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lazycouchpotato, to unethicallifeprotips in Rent requirements in the US are nuts
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It might work for a small time landlord, but larger real estate agencies have other ways to check your income.

This is from my work:___ https://i.imgur.com/Rngchh2.png

Nathandee,

So if you can check… why ask in the first place

Lowered_lifted,
@Lowered_lifted@lemmy.world avatar

I seriously have no idea how people are getting away with lying on the app. More power to em I guess

JAC,

Bruh, I had one property, and I still did more thorough work than this. The credit unions offer it as a service. It’s like 0 work to do. These people, lol.

PersnickityPenguin,

My company uses that too. You need to earn five times the salary that we offer for a new hire in order to apply for a job here.

MargotRobbie, to unethicallifeprotips in Rent requirements in the US are nuts
@MargotRobbie@lemmy.world avatar

It’s easier and way cheaper to rent a room in a house somewhere if you’re looking to save money since the rental market looks miserable right now.

Plus, having roommates can be great.

I_Fart_Glitter,

When I was 22 I lived in a curtained off corner of an attic in a house with 13 other people. It was so, so fun. I thought to myself, I could live this way forever! Why do older people get scammed into believing that they need to spend all their money on living alone?! I’m old now. I’ll live with a partner or live alone. I’m done with room mates.

MargotRobbie,
@MargotRobbie@lemmy.world avatar

13 people is a bit too much. I was thinking like 3. Above that, it gets too messy.

I_Fart_Glitter,

Yeah, some years back I got nostalgic about it and was watching New Girl and decided to get a room mate. Nope. Nopity nope nope nope.

Ew0, (edited )
@Ew0@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Surely esteemed actress Margot Robbie doesn’t flatshare?!

MargotRobbie,
@MargotRobbie@lemmy.world avatar

… Back in the day.

Retrograde,
@Retrograde@lemmy.world avatar

It can be great or terrible. Roommate roulette!

MargotRobbie,
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I find it easier if you have multiple roommates. Makes the conflicts less concentrated.

ox0r, to unethicallifeprotips in Rent requirements in the US are nuts
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PFF just use gimp

AngryCommieKender,

Look, I love The G.I.M.P. It allows me to recreate both 3D Studio Max, and Fractal Design: Painter into a single program. I have begged every single graphic artist and photographer in my life to switch. They all say it’s far too hard to set up and use. I wish I could help them fix this, but apparently modding anything other than a game is too complex for them. How the fuck do I manage to explain this to them‽

KoyoDraka,

It’s because they already have a good workflow for productivity. There is no point of switching to another program just for the sake of change. My workflow is just happened to be on Windows and Adobe and that’s it! I don’t care shit about these brands.

I’m tired of everyone on Lemmy keeps bashing Windows and trying to force people in to Linux. Stop trying to make people doing something unrelated to their real life. In normal people eyes, computer is no different than a toaster. Who care about all the feature and technology? If it can make good toast then that’s good enough for them.

In my eyes, Linux community is no different than a cult and church, who is trying to force everyone into joining them. And I’m getting tired of Lemmy also. It’s like 50 percent of the posts are all about Linux and bashing Windows. I was supporting the movement, but now I think it’s meaningless with this type of community. Impossible for normal user to join in. Sorry about my rant. Have a nice day, eveyone.

AngryCommieKender,

I use windows. I just use The GIMP because NO One else makes a graphics program that acts like FDP. Fractal Design Painter acts like traditional medium, so it’s easier for traditional artists to wrap our heads around. I only suggest it to traditional artists that hate the interface of Adobe products

ox0r,
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Idk man, fighting the good fight is hard.

5too, to mildlyinteresting in How geologists collect lava

Oh! I went looking for more videos like this (my kids love this sort of thing), and I’m pretty sure the source was the first hit: www.usgs.gov/…/lava-sampling-active-lava-flow

Zatore, to memes in Being “gifted”, only makes you wish you weren’t sometimes

I don’t mind being aware of everything, but I do mind that nobody else is

ButtholeSpiders,

As you get older, you sort of get used to the fact that the majority of your fellow passengers are oblivious to the fact we’re on a bus speeding towards a cliff, driven by depravity and delusions of grandeur. And you realize short of a miracle, nothing is going to change it. It’s either that or you go mad. ¯*(ツ)*/¯

SocialMediaRefugee, to mildlyinteresting in How geologists collect lava

Ummm, forbidden pie filling

aceshigh, to unethicallifeprotips in Rent requirements in the US are nuts
@aceshigh@lemmy.world avatar

i assume she also had to photoshop her w2, which is required to provide. forging government docs can’t be good… as is getting blacklisted from renting apartments. i am curious about how below she is from meeting the requirements (you need to make 40x the rent).

anarchy79,
@anarchy79@lemmy.world avatar

You might not be prepared to take the risk, she was, and it worked. Whining about people not following the system in a rigged system is absurd.

snausagesinablanket,
@snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world avatar

I made a fake pay stub to prove I was still working with no gaps in order to get a good job. I have zero remorse.

aceshigh,
@aceshigh@lemmy.world avatar

Whining about people

interesting word choice. you seem defensive. but that’s a you problem.

anarchy79,
@anarchy79@lemmy.world avatar

I’m actually pretty aggressive.

aceshigh,
@aceshigh@lemmy.world avatar

They’re one and the same in the drama triangle, victim and persecutor.

arefx,

Love this response lmao

arefx,

You know the landlords are cheating the system.

ilmagico,

I never had to provide my W2 to a landlord. Then again, I’m in Cali … is it that different in NYC?

Nintendo,

I’m from CA and moved to the East Coast and can tell you the rental process here is insanely bad regardless of what people from here will tell you. CA has inherently less tenant protections in leases than a lot of places here, that’s a fact. your security deposit is probably less safe there. as a normal renter that has a mostly stable life and keeps a nice living area though, it’s completely useless. in fact, I prefer it.

here, both NY and MA, brokers here are not outlawed and not culturally taboo here. listen to this as a Californian and tell me how this isn’t completely criminal: in NY and MA, you usually need to find a broker. pay them ONE MONTH RENT and all they do is forward you the documents to sign and send emails to the landlord. in California, a lot of these rental practices are just non existent if not illegal. people here will tell you that brokers are great because they can just find a place for you with less work. which is just entitlement. also when you move out, you MUST let brokers show your place. that means they CHANGE YOUR LOCKS and EVERY broker will have a key and free reign to show your apartment whenever theyd like. I’d give all my tenants protections just to not deal with that.

Nintendo,

oh and I got carried away with anger. East Coast is the only place I’ve had landlords require invasive proof of income. I even had a place that required me to provide a schedule of when I’d be working from home since they don’t allow people who spend too much time in the apartment to rent since utilities are covered. full time, in person employment only. in fucking sane.

PersnickityPenguin,

Not only is that corrupt, but that’s fucking criminal.

PersnickityPenguin,

5 years of pay stubs, certification to be able to rent an apartment in the state of New York, annual FBI background check, a clean history showing no travel outside of the United States in the last 10 years, no DUI, certification that you have never owned a television, license to not own a pet, 7 years of tax returns. United States birth certificate not in a red state…

It can be pretty difficult to rent an apartment in New York these days. Not to mention all the fees for above can add up to tens of thousands of dollars per year!

ilmagico,

no travel outside of the United States in the last 10 years

Excuse me? This seems completely out of line, of course people want to travel outside the US, and I guess I’d never ever qualify… I somehow find this hard to believe.

aceshigh,
@aceshigh@lemmy.world avatar

Yup. I’ve always had to provide that.

iamnotacat,

W-2 arguably isn’t a gov document unless and until it’s filed with the IRS.

The employee doesn’t do that, and wouldn’t file a W-2.

Is it ideal? Nope, not by a long shot. Is it an effective way for desparate people to do what they need to do? Yep.

Luvs2Spuj, to mildlyinteresting in How geologists collect lava

How this one volcanologist collected lava this one time.

SocialMediaRefugee,

Dermatologists hate him!

TheGiantKorean, to mildlyinteresting in How geologists collect lava
@TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world avatar

10/10 I would accidentally scrape the lava onto my foot, because I am a clutz.

SocialMediaRefugee,

I remember reading about a geologist who was standing on what he thought was solidified lava until he realized he had slowly moved and the bottoms of his boots were melting.

dingus,

Um were his feet ok???

SocialMediaRefugee,

He figured out what was happening pretty quickly

TheGiantKorean,
@TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world avatar

Holy shit!

rob_t_firefly, to mildlyinteresting in How geologists collect lava
@rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world avatar

Warmth spread through Stanley’s arms. With the bucket in his arms again, he was home.

pH3ra, to unethicallifeprotips in Rent requirements in the US are nuts
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Mandatory “use GIMP: is free and open source” comment

DingoBilly,

Just pirate Adobe and get the best of both worlds.

pH3ra, (edited )
@pH3ra@lemmy.ml avatar

I justify the use of Adobe for professional use cases, like “I have to print a label with a specific set of colors and GIMP has bad CYMK support”.
If you have to put a signature where there isn’t one or stuff like that, GIMP is more than good for the job and in the meanwhile you’re helping a community project to grow.

floofloof,

I’ll always choose the FOSS option first, but if you want something that does most of what the Adobe products do, has decent CMYK support, and doesn’t charge a subscription, the Affinity software suite (Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher) is pretty good value.

anarchy79,
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The only problem with GIMP is that is comes with every sensible keyboard shortcut mapped to some random function you use once in a lifetime.

sebinspace,

The other problem is that if it’s on your resume, I’m not hiring you.

anarchy79,
@anarchy79@lemmy.world avatar

It’s not going to be on my resume. Because I know GIMP.

gamer,

Can you give an example? The defaults seem perfectly sensible to me.

Blackmist, to unethicallifeprotips in Rent requirements in the US are nuts

You can use the same trick in job applications.

If they didn’t check themselves, they didn’t really care in the first place.

cheery_coffee,

This is how I spent 8 years working as Bill Gates.

anarchy79,
@anarchy79@lemmy.world avatar

NOC operator, security technician, and sysadmin here. None of them checked until I was qualified as a matter of experience.

nameisnotimportant, to unethicallifeprotips in Rent requirements in the US are nuts
@nameisnotimportant@lemmy.ml avatar

I’m all in to say that the situation to get an appartement is out of control but isn’t that fraud / counterfeit?

tpihkal,

I think rent prices are out of control but it seems reasonable for a landlord to verify that you can afford the rent.

countflacula,

How do you reconcile those two points though? if rent prices are out of control why is it still reasonable for a landlord to verify affordability? to me it seems they’re contributing to the unaffordability (assuming) and then imposing that the tenant then meets this fabricated requirement.

CosmicCleric,
@CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

if rent prices are out of control why is it still reasonable for a landlord to verify affordability?

Because you have to verify that someone is not overextending themselves, to try to land in your place, and then being unable to pay the rent because they did overextend.

JineteDeAbuelas47,

It depends, in Spain there’s a thing called Seguro de Alquiler, (Rental insurance? Not sure the specific name of this service in the US). If the landlord offers a place for rent and has a rental insurance involved, giving them false documents could get you in trouble because of contracts and stuff. But, if the rental is done through a Real State Agency and the realtor (or directly through the lanlord) just asked for it to see but no mention of it in the contract then I think you could get away with it

solstice, to mildlyinteresting in How geologists collect lava

Forbidden tomato sauce for his hot pocket later I’m sure.

rmuk, to mildlyinteresting in How geologists collect lava

Here we see a specialist performing cutting-edge research, pushing back the limits on collecting lava with ever-daintier little buckets. Experts predict that by 2035 the bucket may be carried on the pinkie and have a flower painted on it.

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