propertymanager,
I feel for you, really I do. It has to be terribly wearying to always deal with low-income, welfare people. You seem to be renting to the bottom 10% of the Ohio population. But somebody has to do it!
After a while you start to think that EVERYONE is a welfare-cheat, babies out of wedlock, drug-addicted scumbag as you say.
A long time ago when I was working in the ICU, I started to feel that EVERYONE could be having chest pain. EVERYONE could be critical. EVERYONE could die at any moment from a brain bleed or a car accident! I even started to feel that way when I was not at work. Very pessimistic and fatalistic.
Then I left the hospital and started selling real estate. Slowly I realized that MOST people are healthy! My whole attitude changed! I no longer saw the daily trauma of sudden acute illness and accidents. No more crying relatives, just happy home buyers. Whew!
What about taking a vacation, Mike? Please tell us when you were LAST away from your business for 2 weeks… Wherever you go, let there be sunshine and no low-income deadbeats.
Furnishedowner
Furnishedowner,
I hardly think that Propertmanager (he can correct me if I’m wrong) thinks his friends and relatives are like the people he deals with…
Furnishedowner,
No, I don’t think everyone is a scumbag, but the lower 15% or 20% of society definitely are… and yes, about 1/2 of my rentals are low income rentals so I do deal with this riff-raff all the time. Furthermore, they’re breeding like rabbits and the percentage of these scumbags is rapidly increasing. That was my point.
To contrast that, I would say that about 50% of the population are hard-working, upstanding citizens who are productive citizens. PositiveOutlook is right, my friends and relatives are all productive, upstanding citizens. I live in a beautiful neighborhood with Doctors and other professionals and we haven’t had a single crime that I know of in the 15 years I’ve lived here. My neighbors and I would never even see the sheriff if it weren’t for him frequently coming to my house to serve me papers (to testify against one scumbag or the other- often not my tenants). Furthermore, about half of my tenants are lower-middle class, honest, blue collar workers and I certainly respect them.
Having said all that, I do need a vacation and actually will be taking 3 vacations in the next three months. We’re headed to the beach for a week; then a local Ohio vacation; then to the land of socialism (California) for a week.
Mike
Mike,
one of these days we need to park that RV of yours up at Algonquin and do an “interior” canoe trip.
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-Mike
Good for you! Have a great vacation.
I am heading for a Mid-West vacation next month! Going to a family reunion --reunion of the kin descended from my grandmother’s 2 brothers who immigrated to Audubon, Iowa in the 1920’s. They founded families of dozens of Andersens.
I have never been to Iowa or Arkansas or Oklahoma. It’s going to be very interesting.
Furnishedowner
Yeah… Our tenant’s daughter who rarely wakes up and gets off the couch by 3pm and got fired from DQ for not being able to make a milkshake - should be giving birth any day now. She’s finally getting ready to move out into her own place. Guess who’s paying for that one? It’s sad that there are so many people like this bringing kids into the world who aren’t going to stand a chance because of the example (hand-outs) that has been set for them.
They were just talking about the excessive breeding of the lower class on Cashin In (on Fox News). I guess Obama already had a provision in the health care bill to counsel the deadbeats about their over-breeding. I’m sure that will work!
Mike
We have to start with the kids. Start with the future generation. I know there are a few rays of light–educators who have bootstrapped whole classes of kids out of the social quagmire into which they were born.
I have heard of a couple of schools in Chicago and Brooklyn/Bronx where great success has been achieved in changing those kids social mindsets. They became strivers. They became successes. They left their ghettos.
Think of what the billions spent in Iraq could have done in a real war on poverty. Not handouts, but a hand. But the kids have got to be encultured while they are young.
Wasn’t it the Jesuits who said, “Give us a child until the age of seven, then we have that child forever.”
It is a huge National tragedy that millions of kids have only their inner-city ghettos to inspire them.
Furnishedowner
“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it” - Proverbs 22:6
“Think of what the billions spent in Iraq could have done in a real war on poverty. Not handouts, but a hand. But the kids have got to be encultured while they are young.”
When they are kids, it is a handout… but I am all for helping the kids, because they don’t know any better… adults, limited, short-term help could be jusitified to a certain extent… but NOT permanent subsidization…
TRILLIONS have been spent in the war on poverty… only to find out we still have the poor with us, in roughly the same percentage of the population as when it started. I am curious as to why do you think that will change with even MORE money?..
“The poor you will always have with you” - Matthew 26:11
I am not saying it is not good to help those in need… in fact, it is good for citizens to help one another… we agree on this, but we disagree on how it is done… you want government to haphazardly and inefficiently do it, and I believe that private charities and individuals are much better at it… But, because the government CONSUMES so much of it’s citzenry’s taxes, it makes it a struggle to raise funds…
Imagine, if we didn’t have a $500+ BILLION DOLLAR INTEREST ONLY payment this year… Two years of interest only payments PAY for 8 years for TWO wars… think about the inanity of that…