YScraper not so friendly? - Justin.tv getting evicted, Auctomatic denied apartment(dontevictjustin.weebly.com)
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YScraper not so friendly? - Justin.tv getting evicted, Auctomatic denied apartment
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there is footage of underage people drinking alcohol, people throwing other people into the swimming pool, all night parties, the cops showing up with guns drawn, etc.
I feel a "Far Side" caption coming:
"And suddenly, the drawbacks of having every moment of your life recorded and broadcast to the world were clear"
;)
Seriously, though, good luck with finding new digs.
I feel a "Far Side" caption coming:
"And suddenly, the drawbacks of having every moment of your life recorded and broadcast to the world were clear"
;)
Seriously, though, good luck with finding new digs.
Is it that easy to evict people in the US? I thought the US had strict laws to protect tenants?
With a month-to-month lease, the landlord can ask the tenant to leave for any reason (other than discrimination) provided they give the tenant 30 days notice.
Summer YCombinator teams take note: Mass is also a right-to-rent state. If you don't have a formal, set-term lease (a verbal contract, month-to-month, or expired lease) both the tenant and landlord can call it quits with a 30 day notice with no reason required. Very handy if you ask me. If you want a formal lease you can find one but if you and the landlord are OK with a looser arrangement that is OK too.
Sounds like an opportunity to rent a large house and create a YC 'frat house' of sorts
Well, the first problem is North Beach. The last company I started worked out of a cold ass basement in Bernal Heights. That felt about right. The Mission's an even better idea.
Maybe it's time YCombo also bought some property.
Maybe the owners are disgruntled Y Rejects?
I don't quite understand why anyone would not want "free" press. The only thing I could think of is perhaps 'doing business' from the property might break a 'zoning' law of a sort.
I don't quite understand why anyone would not want "free" press. The only thing I could think of is perhaps 'doing business' from the property might break a 'zoning' law of a sort.
My guess: the owners are uncomfortable with the privacy implications of Justin.TV. After all, everyone that Justin encounters ends up being broadcast live over the Internet. Many other tenants in the YScraper may not want to end up with their mugshot on the net. This also explains why they would evict anyone who regularly comes in contact with Justin: if they're friends with Justin, then Justin is likely to come over and visit, with potentially negative privacy implications for other tenants.
You wouldn't want free press because you have your users that you like, and your business is apartments, and so you don't want any more users, so you don't want any more press. You just want peace and quiet, like you used to have, and a constant revenue stream. Not everybody is looking to take over the world.
I imagine they aren't very excited about all the press they got about people running businesses out of the building.
In that case, the smart thing to do is like that other landlord story -- offer to invest! Give them free rent in exchange for the option to also buy a small percentage of the company.
I thought it's possible to just squat and they can't do much about it?
Didn't somebody else get an eviction notice?
Someone burglarized my apartment once, so I called the cops. the neighbors had dogs, and the dogs were barking at the cops. The cops pounded on the neighbor's door and told them to shut their dogs up while their guns were drawn. My neighbors complained to the landlord, and I almost got evicted just because the cops were there, freaking out the neighbors.
Another friend of mine had a party at his girlfriend's place. A few random troublemakers showed up, started a fight, and broke the girl's door. The cops had to be called in to make sure the people didn't come back. The owner found out about this, and my friend's girlfriend was evicted a month later.
If you are renting in a somewhat decent building and the management finds out about cops being called in to your place, you are probably going to get the boot, ESPECIALLY if you are on a month to month lease, which I believe the justin.tv people are.
This may not be "right" but one side effect of justin.tv is that this is all on video, so if laws or codes are actually broken and someone doesn't like it, they can just dig up the video to argue their case...
(how do I know there were underage drinkers on justin.tv? my girlfriend is 20 and showed me the footage of herself and her friends drinking out by the pool and in the hallway.)