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[spinelli2021]

i just read this and now i can't stop thinking about how dirty my keys are and how badly i want to clean them. now I feel dirty!

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/apartment-therapy-on/at-on-cleaning-your-housekeys-009271

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[stryke3]

Hmm, never thought about keys in that way.

PS. I have kittens now.

[spinelli2021]

KITTIES! i want pictures. immediately. man, why weren't you in pittsburgh when i was? stupid sister graduating from stupid college.

[stryke3]

Well, you shoulda got here earlier or left later! I have one picture up on facebook on my wall. I have a couple others I took with my laptop's webcam, but most of the good ones are on my cellphone. If you can receive picture messages, I can send you some.

[stryke3]

also, i'm over here now: http://wardo-san.blogspot.com/

[cursedthesky]

Hi, sorry to leave a comment out of context, but I was wondering if I could talk to you about Lobos. My boyfriend wants for us to move into a Bellvue apartment managed by them, and I've had him Google them yet he still wants to live there. We're not college kids and I'm trying to convince him that the negative reviews aren't solely from college kids that couldn't get their deposit back after trashing the place.

[cursedthesky]

hi. you should ABSOLUTELY NOT rent from lobos. i have plenty to tell you about them, which hopefully will convince your boyfriend of what you already seem to know, which is that they are evil slumlords and no one should ever live in their properties. sorry it's long but if i can save someone from renting from them i will tell you plenty

[cursedthesky]

lobos also installed new temperature control WHILE i was living there, which included giving up about 10 square feet to a new "closet" which housed the heating/cooling unit and having 1 ft diameter holes sawed into the tops of each wall, leaving plaster dust all over everything (this is what was done in EACH unit, not just mine). then they put in the ducts and everything, and painted, all without dropcloths, leaving paint splatters and more dust on my furniture, carpet, and keyboard. also, the only real reason they put in these units is so that they wouldn't have to pay to heat the water for the radiators which had previously been heating the building (all the power came from electric, which tenants paid individually). side note, any day that it was cold before they finished installing the heating/cooling units in each apartment, we would have to call lobos to have someone come turn on the heat for the radiators. and in the middle of winter, the radiators would only stay on for about three days at a time before they stopped working

[cursedthesky]

lobos also had several section 8 properties: these are units that the tenants sometimes pay some of the rent on, but mostly the rent is paid through government aid for the tenants. lobos loved these because the government aid always came on time, and the tenants weren't paying directly so they couldn't withhold rent when things went wrong and lobos could ignore their complaints. for example, a block of houses in the same street, all owned by lobos, had the same plumbing malfunction: the upstairs toilets would routinely back up and the sewage would come up through the kitchen sink and flood the kitchen with excrement. lobos would send someone out there within a day or three to clean up the mess and temporarily fix the pipes (good response time for them). but they never fixed the underlying cause, because it would be too much work/money and these people weren't worth it. it was clear that the family running the business considered anyone who needed public assistance to be second-class citizens and that any "help" lobos provided, e.g.