• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone
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    Normally I love putting stuff together, like Ikea furniture etc etc

    I’m now in a room with the door locked trying to build this cat tower and there’s a monster on the other side of the door who is DEMANDING to be let in.

    Edit: She realised if she jumps high enough she can pull the door handle down and open the door.

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    At my second inspection. Crusty old dude rocks up and talks only to me and asks if I’m viewing the apartment, then asks if I’m single and gives me this creepy grin and says he’d prefer a single to move into the apartment. Oh and of course he’s the owner. Shakes my hand and encourages me to apply. Completely ignores the other attendees (male).

    I might’ve seriously considered this apartment despite the very dated kitchen and bathroom and no fly screens, it’s pricey but in a very quiet green location and has a sunlit balcony… But after the above interaction I am definitely not applying wtf

    E: I am meant to be cleaning the house but our purritude has other ideas. Purrhaps she has sensed my overall distress. I’ll miss this lil sweetie when she leaves on Monday

    little nugget on my lap

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        Sucks because I really might’ve seriously considered it for the quietness and the cleanliness. Light filled and still convenient for work. I was sat in the park wondering if I stuck on my own fly screens and everything else worked okay, could I still stick it out since there’s a REA intermediary… Esp as this is probably one of the few times I have an advantage (??) as a single renter. But it’s for entirely the wrong reasons

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          Yeah. That’s not the sort of advantage you’d want for sure, it’s creepy and puts you in danger I’d say as well.

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      I find it odd the LL is at the inspection if he has a REA managing the property? And the whole interaction, yikes. The LL will probably have keys. Stay the hell away!

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        Yeah it smacked of over-involvement. No thanks! Luckily I’m not being made to vacate so I don’t have as much pressure, I’ll keep looking.

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        Yeah he seems like the kind of guy who lives nearby and might get… too involved in a bad way. He told the REA to send him a report of all the applicants immediately for his review, within earshot of us all. I can’t think of any reason why a LL would prefer a single tenant over a couple except that a single person is easier to bully/manipulate. I think I’m going with my gut on this one

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          Yep. More than that he might have keys and could randomly let himself in when you’re not home, place hidden cameras, invite himself over when you are there and push boundaries…

          He dived to try and create a situation where he could have a massive power differential with/access to a single woman. Which is not a safe situation.

          And being a single isolated person does make you easier to bully/manipulate.

          He seems like a massive creep and a danger

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            Letting himself in when you are not home is probably a best case scenario. When I used to work at Legal Aid they had a case where they were doing an urgent Intervention Order for a woman who had woken up in the middle of the night to find the landlord and his son in the bedroom.

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              Yeah. It seems fucked up and extreme that women have to consider these possibilities but yeah.

              Whether this guy “only” planned to become overfamiliar and harass a lone female tenant or he planned to push the boundaries in another way, this guy very obviously didn’t have good intentions.

              Kind of stressed out for any woman who can’t find somewhere else before her lease ends or if he learns to be less obviously creepy upfront

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      There’s something about the eyes of Soxcats that always stand out.

      Don’t know if it’s the colour and the shape but Soxcat always looks so serious.

  • Duenan@aussie.zoneOP
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    Of thank F…!

    Commbank finally reversed the duplicate transaction that put my account into the negative by a large margin.

    Spent the whole day stressing about it. I hope that’s the end of the ordeal and nothing else happens.

    Might actually think about getting a 2nd bank account somewhere else just as a backup sometime.

    Now I finally concentrate on doing other things other than worrying about things.

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        They did maintenance last night and when it came back live it started duplicating transactions I made on Thursday, which happened to be when I had some payments to make.

        It really sucked and just shows if something like that happens the bank won’t be there to cover you.

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      That’s a relief for you!

      I have accounts with a couple of banks for that reason. I’ve considered starting an additional one too, but I’m not sure if that’s overkill.

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        Yeah so it doesn’t leave me in a bind like this even though it’s exceptionally rare.

        Anyway I’m going to destress tonight if I can. I’ve wasted basically all day monitoring it all.

  • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone
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    Breaking news - Rossmoyne Street in Thornbury is having a collective garage sale tomorrow at 10 am to 3 pm - lots of people are all coming together to put excess stoff out for sale. Just got told. See you there.

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    Bailed and went home, while partner and his dad go to dinner. My everything hurts, and for the first time Macca’s has made me feel better rather than worse.

    Thank you nuggets and fries 👌🏼

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    Woke up in a massive panic this morning to an overdrawn back account message.

    Panicked like hell to try and work out what happened.

    Commbank have really stuffed up and duplicated transactions and now has left me overdrawn and unable to get anything today.

    They better fix this up. The duplicated transaction was the biggest thing I had to pay, why couldn’t it have been an 8 dollar transaction?

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      I have had pretty good luck with the IUD cutting out a lot of the nonsense. Probably is having some kind of an effect on the rest of my body but I’ll take it over the nightmare of the monthly bleed and weep

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    Figured I’d make a new comment for visibility - for anyone trying to comment/make a post from lemmy.world instance - it isn’t visible to anyone on Aussie.zone for 7 days (if it even syncs at all) There was a post explaining it months ago, seems like it still isn’t fixed. https://feddit.org/post/3524876

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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    I put on the first Paddington movie for the boys the other day because I heard it was good when it came out, and it is quite good.

    It’s silly and over the top in all the right ways, with a villain that’s just evil with clear motivations. It felt like a 90s movie made with today’s technology.

    Also turns out the director worked on Darkplace and directed all the Mighty Boosh episodes so of course it was going to be good