My mortgage is 600k with a term on the loan.

If they outright owe 600k with no payment plan, that's a whole different story.

Forget Trump - these are the assholes who got behind Scott Lively.

Good.

Gee that's too bad. Hey, this snow and ice sure is something, isn't it?

Should we be shocked? same guy who fired half his marketing team because they laughed at the Size Matters billboard

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"Hey I'm planning on leaving the place in immaculate condition when I leave - any chance you could forego the $250 cleaning fee?"

Don't play Matlock on them from the jump.

Very similar conclusions to a 2021 article in Vox:

2021 Vox article by Jerusalem Demsas:

> the researchers were able to identify a few reasons for what happened to the Green Line: Jockeying between two different understaffed agencies with little experience managing large projects and consultants, a laissez-faire approach to allowing stakeholders’ expensive ideas to be added to the project scope “even if impractical,” and public pressure for more as the project dragged on and the demand for transit options increased.

This Slate article by Henry Grabar:

> when the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority got to work on the Green Line Extension, the agency only had a half-dozen full-time employees managing the largest capital project the MBTA had ever undertaken.

Demsas's conclusion in Vox:

> American transit agencies need to be staffed up in-house to reduce reliance on expensive contractors and build up institutional knowledge.

Grabar's conclusion in Slate now:

> the conclusion is not just the old left-wing bromide of investing in the public sector. Consultants are paid in public money, after all. It’s a philosophical shift toward an empowered, full-time civil servant class. Spending money now to save money later.

The similarity is because both articles cite Eric Goldwyn from NYU's Transit Costs Project, and because Goldwyn is right.

Sorry, I have nothing to add to your search.

But I just wanted to ask (if you don't mind) do you feel your parents made the right decision? I ask because we were recently faced with a similar decision for our kids, and it's gut-wrenching. I know all ADHD isnt the same, but was yours pretty mild?

Just curious, feel free to PM me if you don't wish to reply here.

PKL in Southie

You Damn Skippy

The only way to solve this is to pour a proportional amount of chocolate on top and eat this problem away...

Agreed but looking at some of the comments, the fact that this is one persons opinion isn’t clear to everyone.

His “facts” are his interpretation of reality. This bridge is not a subsidy of the DYC pleasure boats. That’s untrue.

The way that he talks about ‘navigable waterway’ being the motive for a costly repair is also untrue. It’s the lack of maintenance that is causing a costly repair.

The yacht club does not create a need for a drawbridge. Several commenters are not understanding that. The water is a navigable waterway per federal AND state definition of what a navigable waterway is. Moving the yacht club does nothing for that definition.

I get that you can tell that he has an agenda, but a lot of people seem to be missing that.

Fwiw Suffolk and umass boston are tied at 234 in the US news and world report rankings for national universities. Obviously those rankings are to be taken with a large grain of salt, but still if it were me or my kid I'd need the expensive private school to be way better than the state school to justify that cost

Personally I already think BU and NEU, at full price, are terrible values relative to their public school peers

Thanks! I would definitely appreciate their info. You can message me.

Name of management co?

You can send a demand letter and possibly get 3x ($750 in your case) if you're willing to take it to small claims court and they're not willing to give it back after the demand letter. There are laws you can find online regarding what fees can be taken as part of the lease and what documents need to be with it.

As others said, it's a small amount and going to court may not be worth it to you or the LL. But sending the demand letter would likely be enough to get them to send it back.

Personally, I would go into it less antagonistically. Call them up and ask them what the cleaning fee is for (shit, maybe it'll actually make moving out easier if you don't need to worry about cleaning everything). Maybe you can let slip that you found out it was illegal and see how they react.

Pissing them off for $250 is probably not worth the headache it will cause you. Probably better to be diplomatic.

Shouldn't it file for bankruptcy?

The peanut butter bus is here.

Seriously. What a sticky situation.

Yes, I think it is. I mean, it’s not BU or NEU, and obviously it’s not Harvard or MIT, but it’s perfectly good and benefits from being in a city with such an educated population. I didn’t say excellent; I said good. I stand by that.

They were expecting a smooth drive, but then...crunch.

Ask for it back.

TIL. Thanks!