I need to vent!

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Decided renew my lease for another year at the place I am in...
Rent will go up $60 a week!

$60 frikkin' frakkin bucks! A WEEK! Surely there is some law against such a high increase!

SHEEEEEOooOooT!

[Towers_Spy]

Decided renew my lease for another year at the place I am in...
Rent will go up $60 a week!

$60 frikkin' frakkin bucks! A WEEK! Surely there is some law against such a high increase!

SHEEEEEOooOooT!

Do you have the option to question the rent increase amount? The same thing happened when I renewed my lease, but it was only $20 a week. On the letter stating it was being increased, there was a note saying if I thought the increase was excessive I could go through channels to have it questioned. Maybe you can do that? It does seem a bit much

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Do you have the option to question the rent increase amount? The same thing happened when I renewed my lease, but it was only $20 a week. On the letter stating it was being increased, there was a note saying if I thought the increase was excessive I could go through channels to have it questioned. Maybe you can do that? It does seem a bit much

Hmm, nothing on the letter, but I know from past experience and a chat with the tenants board and I have the option to query. I am currently composing a letter to that effect.

[kup]

Decided renew my lease for another year at the place I am in...
Rent will go up $60 a week!

$60 frikkin' frakkin bucks! A WEEK! Surely there is some law against such a high increase!

SHEEEEEOooOooT!

There isn't at least for Sydney. At my previous place I got hit like that by the Real State so I decided to move. They wanted to increase my rent by $60 for a 1 BR unit with no car space or internal laundry. The stupid thing is that I ended up moving down the road to a 2BR unit with car space and internal laundry with a big kitchen for just $10 more than I was already paying for the 1BR and $50 less than their stupid proposed increase.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Man to sue Lineage II for addiction.

Craig Smallwood says "Lineage II'' left him unable to function independently in daily activities, such as getting dressed, bathing or communicating with family and friends...
The 51-year-old says NCSoft Corp. never warned him about the danger of game addiction.

[1AZRAEL1]

Oh jeez, that can open the floodgates with WOW and every other game

[Autocon]

Man to sue Lineage II for addiction.

games may come with new warnings

[1AZRAEL1]

games may come with new warnings

You mean will come with warnings

Whatever happened to people taking responsibility for their own actions? I mean sure I play games and such, but I stop after a while because there are other things to do. And because I am addicted to some games on facebook, does that mean I can sue the creators of those?

The guy sounds like he lives in his mums basement with no contact to the outside world

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

There isn't at least for Sydney. At my previous place I got hit like that by the Real State so I decided to move. They wanted to increase my rent by $60 for a 1 BR unit with no car space or internal laundry. The stupid thing is that I ended up moving down the road to a 2BR unit with car space and internal laundry with a big kitchen for just $10 more than I was already paying for the 1BR and $50 less than their stupid proposed increase.

I know there isn't one in WA, already checked from last time the rent went up. I tell ya, land prices over hear are ridiculous! Considering the lack of services and such like housing is WAAAAAAY overpriced. I wanna buy a house, but not in WA.

You mean will come with warnings

Whatever happened to people taking responsibility for their own actions? I mean sure I play games and such, but I stop after a while because there are other things to do. And because I am addicted to some games on facebook, does that mean I can sue the creators of those?

The guy sounds like he lives in his mums basement with no contact to the outside world

Or he is looking for a quick buck.

Hopefully it will get thrown out of court, beacause that is just sad. Unless I can sue Mars for Starbursts which has gotten me onto my sugar addiction.

Seriously though, an addiction to something usually points to problems elsewhere. The games people could come back with a "Get your life balance right and you won't get addicted." Sort of motif. I think the only uncontrollable addiction would be a chemical one, so even though playing games would release endorphins or something like that, that is not really the games companies fault is it? Are all people addicted to this game that play it? No, probably not.

Sounds like the guy is a loser. I should be a lawyer!

[1AZRAEL1]

I think the only uncontrollable addiction would be a chemical one, so even though playing games would release endorphins or something like that, that is not really the games companies fault is it? Are all people addicted to this game that play it? No, probably not.

You know, this reminds me of something Lemmy said in an interview (which I watched last night ) where he said that the media focuses on the negatives basically. This was in reference to some kid blowing his brains out because he listened to a certain CD. He went on to say how many people didn't do that? The CD sold 500K and out of all that only one person died? Pretty good odds

You are right though, I think it has to do with his own personal life that is to blame, not the video game. It's the age old story all over again when people want to blame someone else for their own problems.

Could also be that he is just after a quick buck