My very Jewish family, on my father’s mother’s side has been here since before the Mayflower. We fought in the Revolution. But when my grandmother’s mother applied for the DAR around 1920, she was rejected, because it was a “Christian” organization.
To be fair, my grandmother reapplied in the 1960s, and was accepted, but seriously, is it the DAR, or not?
Wish we had an upvote button.
Do you actually think a person using the word “verily” in a sentence is being serious?
Exactly. I have neither cable nor the internet - until recently it has not been in my budget. Now is not exactly the time to get it. No landline. My smartphone is a $25 for 3 months plan. My car is a 2009 Accent and is paid off. The only luxury I could slash is my kindle unlimited which is $10 a month. It’s called being poor or close to it. Luckily I have some savings and currently still have a job.
Forsooth, ye speaketh with yon wisdom beyond thine age.
It may or may not be worse - it all depends on the response. If the republicans insist on setting aside hundreds of billions of dollars for major corporations and not doing shit for small enterprise, the self-employed, and the employees themselves…yep, we’re fucked.
It’s not looking good right now but there’s still a chance some good can come of it. If we can keep this from turning into a commercial real estate crisis, if we can keep the lines of credit open -not for right now but for the immediate recovery once it’s past us - then there’s a chance we could go right back to where we were before the nosedive.
But if this drags on for weeks without political compromise, or worst of all, if Trump foolishly tries to rush back the economic recovery before the pandemic has run its course, then this will turn into a disaster for the ages.
Was she part of the original Jamestown Colony?
I’m guessing - okay hoping - that congress will intervene with some regulation to this effect. And if congress won’t, perhaps state governors in California and New York will, which would probably have the same effect.
Absolutely agreed. So I was proposing a rent&mortgage moratorium, with financial institutions holding the bag. They still owe us for 2008. If they need money, they can borrow it at 0%.
I live in a large high rise and the communication I’ve gotten from the management company over the last month seems to have been written by a lawyer with a stick jammed up his ass and hasn’t been laid since Reagan was in office.
So much of it is written like ‘it sucks to be you that you don’t get the building amenities you moved here for but no rent adjustments will be considered.’
‘Rent is still due on the 1st of the month. I’ve attached the late fee schedule in your lease’
I’ve got the savings to pay rent. But this isn’t the way to win friends and influence people.
But if we did that, how would the big banks make $$$? This crisis is an opportunity for the banks to make even more money! /s
I read a freshman college essay that did just that.
I own a four-plex and live in one of the units. My tenants are also my neighbors. My wife and I decided to not evict or anything shortly before Governor Inslee put the moratorium on evictions in Washington state.
None of them have told us they’ve been laid off or otherwise losing income. I hope they are all fine through this. One is a single mother of two young girls and is a nursing aid of some sort; I worry for her, not her income.
We have enough of a cushion to have SOME flexibility. Partial payments, deferred payments, no late fees, that I can handle. Straight up no rent coming in I can’t handle.
If my mortgage payments can be suspended without penalty for the duration of this, then I have much more ability to help my tenants if necessary.