Sunday, September 13, 2009

Practice Min 2


the big part of the ramp has been taunting me about this move for 6 months. for some reason today it just clicked, finally!
blunt fakie(s)

Practice minutes... woops

so you might notice i wasn't able to contain my self to 1 min.. woops. what a joke! song was jammin so i even tossed in the last "bs 3 youtube cut" clips..



i've done this before, and removed it before anyone noticed. but decided to leave it, whatever already there, and then post a better "Practice Min 2" effort when i've chopped it down.

Saturday, September 12, 2009

$2,000 move out bill dropped (relief) RAVE

landmark (not) scammers RAVE (bellingham)

Date: 2009-09-11, 12:19PM PDT
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about a week ago i posted a rant about the $2,000 move-out bill we'd received from landmark over a year after we'd moved out, explaining the situation and arguing that they had no legal or even moral right to do this.
to my AMAZEMENT, upon calling this morning braced for a battle i was instead met with listening, understanding, some research and the charges were dropped!
WELL. my rant has become a rave of RELIEF.
thank you A*****(i don't want to give out personal info). you seemed to realize that landmark will most likely make more money by spreading a good reputation across whatcom than they ever could through shady tactics of charging good renters.
wanted to share this positive conclusion. and tell the people who sent support emails thank you as well! might not have felt like i had a legitimate argument without the reinforcement.
another quick note for would be renters out there - we did our walkthrus on video. i think this is an easy, powerful way to protect ourselves. consider the camera $2,000 could afford! not like i had it anyways

$2,000 move out bill RANT

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Landmark Scammers! (bellingham)
Date: 2009-09-04, 7:46PM PDT


Holy crap! I just got a letter today, postmarked this week, from Landmark Property Management regarding a tenancy we moved out of over a year ago claiming that we owe $2,000 dollars in move out costs! demanding payment within a week or threatening referral to collections.
This is outrageous for countless reasons! AHH!
To start, the house was filthy when we moved in and cleaned up when we left. We did our walk-through on video showing the sorry (standard yearly-rented beat down bellingham college house) state because we were taking over a broken lease from some losers who couldn't keep up on rent. I have this video. Then were told it looked good on move out, when asked specifically were told that we weren't responsible for normal wear and tear beyond the non-refundable $100 or so portion of the deposit. I'd even gotten a new Pet-Hair vacuum right before moving out which got all the carpets really clean, though of course not brand new again.
Someone has been living there for the past year.
NOW they are trying to charge me $1,000 over a YEAR later for replacing the old carpet that is completely their responsibility.
And fault realistically if they're saying it needs to be replaced because Landmark had neglected to repair a continually worsening hole in the roof over the living room, which ruined one of our xbox360s the first time it leaked through into the house and was noticed. Our loss i guess, we're chill people and called it an unfortunate accident that just sucks. We repeatedly called requesting the hole be repaired, water was getting into the insulation, walls and floor. This went on for over a month in rainy Bellingham until finally we called furiously telling them was a garbage bucket set in our living room that was filling with water and would get pictures. When they finally did "fix" it, they just left all the moldy rot inside, and slapped a new roof on top (i assume using the owners money) with a sunlight where the hole used to be. Super. For the next renters, owners, us, but especially for their profit.
NOW they're trying to take advantage of ME and screw me over for completely NEW carpet? The list goes on.. damn, i can't type it all.
I attempted to contact Landmark over a dozen times the first few weeks after we turned in keys and did our walk-thru in order to collect some of our deposit that i hoped might remain as we left the place in good shape. Was repeatedly calling, leaving phone numbers for myself and the two other roommates as well as new addresses we were all moving away to (which is the way they are NOW contacting me) asking for information. I could never get past leaving messages.
Life is busy, and i'd heard that there was a 90 (or 14) day policy requiring them to return the deposit. We all moved on and figured time had run out, whatever.
Now in hopes i've lost the paperwork (think i have it, not sure where though) and that they can completely screw over some college kids for $2,000 they're trying to do THIS?
THIS IS A SCAM and i resent it! Isn't there some sort of protection from this treachery for the normal guys?
I'm so furious with this, that house was the last thing on my mind or that i should be dealing with right now. It's been really hard to make it financially lately anyway. Landmark Property Management needs to lose more than they gain for these scams somehow.
Any useful suggestions?

Friday, September 11, 2009

splitting the difference

by posting these few vids i'm learning a lot. so i've decided to keep posting the "practice" type fun learning stuff on the blog with jams and whatnot, probably doin the practice min thing. then will be putting "better" stuff on youtube with slightly higher resolution and probably no jams (as WMG and youtube went RETARDED once they realized there was something good going on without their profiteering). "better" meaning only the few seconds of sweet moves that might have been happened to be filmed. not the whole drawn out daily story or any context really.
i think the story is more fun.
but for the "world" of youtube, prolly want to put better foot forward as there are plenty of loser retards out there.
HAH

computer crashed!

Yeah, so my computer crashed today....
CRAP.
it would boot, but the fan was maxing out and would start loadi-CRASH! so opened and blew it out with my wet-dry vac on reverse, then put a box fan blasting on it with the cover open. tried lots of things, kept booting and maxing out.. a reboot screen eventually came up warning that the CPU was overheating causing shut-down. went into task manager right after startup and got into a shutting-them-down battle with anything loading trying to keep the strain dow-CRASH!
GREAT.
turns out my computer has a weird 4pin P4 CPU fan. not to be found at Badbuy, or two small shops i went by after that wasted trip (couldn't reach anyone by phone).
CRAP.
turns out my computer has become half of my life! oh man. weird how things creep up on us like that. it's relevant to imagine if we weren't able to plug in to electricity, how utterly shell-shocked millions of people would suddenly be. massive effects. think there's a shouthpark about there being no internet LOL.
was referred to seattle or the internet, and told to buy some thermal glue if i find one that fits.
GREAT.
it was after 6pm friday evening when i grabbed the "action pages" and started desperately calling random computer places.
i'm typing this now.
because someone actually called me back! one of the local computer shop owners (Renaissance Computer Services) lived nearby and had a computer that's CPU had toasted in a power surge with the same fitting fan, and EVEN fancy for me RAM that fits mine!
DOUBLE GREAT.
i've now doubled up to 1G (with more RAM that even runs at a higher speed) and have a fan (with some thermal glue yep) that works. the old one was always "loud," turns out it wasn't securely connected so was going crazy to keep up. new one is sort of chirpy, but SO quiet compared to my old one.
and the RAM boost is SOOOO noticeable. one of my pet peeves with my computer was waiting for the volume control to come up. if a vid was super loud or quiet i'd be waiting, messing around and frustrated until i could adjust it while blasting my speakers out or straining to hear. and inevitably restart the video over. i'd gotten used to waiting a LONG time for stuff to work after double clicking while i was multi-tasking to make vids or whatever. a trial of patience (less than 30seconds haha).
back up and running now. better than ever.
oh YEAH.

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