As a Florida native and resident of 30 years, IMHO, that's the only good thing about Florida 😏

Saw off the state and let it float away, Bugs!

>I guess, but everyone knows they owe taxes.

Yeah, I knew I owed taxes and was already paying several new taxes I didn't have in Florida. But nobody gave me a guidebook for "first time Virginia residents" telling me I had to make sure all the different agencies did their jobs and set up my account in their systems so they could bill me.

I certainly didn't think I'd be owing Richmond City taxes on a new car I purchased (and already paid Florida sales tax) five months before moving here.

ETA: I did try telling the city they're at fault for not getting the records from the DMV, despite me registering for utilities and voting in the city 3 months after I moved here in 2012. They didn't care and literally said this was on me.

This is going to suck, OP, but that's the only way to do this. Stop trying to make it convenient for yourself and go in person because, as far as the City is concerned, you're responsible for paying those taxes.

You'll probably get multiple tax bills at the same time since they'll want back taxes; see my comments elsewhere in this thread since it happened to me 😒

I wish someone gave me that advice the first year I moved to Richmond because it would have saved me a lot of unnecessary frustration years later.

Oh! And when I moved to Henrico in 2016 and updated my registration, Henrico was on the ball and had me on record within weeks of moving here.

Richmond, on the other hand, continued to bill my leased car originally signed when I lived in Richmond, for two years after I returned it to the dealer. Then, because Kia Financing refused to pay taxes for a car I didn't have (and didn't notify me since that account was closed), and they probably sold to someone else, Richmond found my Henrico address and sent me collections notices for two years of back taxes... for a car I didn't have.

Took over six months to get them to finally knock it off and cancel the collections agency's account for me. I had to send them multiple copies of me returning the car to the Kia dealer and that I had been living in Henrico (and had that and my new car registered there) the entire time they were trying to collect taxes. 🤬

It happens more often than you think.

It happened to me when I moved here from Florida 11 years ago. I got my VA Driver's License, registered my car, registered to vote, got my utilities set up, and thought that was all I had to do. Three years later, I heard coworkers talking about their personal property taxes for their car and I went "whaaat, I haven't gotten any bills, is this for anyone who has a car here in Virginia?"

So, being the honest person I was, I tried contacting Richmond City's tax department over a few weeks and would only get the answering machine. Left voicemails, sent two emails, and nothing. Then a few months later, I get three year's worth of personal property tax bills on the same day... all due upon receipt. I couldn't afford the $2950 they were asking for (for a three year-old car) and could only pay one of the three bills at the time, so of course the other two went to collections until I could pay them over the next few months 😑

Shame on me for not doing their job, I guess.

Yep, now is the time where I have to mow the yard with a KN95 or else I’m a wreck for 2-3 days after 😷>🤧

Happy birthday!

>please see note about not posting douchey comments, thanks!

You should probably take your own advice, read the room, and realize this is not how you make friends here.

This type of nonsense will keep you in our moderation queue far longer until you get more subreddit karma and we might just get tired of dealing with you altogether.

If you're a Henrico resident, Henricopolis Soil & Water Conservation team does annual free sapling giveaways of Virginia-native flowering and fruit-bearing trees! All you have to do is show up, show them your ID, and pick out 3-5 saplings to bring home.

They usually hold this in late March or April. I haven't seen an announcement yet on their Facebook page, so I'm guessing this year's giveaway event will be announced soon.

Giant parking lots without curbs separating lanes = bumper car derby!

It is, if that's what it was, but it wasn't. Bleach and ammonia make chloramine gas, not mustard gas; the latter requires additional components that I won't list here.

Chloramine gas is still dangerous until it's dealt with and the space is fully ventilated, but not to the power and severity and immediate danger that mustard gas has.

That said, again, as a PSA to everyone: do not mix bleach with anything else other than water.

I appreciate you seeing what you can do to help your neighbor and get them the right type of support they need. The world needs more people like you, OP!

Hazmat could be there simply because someone accidentally mixed bleach with ammonia (like what happened at Union Market last year) or something else. They're just the crew that has the appropriate protective gear and experience to go in and deal with it and make sure the building is safe for people to go back into.

If it wasn't on the news and didn't break out into social media, chances are it wasn't anything significant.

My then-fiancée and I went to Schwarzschild Jewelers in Carytown. Told them we were just needing to get our fingers sized and gave them $5 for the few minutes we were there. They didn't try to sell us anything or talk us into anything else and were happy to help.

Then we bought our cheap wedding bands on Amazon. Have a few each to ourselves and swap them out depending on what we're wearing and what we're doing. Trust me, it's just easier that way not getting hung up on an expensive band and what happens if it's lost, misplaced, or stolen.

Got a nice titanium one for myself with our wedding date engraved on the inside for $14 and it's held up pretty well over the past 5 years. Also have a few silicone rings for when I'm doing yardwork or camping or anything else where it could get snagged on something.

Indeed. I keep this in mind whenever I have a negative (but perfectly reasonable) experience with a restaurant before thinking for a second at how stressful it often is owning and running, let alone working in, a restaurant, and then withdrawing my complaint or closing out of the screen before posting it.

Yes, they usually put their vehicle with flashing lights, cones, or flares up behind them as a buffer between them and the sign or whatever it is they're working on.

That sucks.

I don't believe landlords can arbitrarily remove a tenant's things that aren't explicitly restricted in the lease or tenants guide, but I guess that wouldn't stop them from trying.

Chances are, one of the other tenants have been complaining incessantly about something they don't like and the PM/landlord is overreacting.

This reads like an episode from the Dear Bastard! podcast—a humorous (and potentially triggering) podcast for anyone who's gotten stuck in the CC/reply all pattern of an unnecessarily-bureaucratic email thread about nothing.

Yes, but think about the context of that advice and where it's coming from: The CDC—a government agency in this case—is being as broadly cautious as possible with that guidance because they know people will ignore it. They're also talking about an ingredient, regardless of its quantity in a given product. They aren't going to provide ratio-specific advice for every application.

24 hours, though, is really overkill; we're not in a rainforest where it takes forever for things to adequately dry out or move deeper into the soil.

Herbicides are typically fine for pets and bare skin—unless someone is highly allergic to it—once it dries or once it rains to get the stuff into the soil and off the blades/leaves.

Example: You (the royal you, as in anyone reading this) buy a hammock and it says "max weight is 250 lbs.," but you might weigh 275 lbs. and think "it's fine, it won't break for being an extra 25 lbs. over." Good news: you're probably right and it will be fine.

The "250 lbs. max weight," according to the manufacturer, is more for their protection against a consumer frivolously suing them because a hammock broke at some point after it's been used. In reality, though, a hammock can typically safely hold a lot more than they say they can because us humans tend to easily put on more weight when we're not paying attention to such things. I've seen two people frequently use a hammock that was, by the label, only designed to be used by one person at a time.

Edit: a word

Classic Kevin Malone!

Evict? Probably not.

Refuse to renew a lease or extend an existing lease? Almost certainly.

Read the article?

That’s weird. I didn’t know brooms could only be used by white folk or were geo-locked by the Ministry of Cleanliness upon entering certain areas, like rented scooters get temporarily disabled, and their bristles just up and vanish when they’re taken into those areas.

Also, if new-to-the-area Black folk move into these gentrified areas and buy homes (which does happen), do you include them in that weird pejorative nickname in quotes?

What is it that these gentrifiers deserve? Dirty streets where brooms don’t work and people lose all drive to keep things nice?

NP! I edited my original comment to include the address since it's oddly difficult to find on the RVA.gov website

From this post a few days ago:

>The quickest way is to go to their office on 25th St, not city hall. 25th St has a parking lot and a very nice lady there that can help you. I asked her how many people come in there per day because I expected it to be a shit show, and she said they get maybe 15 people a day, because everyone assumes you have to go to city hall.

Oddly, that location says it's closed on Apple Maps, but u/I_Got_A_Truck said it was open as of a few days ago.

ETA: The address I found for that location is 701 N 25th St., Richmond, VA 23223