I gave my notice of leaving my tenancy in mid-December. In my tenancy contract, this is stated as termination of the licence agreement.

It also states:

“The licensee shall not be entitled to any statutory protection under the Housing Act 1988 when this license terminates”

Since then, my landlord agency has shown people around my house with less than 24 hours notice and sometimes giving me no notice at all.

What I’m asking is if this is essentially legal and do I have a leg to stand on, or can my Landlord agency show people around whenever they want?

When I was just starting my career after those bad market years in 2000-2002 I remember talking to someone probably 10 years from retirement. They told me they lost $60K from those three years. That was a huge number to me at the time.

Tonight I figured I would just use the historic rates to see what my hypothetical C fund would do year after year with the 1988 start date and actual annual rates of return through 2021. This doesn't include adding in new money with each paycheck, just the growth of the original balance.

So how crazy was the roller coaster?

Starting in 1988 with $250K I multiplied in the gains to the principal year after year. I would have reached the year 2000 at the peak of the dot com frenzy with ~$1,963,000. From 2000-2002 it would have dropped $700,000. The principal would have increased to $2,237,000 at the end of 2007. Then it would have lost $800,000 when the housing market crashed in 2008. Those are some BIG numbers!

Even with those losses it was amazing to see that hypothetical $250,000 grow to $10 million in 35 years with actual S&P500 return rates and the ~11.25% growth since the C fund started. Compounding is amazing regardless of our actual TSP balances!

Question 1

Should the following excerpt from Section 31 of the Housing Act 1988 be interpreted as "A tenancy or licence is also excluded if A, B and C are all true" or as "A tenancy or licence is also excluded if any of A, B and C are true"

"(3)A tenancy or licence is also excluded if—

(a)under its terms the occupier shares any accommodation with a member of the family of the landlord or licensor;

(b)immediately before the tenancy or licence was granted and also at the time it comes to an end, the member of the family of the landlord or licensor occupied as his only or principal home premises of which the whole or part of the shared accommodation formed part; and

(c)immediately before the tenancy or licence was granted and also at the time it comes to an end, the landlord or licensor occupied as his only or principal home premises in the same building as the shared accommodation and that building is not a purpose-built block of flats."

Question 2

If someone, Bert, moves into a house sometime after October 2015 and pays rent but does not sign a tenancy agreement, what kind of tenancy do they have?

The house is owned by Harold's father. Harold lives in the house and is considered to be the landlord in residence by the other occupiers and the owner of the property and all communications regarding the house are to Harold. Harold's father does not live in the house.

I think the main issue here is: who is the landlord? Does it matter who opened the bank account that rent is paid into? Does it matter who defacto controls the bank account?

Hi,

Currently living with 3 other guys and we all have separate contracts which end at different times. Landlord doesn't spend much time in the UK and, for convenience, is informing us that our contracts will end in august. For the other guys this is ok as their contracts end then, but mine ends in september. As i have been a perfect tenant so far I wanted to check whether he can do this. As I do get on well with the landlord I am willing to leave early, but would insist he pays for my rent in other accommodation.

Thanks for your help.

EDIT: A post on the Lighthouse International Group's closed-community website claims this comment was removed by a "troll". Au contraire! This was removed by an independent moderator of r/cults who was monitoring comments on LIG-related posts due to the, er, dogpiling where users jump on posts to abuse, which in this case were, er, LIG-apologists! That the user was banned instantly is a reflection of the content of the comment itself. Happy New Year!

A user u/WhatisUndertheBridge (who no longer appears to be active) commented here (comment no longer available) at 23:36 the following:

>I have spoken to the relevant leadership at Lighthouse and I can tell you now Mr ******, you may be looking forward to your conversation with your current firm’s (****) HR next week as you stated in a recent post but believe you me, so will the hierarchy of Lighthouse who have been invited into a meeting by ****, in particular the head of HR ********* ******* who recently contacted Lighthouse. The email sent to them on the 24th December was opened more than 20 times by members of the **** senior team as it was shared around your employer’s leadership. You see Mr. ****** the first thing that you need to acknowledge is that what you and your hateful cohorts are doing is utterly criminal. I know you think you might get away with your criminal online activity designed and intended to damage Lighthouse and its hard working and law abiding people and their families, but I can tell you something for sure, throwaway (very appropriately pseudo named) is encouraging you to throw away a lot. Will your fellow partner in crime be there to pick up the pieces of your life for you? For your family? I really don’t think they will! They may be ready to go to prison for their criminal activity (trolling efforts) as they have posted on here, but are you? Look at this persons past posts and comments.
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>Spreading malicious falsehoods designed to destroy people’s lives and hard work online are both illegal and disgraceful. If you have a legitimate legal case with Lighthouse criminal or otherwise as an organisation take them to court, do it legally! The fact that you do not do so proves your claims on here to be false and defamatory more than probably anything else. If your claims and accusations we

Okay I live in UTah in a condo. I have a 1 year old and 1 on the way. We received a complaint from our neighbors stating that my daughters running is too loud and to please stop or they’ll report us. Is this allowed? I also worry because we have a newborn coming and there will be lots of crying. I’m pretty sure both of these go against the fair housing act? And if so, can someone please help me find the direct link to this so I’m prepared? Our quiet hours are between 10pm-7am and my daughter is always asleep during those hours so her running around is never during quiet time, only during the day

DISCLAIMER: I did about 5 minutes of research for this post. I do not work for the university and I have no idea what their actual plans are.

Background

As you all know, a few hours ago Big Kris sent an email which contained the following highly controversial points:

>- Every student should have an individual plan for isolation housing if you have a positive COVID-19 test and quarantine housing if you are exposed to someone with the virus.
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>- Students in university housing should know that on-campus isolation and quarantine housing continues to be limited. Space is not guaranteed. (See the Safe and Healthy Buckeyes website for recommended spaces).

Their website links to a list of "Quarantine and Isolation Hotels" -- which are presumably hotels that the university called up and asked to hold COVID-positive students.

My Theory

As everyone already knew, it's about the money. But maybe not like you think.

The university has literally $100 Million in government grants they can give to students who apply for it. The form is dead-simple, and states:

>The emergency grant can be used to assist with expenses related to a student’s cost of attendance or for emergency costs that arise due to coronavirus, such as tuition, food, housing, health care (including mental health care) or child care.

You don't have to file a FAFSA, and in my opinion a sudden $500-$1000 hotel stay counts as 'financial hardship', even if you don't have financial need. The university can distribute these funds as they wish, as long as you submit documentation. I think it is the university's plan to direct students to request this grant money if they end up in a hotel. This is not a bad thing -- the university doesn't have to directly pay for it this way (it's govt. money), but you do have to actually request it. I think all you'll need is the hotel receipt and documentation of a positive test (don't quote me on that).

They have $100 million (wtf), which if it were distributed equally among our ~65,000 students is $1500 per student -- more than enough for a hotel stay (and not every student will need a hotel stay). Now the university didn't come out and say "we'll pay for your hotel with government

Hi all, received a ban last year for ‘DG10 driving or attempting to drive a vehicle whilst over the prescribed drug limit’

I received my D27 form completed and sent it back in late October first class.

Was not ordered to take any tests or medicals before receiving next license.

Was not classed as a ‘high risk offender’.

I have been trying to look up what conditions are required to drive under section 88 and the more I look the more confusion there is.

My ban has been over for a week now, but with COVID the DVLA hasn’t processed my application yet. (Last update they was up to 1st oct. So almost a month away from getting to my application). Checking my license details it expired on the date of my ban confirming it has not been processed.

From what I first gathered I am not allowed to drive until my license is in the application process. Meaning if I check my details online it will show a new valid from date and then I am classed as having a license and I can drive until I physically receive my license.

Upon further digging some sources (web articles) have implied that section 88 only applies if your license has been revoked for medical reasons. And are awaiting for the DVLA to accept you can drive with medical conditions Others have implied that you don’t need to actually wait until your license is in the processing stage and you can drive as soon as the application has been delivered driving under your previous license. And that it implies to all except high risk offenders.

I have tried talking to DVLA through web chat about this (they urge not to call) and got no help they just gave me a link showing what dates they where processing.

Advice would really be appreciated as I have a job that is just waiting for me to be able to drive before they can employ me and of course being unable to drive for longer than your ban lasted is frustrating too.

Your 14-minute Thursday recap in 3454 words.

##Many Yerevan buildings lack seismic standards / Quakes & aftershocks: what to expect? / How much will it cost to secure all buildings? / What new construction technologies are being used in Armenia today?

The EU and Factor TV wanted to learn about the state of housing stock in Armenia.

Q: why have we been witnessing more earthquakes lately?

Emergency Ministry's "Seismic" department official Nazaretyan: there are active and passive periods. Armenia has multiple seismic zones that are almost always active. One of them is the Javakhq mountain range, which is considered the most active with mild quakes in the South Caucasus. What we've been seeing lately is normal.

The next zone that's always active is the one that caused the 1988 Spitak quake. We've recorded 17,000 aftershocks since then. They have not stopped. Scientists believe that aftershocks normally finish within 2-3 years, but that has not been the case here after 32 years.

Other zones can activate over time. This year we saw the Shorzha and Yerevan zones. We are familiar with Yerevan and Parakar zones; they become active and passive. We are more worried about the Shorzha zone [east of Lake Sevan] because we don't fully understand its characteristics yet. We've been collecting data gradually.

Q: it is believed that 70% of Armenia's housing stock is old and lacks seismic standards. What risks are we facing?

Pashinyan recently spoke about Yerevan's housing stock and "expiration dates". Stone and reinforced concrete buildings have different lifespans. But they are all too old in our case, even if we assume they were built properly with seismic resilience in mind, which is not always the case.

Apartments built before 1957 and the Spitak quake, and the so-called Khrushchyovkas during the Nikita Khrushchev era, are of very poor quality. They are rated for 7-8 point quake, while the risk in Armenia is 9 points. These buildings were never designed to withstand.

This is a serious problem for Armenia because 40% of the population is in Yerevan, and 80% of them live in large apartment complex buildings.

Q: does the recently-approved 5-year government program plan to address this?

The biggest problem is we have 3,700 such buildings in Yerevan alone, most of which do not meet the standards. They should either undergo seismic retrofit or be demolished. This is a serious challenge that requires consid

Seeking your experience of the process to get ACT Housing to pay half or just allow access to replace the fence?

I want to remove the old timber 1.4m fence adjoining my ACT housing neighbours and erect a colorbond 1.8m one. It seems like I just have to email or call their maintenance area. Ive found very little info online. Should I contact them before getting quotes? How long has it taken others to finally have the ok to remove and erect a new one?

All I found Found this buried inside a Tenants Responsibility and Maintenance PDF. Worked out that TFM is Total Facilities Maintenance. "Where a private owner requests replacement the request should be made to the TFM who will carry out appropriate investigations and arrangements. The TFM has the authority to enter into fencing agreements with private owner up to the above standard. "

Any tips or advice?

Fyi there's no appropriate flair for this post and you have to choose one. Why?

Good day ladies and gentlemen,

A user was kind enough to provide me with some copies of the old ACT to share with the cognitivetesting community. The old ACT ostensibly has strong g related properties and I thought it might be interesting to see how it compares to the old SAT (overall I think it is more difficult).

Rather than the usual PDF fare, I'm going to do a Classmarker release for this with automated scoring and data collection.

However, due to historical issues with data collection and people taking tests and not sending me their scores, I'm going to require preregistration for this test.

So, if you would like to take the old ACT:

Send me a message indicating your interest, your age AND scores on any IQ tests you have taken. Professional or reputable tests are preferable. Any tests I have published are satisfactory as are tests on the cogtesting subreddit. If you submit Raven's 2 scores, please use Qglobal results only. IQexam results are of interest as well.

I will not be releasing the test immediately. Once everything is ready to go, I will send you a password protected link to take the test. The password will work only once and I will only allow a single attempt from each test taker, so please do not take the test until you are ready to make a serious attempt.

Cheers, and hopefully the subreddit enjoys the test!

Test information:

The test is broken into 4 subtests. Those subtests are:

1. English Usage (40 minutes)

2. Mathematics Usage (50 minutes)

3. Social Studies Reading and General Knowledge (35 minutes)

4. Natural Sciences Reading and Scientific Knowledge (35 minutes)

Due to the nature and length of the test, the portions will be issued separately and you do NOT have to take them all at once.

Edit: Test will be released soon. Get those registrations in people (Though you can continue to register even after release).

The NORM is here: https://pdfhost.io/v/jX1Ele~T2_Norms_Copyconverted_Copy

Edit 2: The test is out, but you can still register. Test will be available for the next month to those interested.

Edit 3: I am aware of a formatting error re question 67 on the English Usage section. I will not be fixing it at this point in time so that everyone is subjected to it fairly.

So to keep this brief, I have been in a year lease with an apartment complex since August and have 3 roommates not including myself, that has a shared living space. This is in North Carolina. At this apartment complex in normal situations, all roommates have to agree to have a dog in the apartment. I know that 2 of my roommates and myself did not approve of a dog, as there was a roommate “meeting” in October where 2 of my roommates and myself told the other that we did not want a dog in the apartment.

I got an email today from my apartment complex stating that “We would like to advise you that one of your apartment-mates has recently received approval to keep a dog as an assistance animal in your apartment.” And when I reached out to them about this, they said that it involves Federal Fair Housing Laws.

I understand that apartment complexes are pretty much forced for allow emotion support animals. I just can’t find anything about rules dealing with apartments that have roommates.

I also know that this dog is not a service animal and is an emotional support dog.

My question/need advise: How does this work in an apartment that have shared living areas and kitchen. And what are my rights as a roommate that this is being forced upon?

Thank you! Sorry for any possible formatting errors I’m on mobile

I've seen these come from various states, but specifically more recently Washington. Where an agent will make some cute post about how sending a letter to a seller is against the law breaking the Free Housing Act. As far as I can tell sending a letter doesn't actually do this, however I'm not a lawyer and don't know the specifics. Assuming that the letter doesn't involve blackmail or bribery, are these legal?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lodging_Houses_Act_1851

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Last night, the Meesa senate convened to discuss pivotal legislation that is key to the Patterson administration’s agenda. The ‘Meesa Public Housing Act’ and the ‘Love Act’ were both scheduled for a vote late Thursday evening. A total of 7 voting members were present at the meeting.

Picture of the beautiful Meesa Senate chamber from the view of the infamous Peanut Gallery.

The first measure to be debated was the long awaited ‘Meesa Public Housing Act’. During Mayor Patterson’s campaign, he raised the issue that many of Meesa’s “citizens” do not even live in the holy city. There is simply no available or constructed housing for senators and citizens in any of Meesa’s disticts. Many citizens have been forced to sleep in the NASDANK homeless shelter or take refuge in one of Meesa’s many mattress stores. With this new legislation however, all of these poor living conditions would be put to an end. The Bill allowed reduced land purchasing taxes for those wishing to construct residential buildings to rent out as well as closed the resale of land loopholes that could be exploited by Meesa’s wealthy land owners. The government would also collect taxes on rent profits collected by land lords in this new system. The proposed housing act passed the senate with virtually no opposition. Meesa citizens can expect to see new residential buildings popping up very soon!

After touting a great legislative victory, Mayor Patterson then moved on to his next piece of legislation: The Love Act. In this law, polygamist marriages would now be legal as long as all parties are consenting. This law also limited lawyers ability’s to initiate divorce, gave powers to the mayor to approve marriages, and forbids the marriages of players and mobs. These provisions were heavily opposed by Tribune of the Plebs DrPhoprah and the right honorable gentlemen and attorney General hummus Syed. DrPhoprah spoke first on the Love Act in a heartfelt speech where he confessed his feelings for Sir Isaac the IV. “The thought of my feelings for this mob being denied by Law is simply unthinkable,” DrPhoprah said to our capital hill reporters. Awkward silence then filled the senate chamber following Phoprah’s speech as Mr Patterson called for a vote to add mob marriage legalization to the ‘Love Act’. This motion was passed by a razor thin margin of 1 vote.

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In 1988 the UK passed "The Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Offensive Weapons) Order 1988." It lists 14 classifications of weapon, some of them I can understand the reasoning for, like various types of concealed blade or baton, but 7 of those 14 weapons I can only describe as "ninja" weapons.

Those weapons are the "handclaw," the "hollow kubotan," the "footclaw," shurikens, kusari gama (specifically a sickle on a cord), kyoketsu shoge (a hooked knife on a cord), and the manrikigusari (a weight on a cord). Fully half of their 14 weapon list are items that are straight out of a B ninja movie.

Do we have any of the reasoning behind these rules? Were there actual plagues of ruffians using ninja weapons? If it's fearmongering why specifically these weapons?

Hi, sorry for the layout and general bad grammar!

I’ve been living in a Scottish student accommodation for nearly a year and have had repeated issues with them coming into the flat (including bedrooms) completely unannounced. In the past i’ve sent emails pointing out the law that state we need 24hours notice and stating that due to mental health issues (psychosis that includes paranoia about break ins) having people randomly come into the flat and my bedroom is causing me issues. This week alone we’ve had staff come into 2 of our bedrooms while we’ve been sleeping and I’m kind of at a breaking point with it, is there anything I can do?