Stupid question: why today?

[Dominus]

I need to find a good home for my 2 blood hounds or they will get put down.

I need to find an apartment move in today or my family will be homeless.

I need $100k today or the mafia will break my legs.

I need a car today or the world will end.

As a rental business owner, I get so many calls saying they need to rent a place and move in TODAY. Like, in what world does a person get notified of eviction and the eviction date is the same day?

I rescue dogs, foster, and adopt them to good permanent homes. I get so many calls and messages that they need to relocate their dogs today or they will get put down. Again, what's with the urgency about today?

Is this normal or am I just tripping?

 

[rareboy]

What do most of the things you mention have to do with the urgency of finding an apartment today?

I can't think you are getting calls from someone needing 100k or a car in your role as landlord...but who knows?

BTW...if someone is being evicted and needs an apartment today...I suspect you don't want them as a tenant.

I think that maybe you are overdramatizing your situation a little bit?

 

[Peloso]

^ I think he's talking about the people who, as kids, started their class projects on the morning they were due and just carried on like that for the rest of their lives.

Just don't deal with them. Except the dog killers. Get the dogs. Last-minute-assholes are par for the course for animal rescuers. You'd be foolish to expect otherwise.

 

[Dominus]

What do most of the things you mention have to do with the urgency of finding an apartment today?

I can't think you are getting calls from someone needing 100k or a car in your role as landlord...but who knows?

BTW...if someone is being evicted and needs an apartment today...I suspect you don't want them as a tenant.

I think that maybe you are overdramatizing your situation a little bit?

I was talking about urgency for xyz today. In my life experience, I can't think of a single thing in my life that's life or death TODAY AND TODAY ONLY.

It's like studying the final exam for the first time the night before the exam. Or starting the semester long class project 9pm the night before it's due.

 

[rareboy]

I agree with Peloso. Always save the animals.

Otherwise, others' failure to plan isn't your crisis if they bring it to your door.

Particularly those in frantic need of shelter. I can guarantee that in every case, you will be better off renting them a hotel room room for one night and connecting them with social services than letting them move their 3 plastic bags of belongings into an apartment and then squatting for the next year.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I understand your quandry.

My childhood was horrible for pretty much one reason: Mother refused to grow up, to go to work regularly, to forego alcohol and drug abuse, to accept social norms and social constraints, and plan realistically.

Without repeating all the gory details, suffice to say her denial of reality was not uncommon. It is repeated endlessly across our society and even more so now that there is a significant social movement justifying unnecessary dependency, and too often attributing all of such reckless behavior as being a sign of mental illness rather than willfulness or sloth or decadence.

That is not to say that mentally ill people are not adrift in large numbers, and for reasons beyond their control, but there are far more mentally fit people who behave badly and live in crisis and paucity.

Many people I have known live from one crisis to another. And the crises are knitted together by ignorance and apathy. A person tells himself that he can call in sick when he's not, 'cuz it's a mental health day when it's really a hangover or just contempt for working. A person tells himself he can get by on minimal training and work and never aspires to move up with skills that pay more. And, it works for a time, but then the least little upset occurs, and he is unable to pay bills.

A renter pays late because he knows he can get by with it, and then another crisis happens and he cannot pay at all.

A man gets a pit bull because it is a dick proxy or because he stays in a crime pit and uses it to mark his territory. Then, conflict arises and the couple separates, or he has to move for other reasons, and he has no place to put his huge dogs. It was entirely predictable, but he indulged his whims because he was a man-child.

There are millions of variations, but they are not any different.

 

[belamyi]

Simply wait until tomorrow.

 

[Peloso]

I was talking about urgency for xyz today. In my life experience, I can't think of a single thing in my life that's life or death TODAY AND TODAY ONLY.

It's like studying the final exam for the first time the night before the exam. Or starting the semester long class project 9pm the night before it's due.

Any reasonably responsible person wouldn't bother giving these clowns the time of day.

Just tell them no, hang up on them, and move on.

 

[Dominus]

Any reasonably responsible person wouldn't bother giving these clowns the time of day.

Just tell them no, hang up on them, and move on.

LOL that's what I kind of been doing when I get a call for an apartment TODAY. I always tell them no because I need time to do a background and credit check. Then I gotta call their employer to confirm employment and call their past landlords to confirm they didn't set the house on fire or something.

I make it clear to people my application process takes between a week and a month. I'm not just gonna hand over the key.

 

[Peloso]

Anyone who expects to rent and move into an apartment "TODAY!" is not looking for a home.

 

[fredroy]

A person tells himself that he can call in sick when he's not, 'cuz it's a mental health day when it's really a hangover

Oh, I've days like that. The hangover thing. I go to work anyway. Part of being Grown Up in my book. And ya know, going to work and still sorta drunk from the night before is interesting in that you are there, messed up, and no one seems to notice.

I've known plenty of folks that seem to never be able to get their shit together after "something". Key word: known. A few started to suck me into their tarpit of problems and seemed offended when I said No.. Yeah, I'm just getting by myself, I do not have the money to "loan" so you can pay your rent or electric bill. Whatever, so now I'm the Bad Guy. Bye!
I hope they got their shit together because they were cool to hang with before it all started to collapse on them.

 

[belamyi]

Anyone who expects to rent and move into an apartment "TODAY!" is not looking for a home.

Unless it's a very fervent Christian person.

 

[belamyi]

A person tells himself that he can call in sick when he's not, 'cuz it's a mental health day when it's really a hangover

Oh, I've days like that. The hangover thing. I go to work anyway. Part of being Grown Up in my book. And ya know, going to work and still sorta drunk from the night before is interesting in that you are there, messed up, and no one seems to notice.

I've known plenty of folks that seem to never be able to get their shit together after "something". Key word: known. A few started to suck me into their tarpit of problems and seemed offended when I said No.. Yeah, I'm just getting by myself, I do not have the money to "loan" so you can pay your rent or electric bill. Whatever, so now I'm the Bad Guy. Bye!
I hope they got their shit together because they were cool to hang with before it all started to collapse on them.

So you suck all their coolness off for fun's sake, and then leave them out in the cold

 

[LeicsDom]

I was talking about urgency for xyz today. In my life experience, I can't think of a single thing in my life that's life or death TODAY AND TODAY ONLY.

I have a friend who is just like that
He doesn't look any further than today
Everything is an emergency that has to be sorted immediately
He has no financial sense and is always broke, despite having a fair income

 

[fredroy]

So you suck all their coolness off for fun's sake, and then leave them out in the cold.

What???? You high?

I'm the bad guy for not diving into their outhouse of a life? Spare me. I have to take care of me first. Job Number One. Paying my bills comes first.

Yeah, I've been called a bitch. And a cold hearted bitch. Along with being called a "no good faggot commie".

You need a set of dishes or bed sheets or bath towels and maybe some pot and pans? Maybe a tank of gas? I'm there. Giving you cash, nope. I see you smoking weed and swilling vodka and calling in sick almost every week.

 

[belamyi]

^ You deal with pot?!!?

 

[Peloso]

You need a set of dishes or bed sheets or bath towels and maybe some pot and pans? Maybe a tank of gas? I'm there.

Help! My mouth fell asleep. Stick your dick in it for me, will you?

 

[Dominus]

Anyone who expects to rent and move into an apartment "TODAY!" is not looking for a home.

Absolutely. I've had a few people who treat my business like a motel. I've since changed the lease and during orientation make it clear that this ain't a hotel.