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  • #31
    Yep, don't cause waves while your stuff is still in their house. I've heard horror sotries about pissed off landlords/roommates. Next do what I did and only live with people the same general age as you because it saves a lot of hassles. Once I rented a room from this 40 year old black divorcee with a five year old wo loved to scream at 5am and was still poopng his pants. She'd go snooping in my room and complain if I drank beer in my own room ("because I have a small child") which is fair enough but she should have mentioned that in the lease. Finally she became a born again Christian and went totally psycho on me complaining about the "pagan" things I had in my room. I had a few D&D books and a Buddha statue I had bought in Thailand. :rolleys:

    The final straw was she told me to get rid of my wine collection. My girlfriend at the time and I loved to spend vacations traveling the California coast and going wine tasting at the hundreds of small wineries whose products you couldn't find at the store. Thus I had a decent sized collection of wines I was aging and when she became born again she decided alcohol was the devil's juice and told me either the wine collection (stored neatly in a wine rack I had bought) was gone by the weekend (it was thursday) or I had to be out by Sunday. My lease said she had to give 30 days notice and I pointed that out but she started screaming and saying she'd throw all my things out and change the locks so I just packed my stuff and left.

    I know I could have sued her and won but I just couldn't be bothered. I just filled a report with the campus housing authority and she was no longer allowed to advertise to students through the campus housing authority's web site. Take my advice and room with people your own age.
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    • #32
      Originally posted by Oerdin
      My guess is he's just a snoopy old man. Asher just wise up and get your own place.
      "My own place"?

      I move 2,000km west in 5 months, that makes getting my own place a bit impractical.
      "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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      • #33
        Month to month leases are your friend.
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        • #34
          Asher, Move out now before you end up one of the people under the stairs!

          BTW what software/hardware etc did you use for all this. I'm very interested.
          We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
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          • #35
            Originally posted by SpencerH
            Asher, Move out now before you end up one of the people under the stairs!

            BTW what software/hardware etc did you use for all this. I'm very interested.
            PC and Creative Webcam NX Pro. The Webcam came with all this software for free.

            This is the software:
            Creative WebCam Monitor

            Using sophisticated motion detection algorithm, WebCam Monitor detects and captures a picture whenever anybody or anything gets near your PC.

            Just point your camera, pick a capture mode (either regular intervals or motion detection) and WebCam Monitor does the rest.

            The software is able to automatically sound an alarm, send you e-mail, or even upload a snapshot to your Web site. WebCam Monitor includes a collection of web templates and graphics so you can show your images to the world even without knowing HTML!
            "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
            Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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            • #36
              Moving is a huge pain in the ass and I don't think I have it in me to move again, and I'm pretty sure they'd keep the deposit I'd given them as well as this month's rent, so I'd be out $1000 on top of having to pay another deposit and first-month's-rent on a new place. :|
              "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
              Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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              • #37
                Can you put a lock on the door...
                Keep on Civin'
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                • #38
                  Originally posted by Ming
                  Can you put a lock on the door...
                  FAR too low tech

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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
                    In almost any state, they need to give you 24 hours notice.


                    He doesn't live in the states, though. Canada lacks many of the freedoms we take for granted, so I wouldn't be so sure things work the same there in this situation.


                    Actually, for renter's rights we're a lot better than the US.
                    12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
                    Stadtluft Macht Frei
                    Killing it is the new killing it
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                    • #40
                      Quebec especially is very strong when it comes to renter's rights.
                      12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
                      Stadtluft Macht Frei
                      Killing it is the new killing it
                      Ultima Ratio Regum

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                      • #41
                        Originally posted by reds4ever
                        FAR too low tech
                        It's more complex than that.

                        My "bedroom" has 2 doors -- one of which has a lock on it, and I do lock. The other door leads into the rest of the "apartment" (the first leads into the house), which I can't lock because Ben (the guy who lives in the other room in the apartment) uses a closet behind that door. I have a plastic curtain thing to close between that closet and my room, but it doesn't lock.

                        The entrance to the apartment needs to be open because another guy in the basement (named Toby) needs to use the bathroom in the apartment as well.
                        "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                        Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                        • #42
                          Originally posted by Asher

                          PC and Creative Webcam NX Pro. The Webcam came with all this software for free.
                          Thanks. IMO the software looks to be worth more than the webcam. Amazing!
                          We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
                          If any man be thirsty, let him come unto me and drink. Vampire 7:37
                          Just one old soldiers opinion. E Tenebris Lux. Pax quaeritur bello.

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                          • #43
                            Originally posted by Asher

                            It's more complex than that.

                            My "bedroom" has 2 doors -- one of which has a lock on it, and I do lock. The other door leads into the rest of the "apartment" (the first leads into the house), which I can't lock because Ben (the guy who lives in the other room in the apartment) uses a closet behind that door. I have a plastic curtain thing to close between that closet and my room, but it doesn't lock.

                            The entrance to the apartment needs to be open because another guy in the basement (named Toby) needs to use the bathroom in the apartment as well.
                            wow-- it sounds like the norm is for a heck of a lot of guys to be traipsing through your bedroom . . . . Something you might even have favored before you found your committed relationship .

                            On locks-- I think that a tenant can't put a lock on an apartment without giving the landlord a key. The idea is that the landlord as owner must always have the ability to have access but may only legally do so with notice or in an emergency etc.
                            You don't get to 300 losses without being a pretty exceptional goaltender.-- Ben Kenobi speaking of Roberto Luongo

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                            • #44
                              Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
                              In almost any state, they need to give you 24 hours notice.


                              He doesn't live in the states, though. Canada lacks many of the freedoms we take for granted, so I wouldn't be so sure things work the same there in this situation.
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                              • #45
                                Originally posted by Flubber
                                wow-- it sounds like the norm is for a heck of a lot of guys to be traipsing through your bedroom . . . . Something you might even have favored before you found your committed relationship .
                                Only the one guy comes in my bedroom (Ben), and it's more of coming in the hallway before my bedroom. There are two closets in the hallway, then my bedroom...but the door is before the closets. I have a plastic curtain slider thing to close between the closets and my room.

                                That said, Ben is really hot and walks around in his CK boxerbriefs after 9pm-ish He lived in the room next to me at the old place. Mechanical Engineering student from Waterloo.

                                He has a girlfriend, though.
                                "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                                Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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