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user-inactivated  ·  3168 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Homeless and uneducated. What would you do with $100k?

    Why need to show you are bringing in income when you have a nest egg big enough to pay rent for years?

For the relatively sound reason that a bank statement really says nothing about what sort of expenditures the account is responsible for. In fact it basically proves nothing. I had an extra hundred thousand dollars in my bank account just last month, through various circumstances, but it was only nominally mine to spend.

Additionally, tenants with jobs have likely already passed through character checks, criminal record checks and so on. Tenants with 100k possibly haven't.

A holdover in an extended stay motel is the answer here.





_refugee_  ·  3168 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm thinking also of the fact that someone who can hold down steady employment has already demonstrated they are consistently reliable, able to hold down a job, etc. They are inherently that much easier to trust.

Get on IRC flaggy

user-inactivated  ·  3168 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Are we still on freenode?

_refugee_  ·  3168 days ago  ·  link  ·  

scroll all the way down and click the link in the footer

it pretends to be hubski now, it's nice

user-inactivated  ·  3168 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't like mibbit.

_refugee_  ·  3168 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't like a lot of things but they're still good for me.