🤣
If enough people decide to learn how to homestead we will never need to doomsday prep but they’re both marketing terms that effectively produce the same result except for paranoia. Applied physics, earth wind water and fire… most of my cohorts are blind to how elements work on a basic level.
Tip I learned on TH-cam: the day you move into the apartmemt buy a newspaper with that days date on it and before any of the boxes go on take pictures of any damages or scratches u see in the apartment with the newspaper in the picture. That way u have proof if ur landlord tries to blame you for the damages
I fell for one of those scams and even got a fake key. It sucks so much ass. They even had pictures of the inside of an apartment. I lost like $600 that i'll never get back.
I tried to rent an apartment off Craigslist. Nice little shotgun shack type house in the city for a good price. Guy says "yeah sign the lease, send me the deposit, and I'll mail you the keys because I am out of town." I thought huh? I told him "I'll just pick up the keys when he's back because my move date is like a month away." He's said "are you accusing me of being a scammer?!?! I assure you I am not and take offense for you implying that." Talk about showing your hand lmao
I'm moving out of my parents and into my first apartment literally next week, and now I don't think I want to anymore. This video stressed me out so much more than I already am, wish me luck.
As someone who has had to move 3 times in the past 4 years because our lease ended when the owners wanted to sell the house, this last time we finally just decided to pay a few people in cash (per hour) for their time. Make it an hourly wage that is an incentive for them spending their time doing it, but is still way cheaper than a moving company. Definitely better than offering food, which they could easily just buy for themselves and have a WAAAAY better day! lol. Luckily some high schoolers we knew were down to make some money.
Fun fact: Since moving into this shit hole rental house that I pay a fortune for each month, I've mudded, sanded, and painted more than a hundred holes left by previous tenants that the landlord did shit-all about before I moved in. I'm going to really enjoy it when I eventually move out and am charged for "repairs" on walls that I left in vastly better condition than I was provided with when I moved in.
You cant talk about moving trucks and not bring up the can opener bridge, its got a whole youtube channel its great. Its just a bridge that happens to hate moving trucks, just strips the tops off of one of them every few months.
Oh, we have one of those! It's like a 10 foot and some change clearance instead of 11 foot and all the hopefuls who have never driven anything bigger than a sedan just tuna can the absolute crap out of an Enterprise or Penske truck. Highly entertaining if you manage to catch it in action.
the fact that they kind of just let anyone with a driver's license drive a U-haul truck (even just the basic trucks, not just talking about the trailers) is greatly concerning to me.
Damn, that "new landlord" example is exactly my current landlord. Although, he's the reason I don't move. My apartments is too expensive for being basically a kennel with no air flow, it sucks, it's the worst. BUT, also, I see my landlord only once per year when we need to renew the contract. And that's worth a lot.
When we moved out, the property manager did a walk through with us, and said nothing about problems. Two weeks later the land dork refused to give us the security deposit back because of a supposed cat urine smell. We responded by saying that, legally, they needed to have given us notice of that already. Then we were given half our money back. We could've taken him to court, but it just wasn't worth it.
Uhaul is shady as fuck. I reserved one of their small ass vans to move my daughter 300 hundred miles back to college 5 months in advance. Went up to pick up said FULLY PAID FOR VAN and they were like, "Sorry out of vans, but we have a truck ready for TWICE THE PRICE, take it or leave it! LOL!" and we HAD to take the fucking truck. Did they warn me in advance that they had no vans? No, of course not. Was the truck comedically empty and wind up costing me $500 in gas? Yes, of course. Absolute scam artists.
My wife and I bought our first house last year and we paid 150% more than the previous owner did when she bought it in 2018. You shouldn't buy a house either. It's all bad.
Tampa has problems, but there is nowhere much better in Florida lol, I moved to St Pete for a few years, better but also expensive. I left the state this year and will never move back.
My rent went up almost 8%. They don’t even give us a cost of living 2-4% raise anymore. At this point rate I will soon have no other options but to move apartments. Into a box.
My mom and younger siblings had to move out of the house they were renting because the landlords daughter wanted it. They almost ended up on the streets. There were NO houses or apartments around, because of the Air BnB's and other things where people come just for the summer, or for a few weeks. I currently live with my grandparents, and she and my siblings would have had to try to cram in here with us if she wasn't able to find a place in the end.
We lost almost everything in a move about a decade ago. My great grandmother was on hospice, so we moved from Oregon to Southern Missouri to help my grandma while SHE helped her dying mom. My mam, while extremely competent, does not actually do great in a crisis. So we were trying to cross the country in like, 2 days, like my great grandma was going to die the next day (spoiler - she lived about 6 more months). Basically, my mom found the absolute cheapest moving company she could find - and we were already leaving pretty much ALL of our furniture, so we were just trying to pack our daily necessities and things that were irreplaceable. Except, when they showed up, the truck was charging us not for the weight of our load, but the space available on the truck, which already had someone ELSE's shit in it. My mom HAD signed a contract for the estimated price based on rate, but they showed up with a completely different contract carried exclusively by people who did not speak English. She signed it because again, crisis mode, and we left. But they charged us double what we were quoted and we couldn't pay, so they put our belongings in a storage unit under the truck driver's name?????? held ransom until we paid, which we couldn't. It turned out it was a scam business based in florida. so we lost 80% of our belongings apart from most of our clothes and whatever else we decided to put in our luggage in the car.
We carried an oven, stove and all our clothes and smaller items in my tiny VW Golf, poor thing was barely moving but we weren’t gonna pay anyone for something we can do ourselves. The true moving experience is doing a ton of trips and screaming and yelling at each other along the way ❤
Tip number one. Take a video of the apartment when you move in before any furnitures in so that any scuff any broken thing any anything is on film. Also when you leave before you hand in the key take a video of everything so if they try to say the oven was dirty they it wasn't cleaned etc etc you have proof that it was. Videos are your lifeline
My bf and I were SHOOK when we got our security deposit back when we moved out of our apartment, especially because we were so stressed when moving out we didn't even bother to clean that much. And then the landlord sent us an email thanking us for leaving the apartment in such great condition lmao
As someone who goes through Omaha twice a year i have to say it is absolutely horrible. I had a dude on meth try to get into my hotel room that smelled like cigarettes and death
Thankfully my landlord isn’t terrible. There’s a tenant portal where we pay rent and request repairs. We had our water heater replaced the next day. The only thing that sucks is that our rent went up a hundred dollars last year but we’re able to make it.
I live in Washington and my rent is $1800 :( it’s not even a nice enough town to justify it either, If you want to do anything besides walk around Walmart you have to drive an hour
I'm 25 and live with my mom and stepdad in a rural area in the States. I don't think I'll ever be able to afford my own home, especially since I have debt to pay off for college and I'm a teacher. My aunt has 3 kids and had to move in with her mom after divorcing her abusive husband. Despite having a Master's degree, she can't afford a home, even after remarrying. My mom was retired and has to work a full-time job now. While it is common for retired folks to work part-time or volunteer, it's insane that she worked her ass off for years and retired only to have to return to the workforce completely bc of the economy. The low-end cost of an apartment with no utilities provided is $2k where I live. That's INSANE! It used to be $1k a month with utilities and appliances included in the same apartment complex.
Yes moving absolutely sucks but sometimes staying is a lot worse than moving. Because apartments also have this fun little thing where if you renew your lease they up your monthly payments some times by 200 or more dollars. Love your videos Biggy T
Fun fact I live in an apartment complex owned by a management company and while they are good about fixing things, they require a 60 day notice for moving out and only do a year lease at a time. My roommate and I tried to move to another apartment owned by the same company (so there would be no loss of money), and they would not allow us to move out of our current apartment ten days late. So we are stuck. Also they refuse to exterminate the mice.
Ohh No. I’m in foreclosure with 4 kids, 3 cats & a doggo…. As a newly single mom. Well for two years I’ve been running rapid to stay afloat but now I’m struggling to find a place! Ayee….. Can’t even listen! Stay blessed everyone! Have hope❤️
Good news! If you REALLY love your landlord, who TOTALLY does everything they should, you can reward them by pouring your leftover animal fats down the drains before you move.
PSA! Ask a realtor friend for contact info of a moving company they trust and include that realtors name when you book. They even if they are scummy they will usually not fuck you because they risk missing a lot of referrals
My pitch for underrated Minnesota: Why do people love NYC so much? It's like a financial Hunger Games. Sticking with the Twin Cities for me. Bunch of Fortune 500s, decent legislation, top-notch education and healthcare, and NYC's COL is 145% higher, with 456% higher housing costs, but pay there is only 9.2% more than in Minneapolis. We consistently top the lists for happiest place in the country. Want a lakeplace, cheap as possible? If you're okay with something rustic or outdated, you can get a cabin or house on a lake for $50k. Deadass. You can own an ISLAND in Minnesota for under $100k. They hardly ever come up for sale, but I've come across two for sale for under $95k in the past 5 years, without even looking. Recently renovated 3bd 2ba, with a yard, within a 10 minute block walk of a park, and a 10-15 minute drive to downtown? $350k. Luxury one bedroom apartment in downtown will run you $1,300-$1750 per month. Y'all are nuts. A flight from here to New England is like $65. Can just fly in whenever we want to access the NYC amenities, because we actually have income to spend.
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You tugg, listen to some mlp songs
(Stand for everfree, under our spell etc.)
I used your code and now they won’t let me cancel my subscription the only option is to skip a month or email/ call the place to cancel and I’m not calling anyone so thanks dude :/
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You forgot it also Men’s Mental Health month
This is kinda random, but I listened to Alvin Flames, and I really liked it. It kind of reminded me of this band called Arrested Youth, I'm not sure why.
Im not strong enough to carry an apartment.
Edit: You're 100% right, I gotta get stronger, starting tonight I'm squatting apartments. Thank you for inspiring me.
That's tough hit the gym lil bro
Yeah, get lost spaghetti arms
I’m gonna move my entire neighbourhood some place else like In that one SpongeBob episode
You got soft hands, boyeh💪🗿
Why don't you just push it?
Deportation creates housing space
My dad, a former landlord, doesn’t understand why everyone hates landlords. For context, when it comes to landlords, he’s pretty decent. Priced the property competitively, allowed animals, fixed stuff on time, etc. But I keep having to explain to him that he’s the exception to the rule and most landlords are absolute nightmares. When he heard my sister’s story of her having mold and the water go unfixed for months, I think he finally got it
Your father is clearly not fit for the job 😂
He’s too pure for this job 😂
Can we clone your dad and replace all other landlords with his clones? That would be ideal 😭
Your father unfortunately suffers from a condition called empathy and has a tumor called a heart.
how sad😔@@Corydon811
I forget where I heard this (probably on Twitter), but I'll never forget the person who said that they once left a small gift basket as a sign of appreciation for their old landlord when they moved out and the landlord charged them for "removal of leftover personal belongings" because of it
absolutely evil and heartless individual
hope he didnt pay for it lol
THATS LITERALLY WHAT HAPPENED TO ME💀
I remember reading this too! You need to be such an awful human being to do that
actual soulless individuals
"Dude you need to move out of your parents house."
"WOULD LOVE TO! BUT THE HOUSE MARKETS TO BUSY POOR SHAMING ME!!!"
Pro tip: buy your dad pillows for father's day. I have absolutely no statistics backing this up but my dad's pillows were about as thick as a piece of paper, and something tells me there's a lot of widowed/single dads out there who aren't treating themselves to some better sleeping accessories.
Too late for father's day, but I will finally have something to give him this Christmaswr!
And get him a silk pillowcase. I mean a good one. I think he would like it. I love mine but why should only women have them? Very nice feeling on your face
@@rediocre4350Go outside to a store and buy one then. You don't have to get everything over Amazon.
@@LKMNOP FACTSSS I have a silk pillowcase and it's so great!!! (hardest part is getting out of bed lol)
damm bro i got him frozen yogurt
The worst scam is an application fee. Like- “pay us $20-$40 for a CHANCE you’ll live here”
And 90% of the time you don’t get that apartment
20 or 40 bucks? Lol hahahahaha it’s like a 100 bucks on average just to get an application. Sad honestly Man I can’t wait till this Dementia old resident gets out of office, we are all going to drown in debt and starve to death, if things keep going like they are
Most of the time that's actually for the background check it said that they can pay for it on their end cuz they don't want to pay for it for you not to get in so if they're charging you like 20-25 bucks then that's fair but anything more than that and it's a scam
@@johnd8553yeah I just put in an application for one and it was $40 me and my fiancé had to do separate ones
Some places charge up to $150 for the application fee.
I live in NC and it’s 50-75 per anyone over 18
Seeing rent be near $1K on the LOW END is horrific. It was just five years ago that I could find a decent place for like $600 a month, I have been forced to move back in with family to be able to afford to survive due to rent prices skyrocketing where I live.
i feel you, i
Another reason i still stay in same apartment. Rent + shared tenant water cost usally equals about $660 at most a month
Yeah they expect us to be able to afford this smh
Same. Despite having a degree and a "real job" I literally cannot afford to pay rent in my city and had to move back in with my family in my 30s.
When I went looking for an apartment out of high school (around 2017-2018) rent for studio apartments was around $1500 a month in the Portland (OR) metro area. I don't even want to imagine what it looks like now
"It's better to know your devil than to meet a new one" is such a raw and powerful line and I did NOT expect it from Big Tugg himself.
The good news: We're building more apartments.
The bad news: We need more apartments.
Bad news, all the new apartments that we're building are luxury apartments that will cost you 75 percent of your income even if you have a semi-decent paying job.
@@richgerow3472worse news is these “luxury” apartments aren’t even very luxury. Just new. New is now luxury lmao.
These 2-5s have wood walls. You gonna hear all your neighbors. The balcony is just a sliding door to a fence. The only thing that makes it luxury is the appliances are nicer than basic. Besides that, none of these new “luxury” apartments seem luxurious to me at all.
@@richgerow3472That's good actually, that's the only way you can get affordable apartments because of restrictive zoning and fees to build. If you wait 10 years they'll become affordable 🎉
Bad news..Rich pepole buy the affordable apparents then rent them out to poor popple for duble what they are worth. This way poor people know their place and will never be able to own anything.
@@richgerow3472
Oof! And then people wonder why more and more younger generations can't afford to move out... 0_0
My sister just moved into her new apartment and the agent had the balls to say she "checked the appartment" and mentioned everything was great but that my sister could list things that might need fixing at the apartment.
She then proceeds to find that the stove did not heat up, the washing machine shook to the point where it was running out the door, and the AC didn't work in the middle of July. So yes, always ask and always check things yourself.
When we left our last condo, I paid a professional cleaning service to come in & took photos of EVERYTHING. there was a broken bbq in the backyard when we moved in & i had the foresight to photograph that. The mgmt company wanted to keep our $2k deposit & charge us $1.4k to repair the bbq (it was a big built-in. Very nice looking. We never used it). We took them to small claims & won, so we got our deposit+court costs+the money i paid to the professional cleaners.
I will bet my bottom dollar they had zero intention of ever fixing that bbq and the only reason they have it is so they can deliberately keep it broken so they can charge people fees to pretend to fix it. Landlords are bottomfeedibg subhuman swine.
I'm so proud of you stranger
What was it like dealing with the small claims court?
That sounds great but how much time did you spend so that you could break even? (Not saying you shouldn't do it at all! Just kinda crazy that you had to put in a ton of work to just not LOSE money)
kind of a dumb question but how do you prove the pictures were taken when you just moved in?
I’ve noticed more apartments around me charging by person rather than the space, so you can’t even save money by moving in with friends 🙃🙃
That should be illegal, seriously doubt that they can hold that up in court if you took em there
@@MichaelClemons00good luck affording court
@@AdershokRift2029 true too lol
Don’t tell them they there
If I have to unassemble my bedframe just to reassemble it one more time, I'm going to sue someone
I kept my Allen wrench for mine, just in case. It was easier to put together than my nightstand
There's nothing saying you have to have a bedframe, if you already have a bedspring then just put that sucker directly on the ground
Best thing that's stupid kind of screw thing that fits into a slot on the frame but somehow doesn't
@@Weatherman4Evasome of us like to have the storage that you can put under a frame. Great place for shoes when they're out of season. And extra quilts for that matter. And for those of us who are not that young, it's difficult to get up off a little bit. Very difficult lol lol
@@DunkinCrew Man up and get a hex key set
I'm not even out of high school and I'm already scared of what I'm gonna do when I get out of college and the housing market is worse
Start saving, stay with your parents as long as possible and create a family budget
Skip college. Trade school jobs pay better, and the debt of a college degree that will be obsolete by your junior year isn’t worth it.
@@ChiakiNanami736 I can't skip college, I'm gonna be an electrical engineer. Can't get hired for that if I don't have a degree, but thank you anyway, I appreciate the attempt.
Don’t electrical engineers go to trade schools
@@notdeadyet382electrical engineer here working at a company building industrial washers. Got my associates at the local community College, did lots of learning on my own as well. Stay curious and don't be afraid to ask questions. Good luck.
Its really frustrating to have someone tell you to just buy a home, and when they tell you "You'll get it eventually bro!" and here I am struggling to pay my 700 a month rent, on top of other expenses at my shitty job, while they have a big house and rich parents. Its like...just so tone deaf.
Genuinely trying to be helpful here, PLEASE look into FHA and down payment assistance programs in your area. I managed to buy my own condo in denver on a single income that was about half the median income (thankfully got a couple raises since then but it's still not much). I did get lucky in a lot of ways, but I also put in a lot of work and had to wait quite some time for an FHA-approved property to come available in the area I needed. My mortgage is about half the average cost of rent here and I'm actually building equity. There ARE affordable homeownership options for people with low incomes!!
Lmao is 1700 where I live
literally just had a conversation with a family friend, she's an older retired woman and owns a condo in florida her and her husband used as a vacation home. They're looking to sell it now and she was saying they bought it in 2010 for $220k and they're getting offers between 700-800k on it right now. She kept saying how happy they were to be making so much money and then immediately asked why i havent bought a house yet. I wanted to drop kick her lol. "Ohhhh i dunno it just seems like every house these days costs between $700-800k!"
Nobody said you had to buy the house all by yourself. One reason previous generations were able to afford homes was because they had cosigners (marriage) and their homes were on average 3 times smaller than homes built today. It is possible.
Ooo I hate ppl with rich parents who are so out of touch
11:55 I have a comparison, renting a car. You go online, reserve a mid-size sedan, and then get to the rental place and all they have are 3 full-sized SUVs that get 10 MPG going downhill, 2 sub-compacts, a minivan, and a full-sized sedan with a busted motor
You can smell the incoming housing crash
You can hear the recession too
only another 20 years to go
At least we have Scentbird to cover the rank and depressing stink of the impending crisis!
People were shouting "housing crisis 2.0" 6 years ago, and I waited for it to happen, and I'm still waiting, except now the same houses costs twice as much as they did back then.
@@Kentama Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
People can't predict when things are going to change but they know the current conditions are unsustainable.
Literally just decided to move 95% of my stuff myself because I’ve had experience with how much moving companies suck, but I forgot I’m 36 and I threw out my back doing it and oh my GOD, I still have to try to clean the oven at my old place tomorrow, this is actual hell
Aaaaaaagh I hope your back feels better now, good job gettin all that done!
I'm old enough to remember when apartments were for people just starting out and save up for a house. Or if you were single. Idk. Life sucks now and it won't change until we stand up and finally break out the guillotines.
Or move out of the country. A better move for some
@@BLET_55artem55 America's economy affects everyone. I was looking into England, but they're having just as many problems as us.
It’s the same up here in Canada too
@@lexiheart6558 well, Eastern Europea, mid-east and Asia are always an option (each has it's own pros and cons, obvious and hidden)
I've had my pitchfork and torch ready for years. There's 330 million of us and like 100 of the top .01% who have all our money. Why the fuck aren't we at their gates demanding it back??
3:50 the bottom tier of maslow’s heirachy is accurately the most vital of needs. Once the lower levels are achieved, the higher levels become easier to achieve
I'm glad you understand shitty rentals. Some people talk like "It's better to rent. You just call your landlord when you have an issue and it's solved." I'm like who the fuck are you renting from?
I've talked to my landlord to fix my shower because one of the walls is peeling off. Then a corpo bought the property and I'm now putting a file together because they won't even return my calls about reimbursement for when one of the complex's poorly maintained trees broke my car window when a very big and heavy branch crushed another tenant's car.
I see you've got a slumlord then
It makes me so mad when people say "there's someone to fix all the issues!" I've lived in this place almost three years and it's been under constant construction for 2 1/2, because the contractor will come for a few hours every three months. I haven't seen my landlord since I moved in.
I am the literal only person I know that has a landlord that timely fixes issues.
AND ITS ONLY BC THE MAINTENANCE GUY LIKES TALKING TO ME ABOUT MY COMIC COLLECTION
which, hey, it’s fun to talk to the guy but the fact that that’s one of the only reasons I get such a fast response and repair???? Extremely unfair to literally everyone else in my apartment complex that I’ve heard takes almost 2 weeks to get things fixed when I get responses within 2-3 days.
I've rented from 3 larger property management companies in Toronto and all 3 have had multiple on site building managers that also live in the building to take care of these issues. These aren't fancy buildings either, they're older and don't have a bunch of amenities.
Once though I did have to call 311 (non-emergency services) to launch an investigation in my previous building because half the laundry machines in the building were broken and it was causing issues with machine availability. 311 came on site within a week and told the building if they didn't fix the machines within 3 months they'd start incurring a daily fine for each day they remained broken. They fixed them really fast after that (like within a month).
The horror stories I hear from people here are mainly with mom and pop landlords, since they're a lot harder to hold them accountable and get help with maintenance, especially if they don't even live in Toronto themselves . I do think we have decent tenant protections here though that make the big companies behave this way. They aren't just doing it out of their own good-will, they're doing it to avoid hefty fines that come with poor maintenance. Not saying it's perfect and some people do have bad experiences here, but there are also a lot of buildings that are decent to rent from.
So basically, apartments suck, so get a house, but you can't get a house, so get an apartment. But even then, you can barely afford one, so you have to ask one of your family members or friends if you can live with them, and then they're going to hate you because they no longer have their own space anymore. YOU CAN'T WIN
The moving company I drove a truck for totally did this. The salesman under quoted them, then the company hiked up the price because of all the "extra items". I would show up and tell them the inflated price and they would balk. My orders were not to release their belongings without payment first. I didn't find out they did this until towards the end. I felt disgusted that i was unknowingly a part of this. I was glad they were raided by the FBI a little after I left.
Are there any moving companies that don't do this?
Everyone I talked to got underquoted and then the quotes changed once the stuff was on the truck, and if you try to stand your ground they charge you hundreds a day in "storage costs."
@@GrifHowe If you go to one of the major legit moving companies like Mayflower or American Van Lines it will cost you A LOT, but all costs are upfront and you will get what you pay for.
The problem is that people are scared of the high price so look for cheaper options. Most of the cheaper options are there to hook you in, then hit you with hidden costs that end up costing you more, but by then they have your stuff and it's too late. Overweight, packaging, long carry, flights of stairs - all extra. Unfortunately sometimes the customer doesn't bother looking at the contract, or doesn't tell the movers about the fact that there is no elevator for your fourth floor apartment. Then when he doesn't have enough money, an argument ensues.
We also would only accept cash or postal money order since checks can be canceled after services.
As a person who grew up in the Bronx I can say the apartments there aren't bad as long as you don't mind hearing gun shots, having drug addicts around, strange smells in the hallways, roofs nearly collapsing in, water leaks, angry rats in the garbage that will attack if you get near and it being generally unsafe to go outside at night if you don't know what you're doing. Besides that 5/10 experience would never go again.
I still live with my parents. They can't seem to understand why the concept of moving out gets me spiraling.
Show then this video
Just tell them to find an apartment for you and tell them to tour it themselves.
@laiyalaiya6088 My parents think that buying an apartment is stupid. But me buying a house in this economy at slightly above minimum wage? I don't think so.
@@TheKhfan001 how the hell are you gonna buy a house with the interest rates at 8%??? Have they looked into the economy at all? What makes them think you’ll get approved for a loan on a house but not an apartment cause news flash you won’t for either ! They need to find the house for you since they know everything! I’m sure if you could leave you would’ve been left
I just told my sis what my monthly income was (less than $1700) and then she began to realize why I can’t afford my own place, gas, groceries, etc
the way I am literally packing up to move into my first apartment at 21 right now. I definitely do not make enough money to sustain myself, but I am fortunate enough to have my dad help me with rent and monthly expenses. Plus, I was given a little bit of financial aid from my university, which will cover rent, groceries, and the like. The monthly rent for my apartment is $1250 for a one-bedroom one-bath. It is definitely high compared to some American cities in the Midwest, but I live in Dallas, Texas, and $1250 is honestly on the low end. I am very grateful to have this taste of independence, but I often worry how much longer my dad will have to help me make ends meet.
Literally had a nightmare of an experience with Uhaul recently. Loaded up and then went to get gas before hitting the road - fuel tank leaks everything I just put into it all over the ground at the pump. Called roadside and waited an hour (outside in the Texas summer) for a tech to come glue the tank back together. Get gas again and it leaks again. Waited another 2 hours for the same tech to come back and do the same thing. Leaves without telling us anything. Called again and roadside sent him back - another several hours. At this point, it was hours after my rental was due back in and it was almost midnight. Left him working on it and went to bed. In the morning, i drive it to drop my stuff off and lo and behold, still leaking fuel. Unloaded and dropped it off at the closest location because it was such a hazard. Then had to fight with customer service for over a month to get the dropoff fee removed and refunds for the gas that I put in and drained out. It was the biggest nightmare of my life and I'm never using them ever again
We ordered their smallest truck. Got there and all they had was a fucking 28-footer. For an efficiency apartment. Got stuck in the mud for literal days because the truck itself was so heavy. Absolute nightmare.
As someone who lives in Albuquerque NM I can say that apartments are kinda cheaper here but unless you want said apartment to be broken into I would not suggest getting one here.
(Edit) That last part sounded like a threat, do please take it as one
Why is Albuquerque so wild? I went to visit and my cousin wouldn't let me drive my car there because he was too worried it would get fucked up and made me take his old beater.
@@GrifHowe idk abq just sucks all the time. Every time I go out I'm so god damn stressed when I'm in a car because of how much most of everyone here absolutely sucks at driving.
The "only person I lie to about smoking weed" was the the most valid thing in this video
Either that or "the only reason I've ever cleaned an oven"
@@vincentvangogodanceror the one about driving the moving truck with no experience 😂
Ill never forget the day i checked out my first apartment... They wanted my Social Security Number "to check my credit score" and so i refused and walked out. Lady was all "youll likely not get the place without giving us the Social number..." I said cool and left. She called me within 30 minutes saying the apartment was mine if i wanted and that there were other apartments available if i wanted to check them out. Scummy scummy, rotten tummy.
One thing that I know you forgot to mention that is currently happening to me is having an eviction on your record.
I ended up having to go on medical leave for 3 months from work because of a torn rotator cuff and since they didn't give me my full pay while I was on medical leave
.. I ended up losing my apartment.
So now not only do I owe the apartment complex money, but no one else will rent to me because of the eviction on my record.
Even though I have a full-time job and the money for the down payment. I live in my car and shower at the gym.
But don't worry about that last apartment complex I pretty much said feck you and I never paid them and I never will. 😂
Same thing happened to me and i had them send me a letter shkwing i paid my debt in full. I was able to take that letter to get a new apt. This wont help u get out of ur car but if ur able to put money back pay it off and u should be able to get a place. Bless
Sounds illegal as hell like what?? Can't you file a claim against both your job and the complex? Like genuinely.
Have you tried renting a room in a house? They usually have very uninvolved landlords that live across the country and won't even check your renters history. Good luck
With a lot of the companies that come in and buy up apartments and then rent them back to us, not only is rent really expensive, but sometimes it's unfortunate where you have to make the call between a medical condition or a roof over your head.
And that's obvious bullshit, and it shouldn't be like that. The fact is, these companies just don't care.
I've looked into some other options; I have tried to find ppl either looking for a roommate or has a room to rent out.
Some of these places are sketchy, I did almost get scammed at least once, but I was able to back out before any money was taken.
There's been a lot of shady risks that I just don't want to take, and I came out here with no friends or family.
I don't want to make the post too long, but in context, Iwas disowned by my family nearly 10 years ago, and they don't even know what state I live in. I pulled myself away from them on purpose, and I don't have anybody to rely on in that sense.
The back to the issue of housing at hand, there are some government housing institutions I can look into, but most of the wait lists are over 2 years long and they're going to prioritize a family over a single person, like myself, which I completely understand.
So I just keep going to work grinding, showering at the gym, doing what I can to get by and save up money. I am seeing a therapist who is helping to connect me with other sources, if need be, but at the moment, I'm kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place.
It's at times like this that I'm glad that I have some camping and survival skills, so I basically just fashion by car to feel like I'm living in a tent with 4 wheels.
It's not the best, but it's certainly not the worst. I appreciate everyone's concerns and I'm going to go back through these replies in the morning and see if there's any possible suggestions that I might have missed.
Thanks you guys.
@@Noctali_Volkova I wish I could, but the most they'd tell me to do is just pay what I owe. I mean, I get that's common sense, but it's almost down to just principle now, ya know?
Tucker... You can do what I did, I was in the most disgusting place ever, with some nice roommates, I moved to a place twice as expensive where I had to live with the landlord, and see him in a fit of rage started to destroy things just to then turn around and steal half my food, so now I live back with my parents
Apartments also do not allow bunnies. Boo.
Also, at my last apartment the maintenance men came in after knocking 3 times rapid fire. Just barged in. One stayed at the door, obviously uncomfortable. And the other one went all through the apartment claiming he left his laptop in there. He did not. Turns out he was doing this with any apartment that had a woman under the age of 30 living there. He walked in on a girl taking a shower and she sued. After that (after at least 15 complaints that he was doing this) they fired him.
We allowed rabbits where I worked, we just had to write a special clause into the lease about it. I used to be an "office manager" at an apartment complex (the office person is NOT your landlord, just fyi, but they certainly get the death threats intended for the landlord).
That man needs to be jailed
i'm actually taking my bunnies to my moms house tonight because we have inspection coming any time this coming week and they're not allowed here either lol
@@GoddoDoggo Imagine passing those messages on akin to a "compliments to the chef" type person
I can sue? A maintenance man just came in my apartment, and knocked on the bathroom door. I assumed it was the front door (bc no way)and stepped out naked to get dressed. It was very frightening.
Ngl i really dont mind helping my friends move.
My lack of reluctance helps when asking them to help me when I move. It's a wonderful recycling of "i owe you one"
I live in Seattle. You can make $200k a year and still get denied for an apartment
seattle is fucking expensive
I'm about 2 1/2 ours from you in Salem, OR. It's getting ridiculous here too.
Tugg misunderstanding how the triangle works really fits him for some reason
Bro seems so chill but so pissed off too
Passive aggressive
Passionate
After my family pays rent we are left with $128.00 a month for everything else. We are making it work. But if we have a Great Depression 2.0 in the US we will be last to know because it will not change our lifestyle. The only ones who it will hurt is the people who have money. We know how to have fun for free. So good luck for everyone else in the new year.
The people who decided we shouldn't pay more than 30% of our income for rent, should really meet up with the landlords who expect you to be able to make 3 X's rent money; and figure out what went wrong, and where
Landlords typically want you to make at least 3x rent. That means if rent is more than 33% of your gross income, they won't rent to you. But having rent as 33% of your gross income is a very high percentage.
The United States National Housing Act of 1937 created public housing that would charge people no more than 30% of their income. They determined that people who spend more than 30% of their income on housing are in a precarious position.
This was squished down to 28% for rent and 30% with utilities. Mortgage lenders generally won't lend to you if the monthly costs would be more than 28% of your income.
Landlords rounded it up to 33% for rent because they don't care what other bills you don't pay, as long as you keep paying them.
This rule was created almost 90 years ago but it'd held pretty true. If anything, people should be spending significantly *less* on housing than 30% because there are so many more bills today than there were 90 years ago, especially the cost of healthcare and childcare.
My grandparents are moving into a senior community, and the moving company that's highly recommended will sort everything into keep/for family members/donate/trash/sell. They'll auction off anything valuable for you, curate a selection of sentimental (but no longer room for) mementos to give to kids/grandkids, do the moving(obviously) with extreme care, and take the donated items to relevant charities that need them. Of course the pricetag is quite frankly alarming, though.
Just moved out of oklahoma city and can confirm tornados and depression have significantly decreased
It's the same with moving from Kansas too
Why the depression there? 😭
Im currently on month 3 of living in my car and I'm saving a crazy amount of money not having to deal with this bs.
Im thinking of just getting a nice van,
Probably going to need a apocalypse mobile soon anyways.
Glad I came across this video though it reminded me why I started doing this.
Hit close to home... and my home is a 2015 ford focus 😁
The fees after move out in apartments is brutal. When I left an apartment I was renting I got hit with what was a cumulative $20,000 fine It was supposed to be 5000 per person with four people living in the apartment but because I was the primary signer the other three did not get hit with that amount and they gave me the full 20K fine. I saw that on my credit report every time I checked it for over 7 years.
Fuck. Landlords.
Wtf did you guys do? Burn the place down?
How did you get a $20k fine?!? Was that for breaking your lease? Some places will try to force you to pay for the rest of the year if you want to move early.
Ummm…never heard of that…what did y’all do?
I want to know what this fine was for as well, I've never heard of fines that big.
prove it lol. sounds made up or you were clearly a bad tenant or left early.
Only thing worse than this is all the scams associated with home ownership
The only thing worse than a landlord is a person pretending to be a landlord 😂
Renting a uhaul, learning last minute there are bridges around manhattan that don’t allow trucks, and moving couches down 5 flights down stairs unlocked a new strength in me I didn’t know I had
When I left my last apartment I paid to have the oven professionally cleaned and the leasing company STILL tried to charge me for it. They just automatically add it without even looking. Thankfully I was able to dispute that charge.
As someone currently moving out of my apartment I feel the pain in this video. Thank you Tugg
Fun fact, DYK it was illegal in Quebec to evict people during the winter, so thats why many leases end on the same month.
was? better still be the goddamn case wth
I didnt get my deposit back because I put a NEW floor down... After they said I could... Taking him to court just on principle 😂
Our landlady (A RETIRED DOCTOR) has been refusing to replace all the broken windows, we’ve been here four years and there was already two broken panes. These windows are the original ones from the sixties, and yeah I’m slightly concerned about lead paint, and so fragile my CAT SHATTERED ONE!! (My cat had also just come back after being missing and was underweight and weak. He’s NOT A BIG CAT EITHER WAY! HOW?!) She’s trying to get one of those state housing security places to pay for them. Most of the broken windows are in my room (it’s a converted sunroom) and this winter was tough with how many storms we got
Not sure where you live, but if it's a safety issue you might be able to get the city involved and they'll make her fix them. I think it's called a slum lord law here. We have some shady landlords around here and I had to do that with an apartment that had no carpet where there should have been and holes that went all the way to the outside. They fined her and made her fix it after we moved out.
@@chzybean Oh yeah I’ve been meaning to look our state’s up for ages. I just hope we won’t have to leave if we report her, our biggest obstacle is finding a place that would allow all our pets and that’s incredibly hard even without taking into account that I don’t have a job yet (there are quite literally no options, I live on a true Island) and my Ma, the only other person in the household, is on disability/retirement whatever it’s technically called
Life’s tough lol 😅
@@LittleBabyBoy I believe you will make it :)
I would put all of my requests in writing, give her a month then stop paying rent if they're not fixed. In most states she can't legally kick you out.
When I moved the last time, I rented a small storage unit for a couple of bucks and slowly moved my stuff there over the course of some weeks. When I moved to the new apartment, I did the same over a couple of days. Of course, I was a student and didn't have any expensive furniture but just some cheap Ikea stuff, which I sold for pennies to get rid of it.
However, this idea might work for you when you have little stuff or can afford to get rid of the more bulky things. It might be really annoying as it takes more time overall, but for me, it was great as I could do it at my own leisure pace.
This is the smart move I recommend to everyone.
haha, one time I used an apartment finder company that didn't even vet the leasing party. Turned put that the guy was the son of the owner, and that she was letting him stay there rent free to get back up on his feet, but he turned around and rented it for $800/month including utilities (studio apartment in 2008 Chicago) and was pocketing every cent. It all seemed cool and above board until I started waking up to find the one and only door to the unit unlocked in the morning after going to bed, and culminated in his mom strolling in on me chilling at home, she was all "who tf are you?" and I'm all "the renter, who tf are you and how tf do you have a key???" and she was all "I own this place, where's my son?" and maaaaaan, she wanted to murder him when we figured it out. Thankfully she was cool about it and even offered me a rent-to-own arrangement, but literally a month later my job went belly up during the recession. TBH I wasn't at all surprised because the entire time I was living there I kept getting court papers served to me citing the dude's various luxury car repossession proceedings. What a scumbag.
Here’s where shits gotten real… Covid has turned my tiny town from ok affordability to BF nowhere Chicago!
Rent on a three bedroom trailer went from $450 a month with lawn care included….. to $1000 a month nothing included!!! All because rich people want to leave the city!!! We have our first HOA!!!!
I am going through that right now moving from DC to Seattle. I got quotes of $5k to move a bunch of flat pack ikea furniture. I added it up and it is less than half the cost to just rebuy my furniture than pay someone to move my stuff.
I just moved from Florida to Seattle, sell that shit or rent a truck yourself. I got quotes of 2-3k and then once they had my stuff they jacked it up to 5k lol.
I should have just sold the big stuff and rented a van.
and you can make some of the money back selling the furniture on facebook marketplace
I'm glad somebody has the balls to say this stuff! 😂❤ Everyone else wants to act like moving apartments is wonderful. Lol, let me tell you, the first time I moved out of my first apartment and into my second, it was the most stressful thing I've ever experienced, and that's not an exaggeration.
The second apartment complex kept telling me they were literally working on fixing the apartment because it was in such disrepair from the last tenant. On moving day, I literally didn't know if I would be able to move in or not, with the moving trucks heading over there and the complex not having given me the keys yet. 😮 Again, I wish I was making this up, but I'm not. It was dreadful. Just imagine having all your furniture moved, paying these companies to move all your stuff, and on moving day, you still don't know if you've been approved and if you're officially moving in. 😂 It was a nightmare, and I wouldn't wish that anxiety on anybody.
It was terrible, and I have warned everybody about moving into the complex I'm at now because their communication sucks. You're probably wondering why I even moved there. It's because I don't make enough money to afford living at a better complex right now. But it was one step up from the crime-ridden complex I was at before, so at least I'm somewhere safer. But yeah, I wouldn't wish apartment moving on anybody. It is the most stressful, overbearing calamity ever for a human being to endure!
P.S. Does anyone else wonder what they do with all that money they get from people? Like, seriously, where does it go? 😂 You pay them such exorbitant amounts per month, and you don't see it go anywhere! Am I the only one who thinks that's nuts? It's insane! You pay them that much, and they don't do anything with it, apparently! Someone needs to hire a private investigator and track down where all this monthly rent goes, seriously. LOL 🤣
We should all start homesteading. Commune time boys
How? None of you have any applicable skills.
@@danielmorris7648 this.
If enough people decide to learn how to homestead we will never need to doomsday prep but they’re both marketing terms that effectively produce the same result except for paranoia. Applied physics, earth wind water and fire… most of my cohorts are blind to how elements work on a basic level.
homesteading is problematic in a number of ways and infeasible for most people, I just want a damn affordable house 😔
@@Taradoxxi I want those assholes to let us build houses on that land they let go fallow.
Tip I learned on TH-cam: the day you move into the apartmemt buy a newspaper with that days date on it and before any of the boxes go on take pictures of any damages or scratches u see in the apartment with the newspaper in the picture. That way u have proof if ur landlord tries to blame you for the damages
Housing market may be going down in shambles, but the memes will be great I can tell
I live in Seattle 💀
thank god for small miracles amirite
I live in LA, and my shower head in my apartment fell off as I was in it. I started my day worh this truth and now must share it with the world!!
good share lol
I fell for one of those scams and even got a fake key. It sucks so much ass. They even had pictures of the inside of an apartment. I lost like $600 that i'll never get back.
I tried to rent an apartment off Craigslist. Nice little shotgun shack type house in the city for a good price. Guy says "yeah sign the lease, send me the deposit, and I'll mail you the keys because I am out of town." I thought huh? I told him "I'll just pick up the keys when he's back because my move date is like a month away." He's said "are you accusing me of being a scammer?!?! I assure you I am not and take offense for you implying that." Talk about showing your hand lmao
Someone genuinely tried to tell me that being a landlord isn’t shitty because her grandpa is one.
I'm moving out of my parents and into my first apartment literally next week, and now I don't think I want to anymore. This video stressed me out so much more than I already am, wish me luck.
Good luck🙏🏻
As someone who has had to move 3 times in the past 4 years because our lease ended when the owners wanted to sell the house, this last time we finally just decided to pay a few people in cash (per hour) for their time. Make it an hourly wage that is an incentive for them spending their time doing it, but is still way cheaper than a moving company. Definitely better than offering food, which they could easily just buy for themselves and have a WAAAAY better day! lol. Luckily some high schoolers we knew were down to make some money.
Fun fact: Since moving into this shit hole rental house that I pay a fortune for each month, I've mudded, sanded, and painted more than a hundred holes left by previous tenants that the landlord did shit-all about before I moved in. I'm going to really enjoy it when I eventually move out and am charged for "repairs" on walls that I left in vastly better condition than I was provided with when I moved in.
I've moved several times in the past few years and it's so tiring. I'll take a fridge for a room if it means I finally get some stability in my life.
Taking note from this video, I'm so grateful you made this because I have 0 clue about getting an apartment, thanks :)
You cant talk about moving trucks and not bring up the can opener bridge, its got a whole youtube channel its great. Its just a bridge that happens to hate moving trucks, just strips the tops off of one of them every few months.
I love that channel! 😂
We have one of those where I love!
Oh, we have one of those! It's like a 10 foot and some change clearance instead of 11 foot and all the hopefuls who have never driven anything bigger than a sedan just tuna can the absolute crap out of an Enterprise or Penske truck. Highly entertaining if you manage to catch it in action.
Lol any fellow Louisvillians in the chat here? That one on 3rd and Winkler has claimed so many truck roofs. I think it has its own subreddit.
the fact that they kind of just let anyone with a driver's license drive a U-haul truck (even just the basic trucks, not just talking about the trailers) is greatly concerning to me.
Damn, that "new landlord" example is exactly my current landlord. Although, he's the reason I don't move. My apartments is too expensive for being basically a kennel with no air flow, it sucks, it's the worst. BUT, also, I see my landlord only once per year when we need to renew the contract. And that's worth a lot.
When we moved out, the property manager did a walk through with us, and said nothing about problems. Two weeks later the land dork refused to give us the security deposit back because of a supposed cat urine smell. We responded by saying that, legally, they needed to have given us notice of that already. Then we were given half our money back. We could've taken him to court, but it just wasn't worth it.
You just saved me from making mistakes in adulthood
Uhaul is shady as fuck. I reserved one of their small ass vans to move my daughter 300 hundred miles back to college 5 months in advance. Went up to pick up said FULLY PAID FOR VAN and they were like, "Sorry out of vans, but we have a truck ready for TWICE THE PRICE, take it or leave it! LOL!" and we HAD to take the fucking truck. Did they warn me in advance that they had no vans? No, of course not. Was the truck comedically empty and wind up costing me $500 in gas? Yes, of course. Absolute scam artists.
The holding your shit for ransom thing happened to my family when we moved to our current house last year lmao
is there nothing you could do?? :C
My wife and I bought our first house last year and we paid 150% more than the previous owner did when she bought it in 2018. You shouldn't buy a house either. It's all bad.
I currently live in Tampa Florida where people pay on average $1900 a month for the privilege of living in this hellhole of a city :)
Tampa has problems, but there is nowhere much better in Florida lol, I moved to St Pete for a few years, better but also expensive. I left the state this year and will never move back.
Chiming in as a neighbor (Riverview). F this state
My rent went up almost 8%.
They don’t even give us a cost of living 2-4% raise anymore.
At this point rate I will soon have no other options but to move apartments. Into a box.
I’m waiting for the stock market to crash before I ever decide to move again I ain’t doing this anymore
soon, my friend.
My mom and younger siblings had to move out of the house they were renting because the landlords daughter wanted it. They almost ended up on the streets. There were NO houses or apartments around, because of the Air BnB's and other things where people come just for the summer, or for a few weeks.
I currently live with my grandparents, and she and my siblings would have had to try to cram in here with us if she wasn't able to find a place in the end.
I bought an old broken down house about 20 years. We've had to spend a ton to renovate it. Still better than apartment hunting.
We lost almost everything in a move about a decade ago. My great grandmother was on hospice, so we moved from Oregon to Southern Missouri to help my grandma while SHE helped her dying mom. My mam, while extremely competent, does not actually do great in a crisis. So we were trying to cross the country in like, 2 days, like my great grandma was going to die the next day (spoiler - she lived about 6 more months). Basically, my mom found the absolute cheapest moving company she could find - and we were already leaving pretty much ALL of our furniture, so we were just trying to pack our daily necessities and things that were irreplaceable. Except, when they showed up, the truck was charging us not for the weight of our load, but the space available on the truck, which already had someone ELSE's shit in it. My mom HAD signed a contract for the estimated price based on rate, but they showed up with a completely different contract carried exclusively by people who did not speak English. She signed it because again, crisis mode, and we left. But they charged us double what we were quoted and we couldn't pay, so they put our belongings in a storage unit under the truck driver's name?????? held ransom until we paid, which we couldn't. It turned out it was a scam business based in florida. so we lost 80% of our belongings apart from most of our clothes and whatever else we decided to put in our luggage in the car.
Im so sorry, that's terrible
The fact that I literally move out of my house tomorrow is insane timing for this video
We carried an oven, stove and all our clothes and smaller items in my tiny VW Golf, poor thing was barely moving but we weren’t gonna pay anyone for something we can do ourselves.
The true moving experience is doing a ton of trips and screaming and yelling at each other along the way ❤
Tip number one. Take a video of the apartment when you move in before any furnitures in so that any scuff any broken thing any anything is on film. Also when you leave before you hand in the key take a video of everything so if they try to say the oven was dirty they it wasn't cleaned etc etc you have proof that it was. Videos are your lifeline
My bf and I were SHOOK when we got our security deposit back when we moved out of our apartment, especially because we were so stressed when moving out we didn't even bother to clean that much. And then the landlord sent us an email thanking us for leaving the apartment in such great condition lmao
As someone who goes through Omaha twice a year i have to say it is absolutely horrible. I had a dude on meth try to get into my hotel room that smelled like cigarettes and death
I've met someone from Buffalo, NY. They couldn't witness a murder because they were snow blinded.
I LOVE how calmly mad he is 😂 ✋
Thankfully my landlord isn’t terrible. There’s a tenant portal where we pay rent and request repairs. We had our water heater replaced the next day. The only thing that sucks is that our rent went up a hundred dollars last year but we’re able to make it.
I live in Washington and my rent is $1800 :( it’s not even a nice enough town to justify it either, If you want to do anything besides walk around Walmart you have to drive an hour
That's almost as bad as Seattle.
I'm 25 and live with my mom and stepdad in a rural area in the States. I don't think I'll ever be able to afford my own home, especially since I have debt to pay off for college and I'm a teacher.
My aunt has 3 kids and had to move in with her mom after divorcing her abusive husband. Despite having a Master's degree, she can't afford a home, even after remarrying.
My mom was retired and has to work a full-time job now. While it is common for retired folks to work part-time or volunteer, it's insane that she worked her ass off for years and retired only to have to return to the workforce completely bc of the economy.
The low-end cost of an apartment with no utilities provided is $2k where I live. That's INSANE! It used to be $1k a month with utilities and appliances included in the same apartment complex.
Yes moving absolutely sucks but sometimes staying is a lot worse than moving. Because apartments also have this fun little thing where if you renew your lease they up your monthly payments some times by 200 or more dollars. Love your videos Biggy T
5:47 the #1 perk of living in Albuquerque is having a whole song abt your city written by Weird Al that is recognized as easily being one of his best
Fun fact I live in an apartment complex owned by a management company and while they are good about fixing things, they require a 60 day notice for moving out and only do a year lease at a time. My roommate and I tried to move to another apartment owned by the same company (so there would be no loss of money), and they would not allow us to move out of our current apartment ten days late. So we are stuck. Also they refuse to exterminate the mice.
Ohh No. I’m in foreclosure with 4 kids, 3 cats & a doggo…. As a newly single mom. Well for two years I’ve been running rapid to stay afloat but now I’m struggling to find a place! Ayee….. Can’t even listen! Stay blessed everyone! Have hope❤️
I have moved 16 times in my 27 years on this earth. I am so tired of moving.
Good news! If you REALLY love your landlord, who TOTALLY does everything they should, you can reward them by pouring your leftover animal fats down the drains before you move.
PSA! Ask a realtor friend for contact info of a moving company they trust and include that realtors name when you book. They even if they are scummy they will usually not fuck you because they risk missing a lot of referrals
My pitch for underrated Minnesota:
Why do people love NYC so much? It's like a financial Hunger Games.
Sticking with the Twin Cities for me. Bunch of Fortune 500s, decent legislation, top-notch education and healthcare, and NYC's COL is 145% higher, with 456% higher housing costs, but pay there is only 9.2% more than in Minneapolis. We consistently top the lists for happiest place in the country.
Want a lakeplace, cheap as possible? If you're okay with something rustic or outdated, you can get a cabin or house on a lake for $50k. Deadass.
You can own an ISLAND in Minnesota for under $100k. They hardly ever come up for sale, but I've come across two for sale for under $95k in the past 5 years, without even looking.
Recently renovated 3bd 2ba, with a yard, within a 10 minute block walk of a park, and a 10-15 minute drive to downtown? $350k.
Luxury one bedroom apartment in downtown will run you $1,300-$1750 per month.
Y'all are nuts. A flight from here to New England is like $65. Can just fly in whenever we want to access the NYC amenities, because we actually have income to spend.
You are doing it smart. Need to visit Minnesota again. Currently in Omaha.