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That looks like 50 lbs of weed.
Could you imagine just leaving 40 lbs of weed in a closet like that?
I hope they contacted the authorities about that 30 lbs of weed.
The last thing anyone needs when renting is to be responsible for 20 lbs of weed.
10 pounds of weed? What 5 pounds of weed? There’s no 3 pounds of weed here!
With homelessness exploding due to how the asset-owning Parasite Class is jacking rents into the stratosphere, why is any residential property vacant at this time?
Vacant residential properties should be taxed out the nose - well above any rent or price appreciation - until they are occupied by legitimate tenants.
Because the last tenant put holes in the walls, their dog’s piss caused the floor to lift, and the shower they plugged then overflowed fucked up the bathroom?
So there are repairs to do in order to make the place livable and then time to find somebody else who won’t just wreck the place again?
Yeah there are lots of shit landlords but one of the continuing factors is the remaining good ones with a basement suite etc bailed after terrible tenants.
A vacancy tax is a good idea but there needs to be caveats for timelines especially if stuff like reasonable maintenance/repairs is taken into consideration.
Ironically my friends who bitched about “shit landlords” also happened to be the drinkin’ smokin’ big-dog-ownin’ types who were the worst type of tenants and ruined shit for everyone else
Sorry, that’s actually already factored into the cost of the rent.
The real reason why so many properties are vacant is that even though landlords know they could fill the vacant apartments by lowering the rent, there are companies that make money by telling landlords how much to set the rent for, even if they keep the apartments vacant. showing that they will make more money with less overhead by doing so, so that the decrease in hassle will justify the decrease in profit.
There are a couple of various lawsuits and actions that are going on about these companies right now, and we have yet to see how it’s going to play out. But, the cat is out of the bag, the genie is out of the bottle, the likelihood of rents returning back to something that people can afford with minimum wage income any time soon is pretty low.
Don’t landlords dislike vacancies because empty units get broken into and vandalized, creating more cost?
No, a lot are vacant because they’re purchased as “investments” and just sit there empty. No work is being done on them.
Paying rates, insurance, taxes, and maintenance on an empty property isn’t an investment, it’s a liability.
This is almost certainly a myth, and I don’t know why so many people believe it.
Because when you sit on that property for 3 - 5 yrs, doing thenbare minimum to keep it functioning, you can then sell it for 20-30% more. You don’t have to anything.
Undesirable location
Undesirable location
In many places, that just doesn’t exist. Places like most of Canada, where people are paying 60-80% of their income just to put a roof over their head. If a place is on the rental market, it will likely have people fighting tooth-and-nail over it even if it’s been condemned and it’s being illegally rented out.
Doesn’t Canada have a shitload of uninhabited wilderness?
Yup. Problem is, not too many people can effectively live hundreds of kilometres away from their jobs. And not many people want a 2-4hr daily commute. And anything that has electricity and water to the lot is already being snapped up by “investors” looking to flip the thing for a massive profit.
We have a really big problem with a lack of effective restraints on the asset-owning Parasite Class
What am I looking at here? I’m guessing that’s weed?
I’ll need a couple bags to test and make sure. Maybe 3-4 to get enough to determine 100%. I’ll get the results back to you in a couple of months.
I feel like even if Willie Nelson and Snoop Dogg worked together on it, they would have a tough time going through 50 pounds of weed in a couple months.
Like even if they’re crazy and they each go through an ounce a day, that’s a little less than a pound every two weeks, Which would mean that this is at least a two-year supply of weed for both Willie Nelson and Snoop Dogg at the same time.
NGL, my boy’s lucky he didn’t get shot, much less disappeared.
People don’t shoot each other over 50lbs of weed like that. Heroin maybe. But at this level, you’re acting more professional
Source: trustmebro
By assuming this is their only site, anyone’d be walking into a world of risk that isn’t worth it. “Squatting” on multiple vacant bldgs is merely the uninformed perspective of the maint. crew that had no idea what agreements’d been in place for however long before they stumbled across them - nor any reason to think different, let’s be honest. The chance that this is not an isolated, unconnected series of sites is non-zero, and the risk to the associated organization is not something I’d wish on pretty much anyone. Be smart. Don’t underestimate the situation — especially in that industry. 🤌🏼
This reminded me of a story that happened when I was still in the Navy.
I was stationed in San Diego and I had a friend who had gotten out and became a sheriff’s deputy, in a nearby city, and he offered to let me do a ride along with him for a the day.
There were a couple of things that happened that changed my opinion of him and cops in general (I am 99% ACAB now though).
Towards the end of the day, someone made a call that someone was smoking meth in a motel room. My friend was called in to assist the cop already there.
We got there and he had me stand back until he waved me in a few minutes later.
I walked up and the OP cop had, what looked like, two skater types sitting on the curb just outside their motel room. Still teenagers.
My friend said he needed me to help toss the room, looking for drugs while the other cop questioned them.
Going into the room, my friend asked the kids to do him a favor and just tell him where the drugs were. They told him it was behind one of the nightstand drawers.
Sure enough it was there (sandwich bag of pot), but my friend said we still needed to search, just in case there really was meth, or something else illegal.
While we searched, I could hear the cop question the kids. They were from a town over and just got paid. They both lived at home and just needed a place to smoke.
In the room was a new skate board deck, some Sonic, and an Xbox with some games. No meth. They were begging for them not to call their parents and I just thought these kids were fucked.
We finished searching and came out, my friend gave the pot to the other cop.
This part is what blew my mind.
My friend looks at the kids and says, “Let me guess. You were both smoking and some guy smelled the pot, knocked on your door and asked to have some and you told him to fuck off?”
At no point did the kids say anything about someone knocking on their door.
The kids looked flabbergasted and stammered, “How did you know?”, to which my friend said that was who probably called in, saying someone was smoking meth.
They then took the handcuffs off and my friend then says, “Next time, don’t answer the door.”
The other cop then GIVES THEM THE POT BACK, and we all walk away.
I was sure those poor kids were fucked and I said as much. My friend then said, "I don’t give a shit about pot. Kids don’t break into Grandma’s house and rob her so they can get money to buy pot.
…were the kids white, out of curiosity?
Of course!
Yeah, ACAB because the “good” ones don’t stand up to the bad ones, but some do do the right thing, at least sometimes. In this case, arresting them would have created a situation where they’re much worse off, and they end up doing more crime. Meanwhile, they didn’t do any harm and just wanted to hang out peacefully by themselves. Our criminal “justice” system creates more criminals than it removes.
