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In article <41lf04$e9r@news1.is.net>, Deb Goldgehn <debg@bart.IS.NET> wrote:
>David Chesler (chesler@sunspot.tiac.net) wrote:
>:  For $1200/month (based on Stavros' offer, and it's probably
>: negotiable) I'd gladly make my home base my in-laws house,
>: or my brother's house, and break it up with a vacation someplace
>: else entirely.
>
>That may work for you single kids with no responsibilites, but it's a 

 Check the .sig: I'm responsible for the income (except health benefits
for now) for my wife and my infant daughter.  By the way, people with
in-laws are usually not single kids.  (As they say, when in-laws are
outlawed, only outlaws have in-laws.)

 But it's true, when I was in college, and first starting out, there
were plenty of times when I was nominally homeless, and spent short
periods of time staying with friends, stashing my belongings someplace;
and I've done the same for friends.

 For now, apartment living has done well by me (even with one displacement
without cause, when the landlord wanted to move into the apartment) but
I hope within the next couple of years to figure out what's what and buy
a house.  I'll be exchanging money, and freedom to change, for security
and equity.

>little stickier when you have to deal with a family.  Children can't just 
>be uprooted and temporarily displaced on a whim.  Not to mention the 

 My family had to leave our old neighborhood when I was 8.  It wasn't
that big a deal.  We also moved when I was 2.  It's been done.

>imposition to the in-laws or other relatives...all of mine which happen 

 For $1200/month, there's wealth to be shared.

>I feel that the 'job' of landlord carries certain responsibilites 
>inherent to the position.  In a business sense, it can be compared to 
>employees.  You're dealing with human lives.  You can't treat your 
>employees like you would your paper clips and expect to stay in business 
>for very long. 

  IBM has done quite well for decades with that philosophy.  Sperry
(just before it merged with Burroughs to become Unisys, I don't
know since) did well, but it did find itself with an engineer's
union.
 DEC tried a no-layoff policy, but had to abandon it.
 My employer, Jurisoft, part of Lexis-Nexis, now a Reed Elsevier
company, just had significant layoffs.  Folks are a bit shell-shocked,
but the laid off employees got generous severance pay and that's
it.
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