To be clear, yes, the towing company is required to release the vehicle upon request of the owner in such circumstances, BUT the law allows the towing company to charge a decoupling fee, meaning a fee to unhook your vehicle.

You might want to look into the financial troubles it is having. I'm not trying to be overdramatic, but at present, there is at least some question about its continued, long-term existence.

Exactly.

The food used to be so good, you could overlook the service issues they always had.

But, post-COVID, the service got much, much worse and the food quality/consistency dropped, which caused me, and obviously a lot of others, to cross it off of their list.

Additionally, in my opinion, LH was an owner-driven place, and once the owners shifted attention to their shiny new toy in JSQ, things at LH suffered, as is often the case in such situations.

Come to think of it, I notice there was no mention of Emma's in the LH farewell post.

Yeah, JC absolutely needs a proper wine bar. If you've ever been to one, you don't really need an articulated definition, you just know there's nothing like that in town right now.

In my experience, the closest we currently have is the bar connected to Satis, but since it is part of a restaurant, it closes way too early.

The first few years of Thrid & Vine were great, but things dropped off a cliff seemingly overnight and its eventual closure was more merciful than disappointing.

The news blackout on this story is really, really odd.

IF (emphasized in capital letters) the general reports about what happened are true - meaning that the person who rammed the building was in his own vehicle with his own family/friends as passengers - then it is incredibly difficult to believe that the perpetrator has not yet been caught.

Yes, the driver got out and fled on foot, but the car and the passengers remained at the scene, and some passengers were taken to the hospital, so one would think there would be no difficulty in identifying the driver.

If the driver didn't know the occupants of the car, then you'd think the manhunt would be even more intense and publicized since his actions would rise to carjacking and injuring children in the car.

You'd also think the city would place a high priority on capturing the perpetrator, and publicizing that capture, in order to deflect any negative imications of the failure of 911 to pick up.

So there is a lot about this that is rather confounding.

Fair enough, although I think the fact that anyone (not you in particular) has a non-sarcastic conversation about whether $35 is a comparatively good price for a non-pallet sized amount of potato chips in this area lends itself to my point.

I love this subreddit.

Mere hours before we got this latest installment in the recurring "my rent increase was totally unfair and unsustainable" theme, a bunch of people on another post were trying to explain why a $35 can of potato chips at Hudson Greene Market was totally reasonable.

For some reason, I feel like watching Annie Hall again.

You just keep proving my point. Thank you.

You are the perfect example of my point - insisting that nothing more than posting bitchy comments on-line can be done based on something you think you remember hearing at some point in the past.

If you, or any of the people who regularly complain about her on this forum actually cared, you'd expend even the slightest effort to learn what, how and when you could do something more than snark at her on Reddit.

Which she will ignore, again.

Which will elicit vows to recall her, again.

Which will result in zero tangible, organized action, again.

Which will spur the activists to call for her resignation, again.

Repeat ad nauseam.

For whatever it is worth to the OP, the $250k number cited above is completely inaccurate. While there may have been recent assessments, and there may be assessments levied in the near future, nothing close to that number has ever been assessed or is being contemplated. It is a totally unfeasible number. Think about it - how many unit owners could even come close to affording that? And an assessment that no one can pay is worthless.

There are two types of fees/assessments at Pt Lib. One is for the individual condo association in which your unit is located, and the other is for the overall HOA that governs all three condos that make up Pt Lib.

Agents and realtors can tell you anything because the standard NJ real estate contract says you are not relying on anything they say.

Sellers can slip around being candid by (accurately) saying they have not been officially notified of any specific upcoming assessment even though anyone in the community who keeps even slightly aware of the governance issues knows what seems likely to be coming.

Make sure you have a lawyer who knows what to ask for in due diligence and what to ask the seller.

You're welcome. They can't do that unless you actively broke the appliance. I will say that even though the law is on your side, you might want to think about whether it is worth it to you to have to go to court to fight over getting back the cost of a microwave, etc. A lot of shady landlords withhold money from the security deposit that they know they shouldn't, but keep just enough so that fighting for it isn't worth your time.

There is nothing illegal about any of these clauses, so if the Landlord can find someone willing to sign those terms, they will be enforceable. Your recourse is to try to negotiate for their removal or find another place to rent.

As for the specific clauses:

The Repair Clause is uncommon, because the cost of such repairs is a write off for the landlord and they usually pay for this stuff out of pocket so it is reflected in their taxes and then they increase the rent the next year to recoup their costs from the previous year. If you really love the apartment, then I suppose you can live with it, but only if you plan on staying more than a year. Otherwise, you're paying for repairs they should be making and leaving before they would have a chance to recoup in increased rent.

The Appliance Clause is outrageous. Absent your actively breaking appliances through negligent or intentional actions, these are the landlord's responsibility (damage due to normal wear and tear can't even be taken from your security deposit). If you can't take the appliances with you when you move out, you should not pay to replace them due to normal wear and tear. If you really love the apartment, you could guard against this by conducting a video inspection before move out to document that all appliances are working, but if they break before you move out, that won't help.

The Move In/Out Fees Clause is very common, almost universal in condos. You generally can't avoid this by bringing things in piecemeal, because the condo needs to know when your first day will be and will charge the fee automatically because damages can occur even if you're just carrying boxes, TVs, etc.

Bottom line - if you don't absolutely need this apartment, these lease terms probably aren't worth it.

They are great people and know how to treat people as a small, neighborhood business.

Your original response inaccurately makes it seem like there are on average 12 such cardiac football deaths per year, and when a lowly layperson has the temerity to point that out, you quote a portion of your cited study in what my limited capacity can only assume was an attempt to prove me wrong. And, while I surely can't possibly understand the intricacies of statistical analysis, I am able, with the aid of a calculator a trusted adult let me borrow, to figure out that 41.2% of 12 is less than 6.

You also unequivocally asserted that the poster was factually incorrect when he said he felt like there were more such deaths in the past year, but cited only to statistics from 3+ years ago. To an intellectually inferior non-scientist, that evidence doesn't actually have any weight since it doesn't include the relevant time period.

You are obviously (in the sense that you keep saying it) a person of superior intelligence, which makes a lesser person like myself wonder why your responses are so full of anger and insults and so lacking in accurate substance or even complete comprehension of the points I've made.

I'll just go back to my tv so I can misapprehend some other story that I see.

That is a wonderful-looking response, full of plenty of statistics that we'll just assume are accurate because you wrote them.

It is not at all, however, a response to the point I made, which was that while all of the sources you would deem to be legitimate told us that we needed to take the vaccine because it would stop transmission, they knew that ZERO studies had been done about preventing transmission.

After the big pharma companies expressly admitted that a few months ago, your hallowed sources changed their narratives in a manner that would make Orwell proud and started acting as if they'd focused solely on reducing severity/death from the beginning.

Even ignorant, conspiratorial fools have memories of the mantras about our duty to others that were incessantly repeated throughout 2021.

I know it sucks when you can't intimidate or embarrass the great unwashed into accepting your smugly superior take on things, so I'll just slip back into the primordial ooze from whence I came and leave you be.

The "legitimate scientists" and the "legitimate government officuals" and the "legitimate media" all told us the vaccine prevented infection and transmission, and then insisted that every person owed their fellow citizens a duty to get vaccinated to stop the spread.

18 months later, these same "legitimate" sources acknowledged that the vaccine manufacturers never included the prevention of infection/transmission in any of their studies so there was zero data to support any of those claims.

But, yes, do keep telling us about how ignorant, foolish and/or conspiratorial anyone who questions what they are told by any source, including your multiple, unsupported opinions above, must be.

You attack the poster's comment that it "seems like there are a lot of young, seemingly healthy, men who have collapsed and died in the past year" as being "factually false" by:

1. Proclaiming (without citation) a statistic that works out to nearly 2000 such young people dying per year (which could certainly seem high to some people);

2. Admitting that your unsupported statistic is from pre-COVID times, and thus leaving unanswered the question of whether a greater or lesser number of such young people have been similarly dying over the past year, as was the point of the poster's comment.

Then, as a cherry on top, you put forth another statistic about deaths caused by football collisions each year, although the study to which you cite includes all types of deaths and not only heart attacks, meaning that the number 12 that you parrot is misleadingly high when compared to the point of the poster's comment.

How lucky for us commoners that you are here to educate us on "the facts".

It's being downvoted for the same reason that discussion about the Bills player who had a heart attack on the field on Monday night is limited to one, and only one, possible cause (a 1 in 200 million chance of getting hit at a very particular microsecond of the heartbeat). Even the mere act of wondering about potential causes of what appears to be an increase in the number of seemingly healthy, young people who are suffering heart attacks results in one being ostracized as a right wing conspiracy theorist. Just accept the company line and don't ask any questions.

Never called it fake, but you seem to interpret everything in a way that serves your evident bias.

Hard to find a more objective source than allegations in a plaintiff's complaint, especially those particular allegations that make conclusory characterizations about an e-mail that does not, on its face, prove what the plaintiff is claiming.

Nobody is denying that his wife is one of the members in the LLC that bought the commercial space and is the landlord for the dispensary.

Assuming this screenshot is even real, there are a hundred reasons he could have asked those questions, all of which having to do with getting a quick answer for his wife, as a landlord who likely has a lease contingent upon, or a MOU to enter a lease contingent upon, approval of the dispensary.

Feel free to look at the dispensary's license application, which is available on-line, and search for an ownership interest Fulop or his wife have in the dispensary. Spoiler alert - there isn't one.

I haven't experienced the same issues with late trains, but I'll agree there are times - mostly before 2 am - where the trains have been packed.

The late-night frequency is presumably based on usage, so perhaps the Path should reevaluate those hours.

To be fair to the Path, the times I've been on it post 3 am, it's been pretty empty and I can't blame them for running fewer trains.

A lot of cities shut the trains down late night, so I'm happy we have 24 hour service.