I work in logistics and I’m bored so I did a little math to show you why you probably won’t entice a driver at $75 unless your path and theirs align pretty closely. Delivery joints running the kind of route you’re looking for stay afloat through volume.

Let’s assume you did this run yourself with a pickup truck. You can rent them from U-Haul. Rates for RVA are $19.95+$.89/mi(200mi)+$3.10/gal(10gal)=$228.95ish for a day rental. The equipment cost of $.89/mile is a pretty average reimbursement rate to account for the maintenance cost incurred by using the car. Minus the $20 U-Haul is charging on top of that, you’re still looking at ~$200 trip without the cost of someone else’s time and labor.

Edit: actually, let’s call it ~$170 trip. I should have subtracted the cost of gas to account for the mileage rate U-Haul is charging.

Who said I had a dog?

You don’t have any friends with a truck? I was told Richmond was in the South.

Answer the question with interesting tidbit about your life’s work, get downvoted. People suck.

Mine too!

Do it again Uncle Billy!

Your dog has fantastic instincts. In a completely unrelated note, did you know that you can walk your dog at Hollywood Cemetery? The scenery is gorgeous and it’s the final resting place of wonderful people like Jeff Davis.

Yeah, that’s not going to be a good enough metric. There’s too much variability in what it costs to run a fire department versus what it costs to run a police department. There should be an itemized budget somewhere. If you look at the portion dedicated solely to salaries, that’s a good start.

Hey. Putting words in italics doesn’t make them true. Switzerland would have similar gun violence stats if access to firearms was the root cause of our problems. There are progressive policies that can fix those problems, but shredding the Constitution just a little bit ain’t one of them.

Exactly.

The time to buy in the Atlanta metro was like 20 years ago.

Username checks out.

Oh shut up already. I’m a transplant, the dude born and raised in Richmond is not.

Too late, we’re already here!

I don’t know why you’re being downvoted for being inquisitive.

Are you looking at just the portion of the budget dedicated to salary for Fire and Police, or are you looking at the entire budgets for those departments? It’s not an apples to apples comparison between the two departments.

Another Round or 2 Bar and Grill out in Manquin. It’s a bit of a hike, but it’s got a much countrier feel than it’s other namesake in Richmond.

i don’t know about here, but in NYC larger apartment buildings have a dedicated superintendent that performs maintenance in exchange for reduced or free rent. That’s easy for a large millionaire landlord to swing. Mom and pop renting out a second property obviously can’t do that. At most, they have a property management agency that acts as a middle man to hire third party companies to do maintenance like this. They can’t do that if there are no technicians available to hire because demand spiked on Christmas. At the end of the day, the landlord isn’t going to be found negligent of anything here. It’s a freak cold snap on a holiday that took out heat for many, many homes. They have an obligation to repair it within a reasonable timeline, and reasonable isn’t going to be same-day given the circumstances.

It does, you’re just too dumb to realize it.

>The landlord shall perform the duties imposed by subsection A in accordance with law; however, the landlord shall only be liable for the tenant's actual damages proximately caused by the landlord's failure to exercise ordinary care.

An extreme cold snap that spikes demand for HVAC techs on a weekend where very few HVAC techs are working ≠ demonstrate a landlord’s failure to exercise ordinary care.

You’re a university student. Research it and tell us the answer.

Circling back around to remind you that you were a 3% swing from eating a bowl of nature’s Cocoa Puffs.

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