I use Lemmy primarily. I try not to use Reddit, Meta, TikTok or anything else as much as I can if there is a Fediverse option.

Unfortunately, there are a few things you have to use that stuff for:

• Facebook Marketplace has completely replaced Craigslist in my area.

• Neighborhood apps like NextDoor, even if there are other options, doesn’t matter if your neighbors don’t use it.

• Reddit for specific niche forums. If the community is active on Lemmy, I post questions here first but in some case I need an answer for something that doesn’t exist in the Fediverse yet.

Maybe? I can watch tv while I fold laundry or exercise. I can’t play games and fold laundry at the same time.

No, but i neglect important things to play anyway.

Again? Didn’t they just raise the price in September?

If you have dogs that get along, the dog door would be awesome. I bet the dogs would love it. If I was your neighbor, it would make me very happy to see your dog visit me.

I always thought you would put the posts inward to prevent climbing, but another neighbor installed a fence that was built like you said. I have no idea!

Maybe it doesn’t matter?

Ah yeah that’s rough. He rides a loud motorcycle to work, but I can tolerate it twice a day, especially since it’s at the same time each day.

I’m lucky to have a good one so close.

I said that to him! You read my mind.

He did ask first. We came up with the idea together. I didn’t expect how happy it would make him and his wife. That’s why I wanted to share. ^_

Yes! He was so happy when he could pet the dogs, which is why I wanted to share the picture.

You are exactly right. I’m not too worried about them doing that, but he wanted to make sure my dogs didn’t escape, just in case.

Yeah. I gave him old fence planks to use for building the hatch. He and his wife are a sweet older couple who love dogs. It’s kinda like living next to my dad or my uncle.

Mom?

No worries! Ask as many questions as you like!

It affects the value of the surrounding spaces.

Example: A strip mall has a grocery store. If the grocery is active on the property, the surrounding spaces are more valuable to rent. The landlord can rent the spaces to restaurants retail stores because the grocery store has a lot of foot traffic.

If the grocery store “goes dark” or stops operating at the strip mall, the neighboring Chipotles and Game Stops lose money and close. The landlord can’t fill those spaces as easily as when the grocery store was there.

If the spaces are empty, no rent comes in. No rent means no mortgage payments.

Edit: I forgot to add. Commercial mortgages are different than residential for lots of reasons but a big one is the dollar amount. Some of these properties are $100M loans so the trusts and banks involved have a lot more say as to what goes on at the property.

If you want to fix your sink, you do it. If they want to, they have to get permission to make changes.

As someone who has red hair:

sigh We will get vomiting dogs before I can modify a woman to have red hair.

Actually, I work in commercial real estate.

It’s not uncommon for there to be triggers on these loans that go into effect when a tenant vacates a property, even if they are still paying rent.

They direct control of their rents and they have to pay a monthly fee for management.

I can promise you, the only reason we returned to remote is luck. Our lease happened to be up at the same time our moral dropped.

Still, many of our employees cheered and celebrated the announcement. Take the wins where you can.

My company did a forced RTO. Moral dropped. In one category, it dropped to 14%. We couldn’t hire anyone and people were quitting. Our president kept saying “We will never return to WFH.”

Less than 6 months after he said that, we went fully remote. The whole RTO thing lasted about a year before they gave up.

I hope it helps and you get some good rest. I’ll follow up once I meet with the neurologist and share what I learn.

Did you do a sleep study?

I haven’t done that yet. I’m fairly sure I don’t have sleep apnea, but maybe I’m wrong.

I bet you’d be like that if you didn’t take your ADHD meds anyway. People who say that don’t understand what it’s like.