Rent Controller OG

Rent Controller OG

@alisonb916.bsky.social

Little old lady who whines about a lot of stuff. Misses her husband a lot. Raving radical.

690 Followers 658 Following 4,417 Posts Joined Jun 2023
4 hours ago

For no reason having a missing John day.

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7 hours ago

I always knew that John was more likable than I am. It was never a question.

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2 days ago

I’m old.

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2 days ago

My new brush isn’t as good as the old one, but it doesn’t have to make it 30 years.

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2 days ago

Eventually every hire will be a DEI hire. “At least they’re competent.”

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2 days ago

I’m a calico. I don’t have to do that.

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3 days ago

Now he wants to go outside. You are kidding, cat.

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3 days ago

He was inside all along. I am so pissed with him. I was worried!

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3 days ago

Graham is missing. I thought he was on the bed, but he’s outside.

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3 days ago

It’s lazy and sloppy. But I have other things to do.

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3 days ago

That’s just not good analysis. Sorry.

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3 days ago

But your wife is right. As an old, I really am irate that young women have fewer rights than I did in 1975.

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3 days ago

Housing is a whole different issue in states with a lot of rich people.

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3 days ago

A pregnant person can face huge medical bills, fatal birth defects, infection, or death. A few days in the ICU can bankrupt a family, even with good insurance.

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3 days ago

I pointed this out as a minor issue in Austin’s rent/housing prices. The problem isn’t for people who want an abortion. They can fly to another state and have an abortion. The problem is when the pregnancy goes sideways in the second or third trimester. 1/2

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3 days ago

Steve Barton has done rent control work for decades.

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3 days ago
4.5.1a.2.3 Connecticut

In Connecticut, owners and landlords must apply to the state’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) for permission to submeter electricity for tenants. Connecticut prohibits ratio utility billing systems (RUBS),131 another type of third-party utility billing which is addressed in § 4.5.1b, infra. State law requires that the submetering rules provide consumer protections, including protection from utility termination.132

Submetering applicants (owners or landlords) and co-applicants (third-party vendors or submetering companies) are subject to PURA’s jurisdiction. PURA can revoke submetering approvals, order immediate cessation, and impose fines.133

Limits on charges and fees, and other protections.
 A Connecticut landlord may not bill a tenant for an amount that is more than the monthly bill that the tenant would have received as a direct customer of the utility company.134 Tenants are to be billed, based on their usage times, the average rate per kWh for the building. The average rate per kWh for the building is the total monthly bill for the master meter divided by the number of kWh on the bill. Only a $5.00 late fee for balances more than thirty days in arrears is allowed.135 The cost of energy for the hallways, common areas, and garages is the responsibility of the owner. Also, PURA prohibits the inclusion of the owner’s costs for submetering billing (e.g., third-party meter reading, meter testing, and billing) in the tenant’s electric bill. PURA’s rationale is that this will facilitate auditing.

Super jealous of Connecticut's RUBS law. Text from @nclc4consumers.bsky.social .

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4 days ago

Israel is apparently looking for an off-ramp too. We bombed a school full of kids—for this?!

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5 days ago

Who could have predicted this?

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5 days ago

Yeah, I know it’s a hairbrush. And I don’t think John had any interactions with my hairbrush.

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5 days ago

It’s ridiculous that I feel sad getting rid of the hairbrush I’ve had for 30 years. John will never know the new hairbrush.

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5 days ago

This isn’t the way to the park.

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5 days ago

John always remembered to wish me a Happy International Women’s Day.

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6 days ago

Set the clocks forward. Going to sleep now.

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6 days ago

Fixed the skate.

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6 days ago

Years ago, we were in Canada, sitting in a local park before a concert. A kid walked over to my husband and asked for help with his skate. My husband fixed and the kid thanked and went back to his friends. Here we just do “stranger danger.”

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1 week ago
Preview
Susie Wiles sounds the alarm on gas prices White House aides and Cabinet officials are coming under intense pressure to reverse the spike in energy prices caused by the start of the war in the Middle East.

You get the sense that they really, really didn’t think this through.
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

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1 week ago

Is anyone else unnerved by the failure of anyone in the Administration to think, what’s going to happen to oil prices if we prosecute this war?

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1 week ago
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New York judges add new obstacle for low-income tenants with housing vouchers A panel of judges said a law banning discrimination against Section 8 recipients actually violates landlord rights.

This is a bad decision, but governments generally have the right to inspect rental housing, and landlords are running businesses, ferhevensake!
gothamist.com/news/new-yor...

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1 week ago

It should make us very nervous that no one in the US military structure mentioned the oil issues that would come from an attack on Iran.

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