Old fashion PM. Good tenant means less work. Easy money. Upstart PM would be more aggressive. My PM in Austin is old fashion, seem to be pro tenant, small increase in rent per year, now 10% below market. In any case the initial asking rent is 3% below market… Many folks apply, choose the most probable good tenant, keep increment low so as not to piss tenant off to look for another rental. Adjust back to 3% below when tenant leaves.
I employs similar approach for SV rental.
Decent young people who are actually mature and independent enough to get married will pay for their own wedding IMHO. If the parents of either party want to chip in, that’s a gift.
When it comes to "which side pays for the wedding’ it’s no longer a wedding for, by and of the couple getting married. It’s a family even AND all that’s good and bad about that. We don’t marry families.
I’m not sure what to think. If they’re not going to bother renovating the property (and i don’t think the landlords want to put money into that), then their choices are
Pricing it low to go (at which point they should simply raise the rent on us a bit more at a time–known tenant is better than unknown)
Pricing it at market and watching it have yearly turnover when people figure out that carpets won’t get replaced and paint will peel because the paint job was cheap (no primer/one coat of latex sometimes over oil paint).
Ending up with 6 adults and attached children as tenants since the PM takes the first application whose background checks check out.
Apparently #3 is the application they got before us which failed because one of the adults’ background check didn’t go through. But I can certainly understand why they might like to keep a single family rather than risks 3 of the same size.
This could be a thread in itself, but with at least Asian weddings, the common thought or expectation is that you will receive back in gifts/cash about 50% of the total cost paid on the wedding. Non-Asian of course I do not have any idea but it would be great to hear what folks here say about it. Again, this is dependent on whether one has a chinese banquet style dinner (10 per table) which tends to be cheaper (not always) than say a single plate hotel style dinner. And again, there is a lot of leeway here and it will depend on how generous your relatives are as a whole and how expensive your wedding actually was. I think we did ok since our relatives are from NY so they know what things cost and the St. Francis Yacht Club for the whole day was pretty spectacular. Most people thought it was really really expensive and actually it was not. Now, for a traditional Chinese guy, one would think why an American style wedding well we also had a combo rehearsal/Chinese banquet dinner for all of the out of towners and immediate relatives the night before.
Wow…
What did they assign for preschool homework?
My kids went to preschool (with extended care of course) in local church and never got any homework.
It was all about playing playing playing.
I loved the place and teachers. (when your kids have to stay there long hours, all you care is “how nurturing and caring teachers are”.)
To be honest, having homework for preschooler would have been very stressful for me not to mention for my kids.
Homework should be assigned only to kids who can do it by themselves independently.
Well, I don’t think I can be a tiger mom not because I don’t want to but because I am incapable…
Finding things that are circles or start with certain letters, write it down, send it in so that it could be discussed in circle time. What is a kid thankful for, make a poster, send it in. I don’t mind the “get a picture of your family and decorate it” assignment as I appreciate being able to identify the moms/kid combos, but anything else, I tossed.
I 100000% agree with this rule. That is why Kindergarten homework drives me nuts. Even if the kid is willing to do it, I still have to read them the directions. That makes it my homework. Dude I did my time in school plus some. I’m done with homework. But I really think most kids aren’t ready to sit and study after school until 4th or 5th grade. Even my super smart, mature, kid with a long attention span had to have his hand held to sit and do homework until 3rd grade. He just wanted to relax and play with LEGOs.
That said, my daughter loves homework. Go figure. So she follows me around the house having me read her the directions
I don’t remember having homework but went to a Montessori preschool. So I learned to count and cut apples and stuff like that, which is basically classwork
Oh, I see.
They were better than what I imagined.
Kids probably like those kinds of homework.
I suspect my kids full time preschool(day care) didn’t assign any homework because they knew working moms hated homework and I am grateful they understood it.
In any case I hate K-12 here, designed for girls. Your point that your daughter loves homework confirms my suspicion. I always dislike that majority of the teachers are ladies… they don’t understand boys.
I know.
They are really my homework…
Well, to me, one benefit is I can learn what US curriculum look like.
I learned US history with my older one.
However, when I had to work on heritage doll project with my younger one, I got really stressed out.
First, I thought I just ordered some materials for her. Then, her teacher sent an e-mail with some sample works.
It made me really nervous because every single sample looked so beautiful and high quality (our doll looked so so ugly compared to them and the subject my daughter like and care the most is art…).
I started working on it harder and it became really my project… (I know it was my big mistake.)
My daughter got upset at the end because I didn’t let her do most of the part…
Similar experience with science fair.
I saw PhD thesis level slides in 3rd grade science fair and FPGA board in 6th grade science fair etc.
Since then, I get even more stressed out than my kids whenever I hear the word “science fair”.
Not high school yet? All those CTA (fancy name for analysis based on evidences) essays, you can only get A if you can write like a PhD and understand the teacher’s attitude to life. My son started off with a C and finally got A in the last year. English Literature is the only subject he didn’t get an A throughout the high school except the last year. Frankly, I don’t care much about academic, too easy, is the social, communication and leadership skills that I’m concern with. Without them, you’re destined to work like a dog and being paid peanuts for those who have, regardless of your IQ.
Did you give your kids stock account to play with? Or push them out to start their own businesses on the side? I am thinking I may do that to my kids when they are older, like 13 or so.
I foresee the danger of TV and has gone TV-free ever since the oldest one was born. In this day and age it’s super easy to be an “entrepreneur”. A kid can sell things on Amazon or Etsy for example. Or write some simple app and sell for 99c. No excuse not to at least try.
Agree. However, kids have to be willing. You can’t force a horse to drink water if it doesn’t want to. My next best wish is he finds a good leader like Jack Ma .
My older one Just started HS.
After reading your post, i suddenly miss korean education system where your grade is determined mostly by tests with multi choice questions.
Well, my friends tell me that is no longer the case even in Korea nowadays.
.