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Sounds bad. What the heck happened, champ? I'll break down his wall of text:
Lol unexpected but here goes. I'm management at a business supply store and I make $17/h while working 50-55 hours a week.
He's talking about Staples. When's the last time anyone has stepped in there?
So since I can't afford an obnoxiously small 500sqft 2 bedroom apartment for $1000-$1300/m I spend (usually) just under $1800 for this crack motel that's perpetually moist, loud, and rundown. EXCEPT I live in a college town with no car so our football games are back on so just for yesterday alone I was price gouged $280+ because quote “I can”. So I have recently had about $20 to get me thru the week.
Let me try to understand: this man does not have a car so he would prefer to live in a motel within walking distance. Motel rooms aren't much bigger; seriously I do not understand his logic at all 
“Why haven't you used our store share fund?” Probably because they basically told me to go frick myself twice already. What am I gonna do? Find a better paying job? Not around here. Move out of the city? I have no car and refuse to walk on the side of the interstate for miles on end (which I'd assume is illegal anyway and for a brown man in this shit hole of a C*NTtry I'd like to stay away from police) to get to the job that clearly hates the people that work there.
Poor man. Before you chuds get uppity: if you haven't caught on yet, he likes to make excuses for everything so invoking his race card is just eyerolling 
He's Irish/Mexican by the way 
Plus they still WANT not NEED you to make 3 TIMES the rent. THEY ARE EXPECTING PEOPLE WHO MAKE LAWYER MONEY TO WANT TO LIVE THERE.
Forgot about that rule 
I can sympathize with him here...well, it isn't much of a rule. I wonder if something else is afoot 
Again…. I'm not asking for the fricking world, just a tiny butt apartment I could call my “own”. Thanks for coming to my shitty rant lol at least feels good to get it out. I appreciate your time.
Sidenote: “how are you homeless if you're employed?” Was that an actual question? Or a little sass? Because honestly I see it either way lol
No comment. Maybe he wishes he has that Hotwheels money right about now? 
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How long has he been in this situation? Not long from what I can tell; the first mention of homelessness was a couple months ago and older posts show pictures from what appears to be a garage. In this post, he is referring to himself and others; I could only find a mention of a future wife a couple years ago, which leads me to believe they moved in together at some point.
On that first mention of homelessness:
Yeah you're fricked. I doubt your income is the issue. Have you ever had a license? Bank account and credit??
These are all good questions
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Did you notice something? He's a huge stoner
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Moved in with his gf at some point
Is 29 years old and seems predisposed to work wagie jobs (previously at Family Dollar) (more rage
]Split up a few months ago and moved out
Trying to scrape by, using methods like ordering DoorDash
I think he is on the east coast and the county he lives in starts with a "P". He mentions Wawa in one comment, which appears to be a east coast chain, which leaves only six some states he could be in. Plus, he probably lives near a college. Why can't people redact private information properly?
Not very much is interesting about him in his other posts; just typical reddit-tier opinions.
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17 at 55 hours a week with OT puts him at the income needed for an apartment. They will mostly only ask for the most recent 2 either way.
Guy is r-slurred. They also use pre tax income when looking at rent like this.
A lot of places also use 2x or 2.5x not 3x.
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Yeah let's all listen to the guy who has his rent paid by his girlfriend's parents. I'm sure he knows everything about apartments and renting
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Having a daughter remains the ultimate and final cuck.
Trans lives matter about 59% of the time.
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If I had a daughter I would make sure she got on testoerone before she was born
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you act like gigolo isn't a good job
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Do burgoid bug people really?
I bet he considers himself ‘middle class' too
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Burgoid bug people are real, and they are just like you and me. They're made in the image
of God, and they're worthy of love and respect. Just because someone is different 
doesn't mean they're not worth our time and attention.
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If you ain't bringing in 62k you ain't middle class.
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And even if you don't, many will work with you to fill vacancies. Especially right now rentals are sitting open.
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he makes $44,200 annual, has no wife, no kids, no car payment, no car insurance, no gas, no oil changes, no water bill, no electric bill, no trash bill
and he's broke?
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Ive lived the motel life for a bit and that's expensive on it's own. You have to be legitimately r-slurred not to get out of it tho
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He spends $1800 on a hotel. Where does the other nearly half go
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Cant cook bro the grocery store is too far to walk to man i gotta order ubereats for every meal, frick man weed is so expensive now and my
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I lived in one of those POD places with no kitchen and I still kept my food budget low by eating a single time a day. Also I avoided colossal obesity the same way lmao
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That's why we need communism
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Idk how america works but I imagine you're shaving at least 10% off that full pretax amount. Then you have food, he's living in a motel so likely has no option to cook so that'll cost a lot. Then you have the booze and drugs to pretend like you aren't living the worst life possible.
He should unironically save as much as possible, buy a shit car and then live out of that car until you can afford an apartment.
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I just bought a mini fridge for my office. $140. I keep sandwich stuff for lunch, a few steaks, some white claws, a couple snacks. I could easily fit a weeks or more worth or food if I needed. An induction burner is cheap these days, get a Walmart cast iron pan, and a steel pot (probably $100 all together). $250 or less would pay for itself in less than 10 doordash meals.
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I lived on 26k a year for 5 years and on thar managed to pay off all my school debt, take multiple international vacations, buy a car, a new computer, and two new laptops, and still eat out way too often. I genuinely don't know what these people are doing with their money. I did split rent with housemates but it seems like many people don't consider that as an option for whatever reason.
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Motel hookers
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I mean, respect if so
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jesus christ, just mspaint some fake bank statements and find a owner-managed property to rent. poor people are too stupid to even poor properly.
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Get a bike you fat cute twink. Quit being a kitty. Jesus
fricking 
christ 
I hate these whiny counts who refuse 
to suffer for 30 minutes a day to improve their lives 
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why not just take an intercity bus?
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It's a few miles, you wouldn't get embarrassed?
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This is probably regional but many landlords and especially larger property management firms will require proof 2.5x or 3x of rent as pre-tax income (often by showing a pay stub).
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I'm well aware and he's definitely fricked. That same post
he never answers that commenter's question. Either way I agree he's definitely fricked.
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$17/hr for 50hrs/week is $3740/month pre tax. That meets the 3x's level. Also if it's a college town probably pretty easily to find a roommate. Something smells fishy here.
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The modern youth don't seem to grasp the concept of a room mate. They will make excuses about not knowing anyone….words words words. B-word, you go to the apartment and they match you with a room mate in a college town. All these neighbors demand a 2 bedroom apartment also, you notice. What's wrong with a bedroom and shared kitchen?
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because you get stuck with dumb monkeys who refuse to us headphones or insist on having people over all the time
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So not only do the youth refuse to be !nooticers they also refuse to put them in a situation where they would be forced to nootice. I'm sorta excited to see how bad things get
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The Bible
tells us to be in the world, not of the world 
(John 15:19). We are called to be salt and light 
(Matthew 5:13-16), nooticers of Christ 
in a dark and lost world. The youth of today 
refuse 
to put themselves in a position where 
they would 
be forced to nootice 
the lost and broken 
around them. They would 
rather be comfortable and safe in their little 
bubbles. But comfort 
and safety are not what Christ 
calls us to. He calls us to love others, even our enemies (Matthew 5:44). He calls us to go into the world 
and preach the gospel to all nations 
(Mark 16:15). The time is coming when people will no longer be able to hide from the truth. They will have to face the consequences of their actions. And, as Christians, we need to be ready 
to share the hope that we have in Christ 
with those who are lost and broken.
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Don't want to live like a poor person? Then don't be poor.
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I'm guessing funkos or doordash. Probably the latter if he's living in the motel room.
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1800 x3 is 5400
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He said rent is $1200. He's paying $1800 for the motel.
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you're r-slurred if you think you can get a full time retail job without some sort of state ID.
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Room service + crack sounds like a good deal to me
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Lmao
These cheap motels most certainly do not clean your room
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I suppose having a cleaner barge in on your 5-day-long crack-fueled gooning session would spoil the mood, to be fair.
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It takes days to get that stank just right
the perfect mix of John Players, c*m, bud light, freebase crack and crystal meth fumes, you can't have abuelita let it all waft out into the hall
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Plus your room is cleaned for you.
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It's a flophouse. There are 2 staff, one is a sexy Indian dude behind plexiglass (also the owner) who will sell you loose cigarettes and tallboys from under the counter, the other is a former tradie handyman named Dave or Bill with absolutely crippling alcoholism who does "work" in lieu of paying rent. His skills include patching plaster with drywall offcuts and packing tape and nailing new carpet over old carpet. Claims to know plumbing and electrical but the copper and brass seem to always disappear from his projects.
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My man Dave or Bill
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Theyre real ones
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What about the whores. They can't as employees there too
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$1800 will get you a small camper, crappy car, and a couple months at a campground. You can hire somebody to tow it or ask the seller if they'll transport it for $100. That or buy an older Winnebago and park it on the campsite. Crackheads on the West coast can find these things.
How do you even get two bedrooms in 500ft²? My garage is 784ft² and I couldn't see dividing it into two bedrooms, bathroom, and kitchenette.
The bedrooms in my house are rather small. One can fit a queen, the other a king, and one dresser each. Those plus the narrow bathroom are close to 400ft².
I love the Midwest. On $15/hr I covered mortgage (no housemates), newer well-equipped sedan, and name-brand food. Probably take about 20/hr in today's economy but still doable if you're getting OT consistently
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The most Catholic man alive
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Yeah especially if he's going to be a fricking Staples Manager. It's probably going to be a $17 hour job in Nebraska and the same in NY so might as well live where the CoL is half if that's all he aspires to be.
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Okay but for real those Johnny Lightning toy cars are super fricking detailed for how cheap they are. I pick up one about once a week for my neurodivergent neighbor kid who's obsessed with cars and I'm trying to help him develop good taste in autos.
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Personal favorite.
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Why do people refuse to have roommates anymore?
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My SukFuk 9000 can get noisy and generates a lot of heat. I'd drive my poor roommates crazy.
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TIL my first roommate's on rdrama
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What up my rooma?
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Why is this sign so r-slurred? Why not have "Date:______________" instead of all that stupid shit for circling? I'm guessing it's designed for pizzashills.
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Does he mean he can't apply for renting a micro apartment because of the 3x rent rule?? Otherwise this doesn't make sense
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Even if for some reason all the landlords in that town are very strict on that (even though it's just a rule of thumb), one wonders, why not a 1-bedroom apartment or a studio or subletting a room or Anything That Isn't a Crack Motel?
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Right??
Seems like there is maybe one reason people go to crack motels and also would explain why such a big chunk of his income is unaccounted for
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Neighbours complaining about being price gouged cause he has to pay extra for a motel when the town is extremely busy
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Uhh Amerisharts if we are really
so much poorer than you why am I making more money 
as an intern than this guys does as a "manager"
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He works at Staples, duh
I can make pizzashill the "manager" of cleaning turds out of the Footlocker pottys or whatever but that's just a title and doesn't mean he isn't just a retail wagie at the end of the day
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We gave the receptionist the title "Director of First Impressions". Titles are meaningless
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They look nice on resumes
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That's cool. I gave my secretary the title "Director of Sucking [My] Peepee"
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50 hours @ $17/hr = $935. 4 paychecks/month. $3740 before deductions.
It reads like this hardworking socialist applied to his first choice of apartments, was turned down because OT isn't guaranteed income, and as a result declared all apartments in his city out of his price range.
There's not a single landlord around willing to rent to people without proof of income?
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Snapshots:
Meanwhile I'm paying $80+ a paycheck for “benefits” I couldn't afford the deductible for because I'm homeless and would rather maybe food or the wildly expensive crack motel I'm forced to stay in because it's close enough to walk to work and back.:
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Thanks to the lazy slumlords, me making a measly $2,800/m isn't nearly enough to rent a 500sqft two bedroom apartment. Just curious exactly how fricked I am.:
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Great job my man! Kind of in the same boat as you! My girlfriend and I have been together for a year and a half and we're best friends for four years before I had the opportunity/balls to ask her out. We'd be married by now but COVID hit us pretty hard. (Just what it's done, not us catching it) working on getting back to normal and been looking for a house as well! I just think it's pretty cool how similar we are currently. I've never had a dad, but I'd write you a card too. I'm sure you deserve it friend. Continue kicking butt every day. You got this.:
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When i made 10/hr back in the day, the idea of having an apartment without roommates was absurd. Everyone my age had roommates. Why is a single bedroom unit considered the bare minimum today?
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If you're 29 years old and the best you can do is minimum wage shit like moving items around in a store (a job a child and robots can do), either radically change your life style now (like give up society and live in the woods or die trying) or just keep yourself safe. Because its seriously never going to get better for you and it'll just be worse.
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