I had a Swiss Army brand back pack for a little over a year and the main pocket bottom stitching has come apart and I have a big hole in it. I have come to expect great quality based on the Swiss Army knife I have had for close to 20 years, but don’t expect that with other products. After contacting the company that actually makes the backpacks, I find that there is no limited lifetime warranty, only a 1 year one. Unfortunate because I don’t save receipts in case it was less than a year.
Swiss Army Branded Backpacks only have a 1 year warranty.
Does any one have a suggestion for a good backpack? Something relatively light and frameless that has a large capacity and a real lifetime warranty that covers wear and tear? Otherwise I may head to Wal-mart and get the cheapest one I can find expecting it to last only 9 months.
I will leave the management company anonymous as it would be my luck that they would sue me for saying the following….
Read the entire lease in the presence of the leasing agent.
While I don’t usually read the entire lease, I will from this point on. I will also do it while the leasing agent is waiting for me to sign the lease. Who knows what kind of goodies there are in there. I know that they have the right to terminate your lease at any time with no reason, but you cannot end your lease early without being penalized.
We will sue you if you are late with rent for a month.
This is the kicker I found out the other day. With the terrible snow storm, and my online bill payment originating from Pennsylvania, it is no surprise that my payment for rent did not arrive on time. It was sent on Feb 2, for payment on Feb 5, but as of this date, has not arrived yet. We received a note under the door on February 13 that said “we have not received your rent payment and we will take you to court for none payment.” Looking beyond the grammatical error, I was quite surprised the payment had not made it yet. I am convinced it is sitting in a snow covered postal service truck and will eventually make it to the management company someday.
What really urks me is that the leasing office of my building operates separate from the management company. The management company apparently filed a court case for non-payment on Feb 11. This is one day after the final due date for rent each month. Now this is the first time I have ever been late for rent and have been living at this address for close to 15 months now. One would think that perhaps someone should contact me and see if everyting was okay since it was my first time? Apparently not. The leasing office is responsible for notifying. They put a note under my door 2 days after the lawsuit was filed!!!!! Now isn’t that helpful?!
Late for rent one month when ontime for 14 others.
I was able to get my bank to waive the cashiers check fee for payment and the management company is going to waive the late fees since it was scheduled on time and no fault of mine for the lateness. This is good, but very frustrating that the management just sends every reputable renter to court. This seems much like what the credit card companies are doing…. “Thank you for being a loyal customer for 15 years. We are sorry, but during economic hardship, we need to double your interest rate. Thank you again for being a loyal customer.”
Time to buy a house again.
I have learned my lesson. Be your own rental agent!!!! I will be looking for a new apartment soon and better yet a house again where I don’t need to deal with late rent payments :)
Okay..so normally the messages from microsoft are either non-descript BSOD error codes or helpful such as “Out of Disk Space,” but today I got a very nice one which you can see here:
I like how Microsoft tells you that “the following information may help you resolve the error.” I was expecting a “disk full” error or something.
The error message….”Catastrophic Failure” seems quite terminal and would certainly scare me if I relied on the backup.
After hearing so much about Pasta Mia, I took my partner out to celebrate his new job. Forgetting that the restaurant in the Adams Morgan section of DC opens at 6:30, we waiting in line about 30 minutes early. We were not the first in line!
After proving to not be “Smarter than a fifth grader,” we were seated and glanced at the menu. A few things stuck out…
- Cash only (Quite a problem for me with no local bank ATM near by.)
- No Substitutions (Perhaps this was to be authentic, but seriously?)
- $14 minimum per person (Hmm….this was not a no cover bar.)
- No Chicken Parm? (This really was a pasta only establishment.)
So….after not seeing anything that really struck us as a must have, we left and celebrated at the “Duplex” diner at 18th and U street.
Having owned our own restaurant…..and not requiring a minimum charge amount or a minimum per person food cost, we were a bit discouraged. Seriously…Mc Donald’s and Subway accept charge cards! Based on the prices, I don’t think it would break the business if they were to accept the service fees associated with charge cards.
I do think that I will try Pasta Mia someday since so many talk about it, but will certainly have to be in a 100% pasta mood and have hit the ATM :)