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  • In 2017 my landlord raised my rent from $1k to $1100 a month for the place I rented with my daughter because I finally broke down and got her a dog. I was annoyed because this wasn’t in the lease but I was month to month by this time and figured I could probably get a house around me for the same cost and at least I’d be building equity. I closed in 2018 on a $120k fixer upper on 12 acres. I got a $30k rehab loan and my mortgage/insurance/property tax payment ended up being just over $1100. I spent 7 months in major renovations.

    Fast forward to today, I have a 2.875% mortgage rate with just over $1000 a month all in payment (early COVID refi saved me about $100/month), my house was just appraised for $415k, and I was able to sell 5 acres of the land for a total of about $160k.

    A free shelter dog ended up turning $150k into $575k. 10/10 would recommend.





  • Consumers are losing here no matter what happened. Either MS buys AB and we get a more consolidated industry, or they don’t, and we either continue with the shit show that is AB right now until TenCent buys them an consolidates them in a different, likely worse, more anti consumer way.

    The real fault here is the greedy fuckers on the AB board who refused to change leadership after years of toxic mismanagement and instead steered the company towards sale territory for their own gains. Without their will to fix the company there was never a chance for another outcome.


  • YORK COUNTY, Maine —
    Three people accused of breaking into a home and threatening the resident were allegedly asked to do so by a landlord.

    The York County Sheriff’s Office was called to a home on Acton Ridge Road over the weekend.

    The resident told authorities a large group of motorcycles had arrived at her home and some of those bikers were trying to force their way inside.

    Officials say three men kicked in the door to her apartment and began to threaten the woman inside. Investigators say they later learned the landlord of the building solicited the men following a landlord-tenant dispute.

    Jessie Manchester, Christopher Moreau and Harley Faires were all charged with burglary and criminal threatening.

    The men were arrested but have since been released from jail. Officials have not said what the dispute between the landlord or tenant was, or if the landlord is facing charges.