@bt…..ahahaha yea dont run her down…..I live a block from the beach so parking issues are always a point of contention around here…you handled things right, hopefully she reconsiders your request….im sure you were really nice about it.

PS – aside from my own rentals, I’m in a pissing contest with college students who live across the street from me. I live in a college town. Most of the homes on my street are single families, including mine. But there’s a four unit student housing across from me. Now, I take a lot of pride in my lawn. It is the showcase of the neighborhood. The place across from me has a huge parking lot in the back of the house, with room for tenants and guests. The city created a black top parking area directly in front of the house with room for four cars. So, what happens? New kid moves in and she’s too busy to park in the parking lot and walk to the front of the building or drive down one driveway and turn around so she can park on the black top in front of her building. Instead, she pulls onto the grass between the sidewalk and the street in front of my house. She’s killing the grass and forming a rut. So, yesterday, I ask her nicely if she’d mind not parking on my lawn, but park in her parking lot or on the blacktop right in front of her building.

Her response: I’m too busy to argue with you, but this is city property and I can park anywhere I want.

Unfortunately, its illegal to run college kids down with my car.

Laura: One, I’ve probably been lucky. Two, my rentals aren’t my livelihood, they’re a complement to my livelihood, so I’ve always been willing to work with people when they have financial problems – and when you’re dealing with blue collar folks, they always have a problem at some point in the year. Three, I’ve never had more than four units at one time – the law of averages says a guy renting out 20 units or 30 units is more likely to run into a jerk than me.

My two favorites were a truck driver who was a month or two behind in rent and abandoned the house – showed up one day and it was empty of his stuff, but he left his dog behind. So, I took the dog home rather than send it to the pound. About 3 months later, it ran into the street and got hit by a car. Shortly after that, the guy showed up and wanted his dog. Got pissed that it had gotten out of my house and run over. He kept saying: You killed my dog.

About ten years ago, a forty-something who was in the middle of divorce from an executive at a financial services company rented an apartment from me. Started out with her keeping the place like Martha Stewart. About 8 months later, she took up with an 18 year old drug dealer (her I had to evict after I came home one day and the cops had the guy spread eagle on the driveway, then she bailed him out and let him back in). The kicker was she drove this big Ford Explorer. Before tossing them out, the guy was driving his own Ford Explorer. I learned she’d leased it for him. Why? Cuz he lost his license and Ford wouldn’t lease it to him.

She sort of got what she had coming.

@charity…..oh good im glad you have a better understanding of where cspan was coming from…..I agree with lacey that it was coming from a good place and we would hate to see you get scared off from posting here…..your thoughts are very valuable to the dIscussions here and we all wish you the best….its good to know you have some coinciding plans too…..I think most here would also feel even better knowing you had more opportunities to shoot with condoms without the stigma of possibility loosing work….. What are some of your biggest industry concerns?

Ah, I stand corrected. I thought u were implying u were a producer, not that u were referring to a non-adult business. No need to worry about me sweety, I’m in porn until I retire. I didn’t start for a quick paycheck nor did I without a proper plan. I sat my family and friends down before i started and told them so there wouldnt b any surprises and calls to quit. I’m not going to get tired of it and finally I do have a plan B. This isn’t something I’m taking day by day, I have a 5, 10 and 15 yr plan. I own my own domain name, I build content each week, I take dancing lessons for future feature dancing, etc, etc. I see where y’all are coming from and I understand I’m the exception not the rule but I got this.

@mharris

Parents divorce took 11 years changed NJ probate…omg Poppy is laughing over my shoulder…I forgot he did the paperwork..anyway..it was dads way of telling mom FU now he had a end around vs trying for custody, he was dying..knew he provided for us…just didn’t know his new wife would fight to get it all ..lmao…I get my love of policy and law honestly..that’s for sure.

What happened to us as kids was long done…until I heard about his gruesome death I was most impressed by Thomas Friday in the class room fortunately.

@mharris

Parents divorce took 11 years changed NJ probate…omg Poppy is laughing over my shoulder…I forgot he did the paperwork..anyway..it was dads way of telling mom FU now he had a end around vs trying for custody, he was dying..knew he provided for us…just didn’t know his new wife would fight to get it all ..lmao…I get my love of policy and law honestly..that’s for sure.

What happened to us as kids was long done…until I heard about his gruesome death I was most impressed by Thomas Friday in the class room fortunately.

I think most KKK members make them themselves. I guess that could be a question for the KKK headquarters in Traverse City. I know I don’t have the balls to ask. 🙂

For the record just because someone wants a good renter that doesn’t create problems or doesn’t want to lease a one bedroom apartment to a chick with six rugrats doesn’t make that landlord a KKK member.

I don’t know what federal law was in 1980 offhand but now even an emancipated 17 year old cannot work in a sexually oriented business (federal law) and by that same federal law strip clubs are legally sexually oriented businesses.

Also I feel badly that you were in a situation where emancipation was necessary for you LR. I hope your life’s trials made you a stronger person at least. Some people come out of such circumstances stronger while others unfortunately come out broken (I think Traci Lords and Lindsay Lohan are examples of being broken at least in the short term).

@BrookeTyler –
Iranians suck too… Whatever.