I don’t known, I feel like Photoshop subscription is at this point like rent in NY.
Step 1: File articles of incorporation for an LLC. Step 2: Open bank account for your new business. Step 3: Write checks to yourself from said business. Step 4: Tell future landlord that you’re “self employed.” Step 5: File dissolution of LLC -or- make sure to pay any annual franchise taxes, depending on your state, if you decide to keep it active.
oh yeah landlords love to rent to self employed people.
We do, but our verification process include researching the LLC and requiring proof of at least 2 years of business income ( 3 years preferred).
That step is unnecessary. You can call your LLC whatever you want. So all the landlord has to know is that you work for “Totally Not A Front LLC”. If they don’t do their due diligence verifying that it’s more than a one person operation, that’s on them.
I have an idea, let’s print more money and increase government spending. Surely that will decrease inflation… right?
“Delusional”, is an understatement when describing your kind that wants all kinds or free services, but complains about inflation.
You, Americans, are about to get a taste of reality soon enough. I’m watching you fall and laughing my butt off. You deserve every micro little bit of this. Keep voting for politicians that spend more money recklessly, and keep voting for more unfunded social programs, and keep exporting all industry outside of US and increasing your trade deficit, and one day your government bonds won’t be worth shit, and inflation will become hyper inflation, and all those like me will only continue laughing.
Enjoy the decline, and remember that the more you fall, the more I’m laughing in the backseat.
Now do your clown show and call me names to feel better.
I’ll send a memo to all 350 million Americans who are unanimously making these decisions to keep it up, because a random guy on the internet thinks it’s funny.
and remember that the more you fall, the more I’m laughing in the backseat.
So when the car finally crashes, you’ll be right there to die alongside the people you’re laughing at? How thoughtful!
Listen, I hate this country as well, but you just sound like an actual child
There are a lot of us here that have been fighting the status quo for decades. Our failure does not seem to merit ridicule and scorn. It’s awful living through this time.
Do you understand what the electoral college is?
PFF just use gimp
Look, I love The G.I.M.P. It allows me to recreate both 3D Studio Max, and Fractal Design: Painter into a single program. I have begged every single graphic artist and photographer in my life to switch. They all say it’s far too hard to set up and use. I wish I could help them fix this, but apparently modding anything other than a game is too complex for them. How the fuck do I manage to explain this to them‽
Idk man, fighting the good fight is hard.
It’s because they already have a good workflow for productivity. There is no point of switching to another program just for the sake of change. My workflow is just happened to be on Windows and Adobe and that’s it! I don’t care shit about these brands.
I’m tired of everyone on Lemmy keeps bashing Windows and trying to force people in to Linux. Stop trying to make people doing something unrelated to their real life. In normal people eyes, computer is no different than a toaster. Who care about all the feature and technology? If it can make good toast then that’s good enough for them.
In my eyes, Linux community is no different than a cult and church, who is trying to force everyone into joining them. And I’m getting tired of Lemmy also. It’s like 50 percent of the posts are all about Linux and bashing Windows. I was supporting the movement, but now I think it’s meaningless with this type of community. Impossible for normal user to join in. Sorry about my rant. Have a nice day, eveyone.
I use windows. I just use The GIMP because NO One else makes a graphics program that acts like FDP. Fractal Design Painter acts like traditional medium, so it’s easier for traditional artists to wrap our heads around. I only suggest it to traditional artists that hate the interface of Adobe products
i assume she also had to photoshop her w2, which is required to provide. forging government docs can’t be good… as is getting blacklisted from renting apartments. i am curious about how below she is from meeting the requirements (you need to make 40x the rent).
W-2 arguably isn’t a gov document unless and until it’s filed with the IRS.
The employee doesn’t do that, and wouldn’t file a W-2.
Is it ideal? Nope, not by a long shot. Is it an effective way for desparate people to do what they need to do? Yep.
I never had to provide my W2 to a landlord. Then again, I’m in Cali … is it that different in NYC?
5 years of pay stubs, certification to be able to rent an apartment in the state of New York, annual FBI background check, a clean history showing no travel outside of the United States in the last 10 years, no DUI, certification that you have never owned a television, license to not own a pet, 7 years of tax returns. United States birth certificate not in a red state…
It can be pretty difficult to rent an apartment in New York these days. Not to mention all the fees for above can add up to tens of thousands of dollars per year!
no travel outside of the United States in the last 10 years
Excuse me? This seems completely out of line, of course people want to travel outside the US, and I guess I’d never ever qualify… I somehow find this hard to believe.
I’m from CA and moved to the East Coast and can tell you the rental process here is insanely bad regardless of what people from here will tell you. CA has inherently less tenant protections in leases than a lot of places here, that’s a fact. your security deposit is probably less safe there. as a normal renter that has a mostly stable life and keeps a nice living area though, it’s completely useless. in fact, I prefer it.
here, both NY and MA, brokers here are not outlawed and not culturally taboo here. listen to this as a Californian and tell me how this isn’t completely criminal: in NY and MA, you usually need to find a broker. pay them ONE MONTH RENT and all they do is forward you the documents to sign and send emails to the landlord. in California, a lot of these rental practices are just non existent if not illegal. people here will tell you that brokers are great because they can just find a place for you with less work. which is just entitlement. also when you move out, you MUST let brokers show your place. that means they CHANGE YOUR LOCKS and EVERY broker will have a key and free reign to show your apartment whenever theyd like. I’d give all my tenants protections just to not deal with that.
Not only is that corrupt, but that’s fucking criminal.
oh and I got carried away with anger. East Coast is the only place I’ve had landlords require invasive proof of income. I even had a place that required me to provide a schedule of when I’d be working from home since they don’t allow people who spend too much time in the apartment to rent since utilities are covered. full time, in person employment only. in fucking sane.
Yup. I’ve always had to provide that.
You might not be prepared to take the risk, she was, and it worked. Whining about people not following the system in a rigged system is absurd.
You know the landlords are cheating the system.
Whining about people
interesting word choice. you seem defensive. but that’s a you problem.
I’m actually pretty aggressive.
Love this response lmao
They’re one and the same in the drama triangle, victim and persecutor.
I made a fake pay stub to prove I was still working with no gaps in order to get a good job. I have zero remorse.
And then you get bankrupted by the excorbitant creative cloud license costs.
Yup. Adobe may not be the ones causing the housing crisis, but all this nickel and diming from other sources is part of the problem too.
Hey Adobe, if you want people to stop pirating your shit go back to a pay-once model or lower your subscription costs. Then maybe use some of that money you’ve got to help us out over here so we can afford to pay you.
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Also: Doesn’t GIMP also do the same thing?
And this is why I switched away from .world
lemmy.world has a mental health community that used to not allow posts mentioning suicide. Yes, a mental health community. Like wtf man. They only changed the rules because I made a meme criticizing that rule.
Do what you want cause a pirate is free, you are a pirate! 🎶🎵🎶
I remember the first time I ever saw that video was when I tried playing Enter the Gungeon. I didn’t even pirate it. I just screwed up when I was installing some mods lol
It’s easier and way cheaper to rent a room in a house somewhere if you’re looking to save money since the rental market looks miserable right now.
Plus, having roommates can be great.
It can be great or terrible. Roommate roulette!
I find it easier if you have multiple roommates. Makes the conflicts less concentrated.
When I was 22 I lived in a curtained off corner of an attic in a house with 13 other people. It was so, so fun. I thought to myself, I could live this way forever! Why do older people get scammed into believing that they need to spend all their money on living alone?! I’m old now. I’ll live with a partner or live alone. I’m done with room mates.
13 people is a bit too much. I was thinking like 3. Above that, it gets too messy.
Yeah, some years back I got nostalgic about it and was watching New Girl and decided to get a room mate. Nope. Nopity nope nope nope.
Surely esteemed actress Margot Robbie doesn’t flatshare?!
… Back in the day.
You can use the same trick in job applications.
If they didn’t check themselves, they didn’t really care in the first place.
This is how I spent 8 years working as Bill Gates.
NOC operator, security technician, and sysadmin here. None of them checked until I was qualified as a matter of experience.
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Gimp or photopea will do the trick also
Or Krita.
You wanna live alone? Get gimp.
But if I had a gimp, I wouldn’t be alone. 🤔
Nonono, you have to get adobe. You want a home, you have to build it yourself! With your bare hands!
Or Abode.
They wanted to DNA test my dog and keep his biometric data on file as part of the terms of the last lease I was looking at.
I uhh, didn’t fucking sign. The neofeudalist movement is for real.
This so they can fine you when you leave your dog’s shit on the ground for other people to step in. I’m here for it. I lived in a place that did not enforce picking up after your animals and it was absolutely disgusting.
Nobody is getting dog shit DNA tested, id bet they do for bites though so the building can say they’re not liable.
I lived in a building where the super would go around and get as many complaints as he could from people who let their dogs go in the lobby. He was great, the building got rid of him because he wanted the building owners to actually keep up the amenities promised to residents.
Hate to break it to you dude
"We are the DNA dog waste management company offering a solution to pet pollution in 7,000+ communities across the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom. It isn’t just a problem in your community—it’s everywhere. "
And here I thought it was pretty common to have your children and pets DNA tested by your apartment manager. Hasn’t this always been the case?
Well, I guess I was wrong.
I did not know this was a thing
It’s also so they can charge you more money because your dog has pit bull DNA and which results in higher insurance premiums or similar bullshit.
They don’t do that at all anyway, but hey at least the professional landlord class gets to inflict upon you one more indignity for some imagined benefit.
The park adjacent to those buildings has so much dog turd in it you’d think they were purposely producing low quality fertilizer over there.
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Guess your tenants don’t have a working dishwasher and a window that’s been broken since before they moved in that is totally gonna be fixed before they move in?
That’s whataboutism.
For the record I’m not actually pro “leave your dog shit everywhere” I just question both the imposition of the indignity of subjecting your tenants to pet DNA screening, and the effectiveness of it as a mechanism for preventing that.
I actually am pro throw unbagged dog shit in a bag-containing garbage can though, and don’t really understand why anyone would care about that.
I tend to see more of the leaving it on the ground, not even the throwing it in a can.
Edit: Alright, you guys are right, you need at least 2 layers of bags for dog shit. But then I guess triples might be safer, or even quads. Fuck it, every piece of dog shit must be wrapped in at least twenty layers of plastic before it hits the landfill! We need to preserve the remains of this dog shit forever!! It’ll be our mummies!!! Inject it with formaldehyde!!!
Yeah, they do that these days to identify who lets their dogs poop around the property and don’t pick it up.
Nobody’s DNA testing dog stool. They can’t be bothered to even do routine move out cleanings in those apartments. The whole thing is a giant farcical pretendy power game played out by managers far away designing a system for the benefit of their rentier owners to simultaneously rob renters of their last scraps of dignity and every remaining dime they have in the form of bullshit fees.
We are now servicing over 6,000 communities in six countries. We are currently receiving an average of 300+ pieces of poop a day.
I’m aware that the apartment people aren’t running the DNA database themselves. They have some weirdo company that does it. I’m also aware that that weirdo company (or companies) is capable of putting together a website.
I’m saying I live in the same neighborhood (I bought a place). Nobody is going through that park and picking up the dozens of available dog stool and sending it off to some lab to be tested. They just aren’t. The whole fucking thing is a wet dream had by some awful corporate bureaucrat that only succeeds in making renters lives a little more miserable and pads the pockets of some other random, doggy DNA database building weirdo somewhere else.
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You think they have a lab in the apartment complex and they’re doing the testing themselves? 😆
You’re saying the business that the other commenter provided a link to is a “conspiracy theory”?
I’m going to briefly go on a related rant here that you can feel free to ignore.
rant
People in America have this perspective that if somehow you devise a theoretical solution to a problem (especially if it’s fancy and requires “tech” and “DNA” and labcoats) that you will magically have solved the problem. This isn’t actually the case, and it’s shown to not be the case over and over and over again in this country and everyone still seems purposely ignorant to that simple concept.
Things have unintended effects. Systems can have effectiveness issues. System costs (of all types, not just monetary) on all parties involved in the administration of those systems are often left unconsidered because it’s not part of the problem solver’s business model. Convoluted systems will not be fully understood by the agents who are supposed to implement them. Modern, technical solutions to problems are not magically better or more effective than the alternatives that are very often never even considered, simply because it wouldn’t give you a reason to strap on a lab coat, or start up a new SaSS company.
Why do you think that’s unique to AMERICA?
I dunno maybe it isn’t entirely but it’s a very pervasive attitude here.
Look at the COVID death numbers in the US versus some places that had the common sense to just use masks.
Well I don’t know what to tell you. We had a guy two months ago who was arrested because his dog was pooping on the premises and he did not clean it up.
This is a half a billion dollar a year industry.
Arrested? Lol
In my area you can’t even get anyone to care at all.
Maybe if someone’s dog pooped directly in the property manager’s mouth… Otherwise, forget it.
That sounds a lot like no one.
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You caught me, I’m complaining about DNA testing of dogs because it’s actually me sneaking out at night and pooping (not even the dog, but me). I shit out there just for you, bud.
You don’t understand, PooPrints has got your number. They ship dog poop around SIX countries, didn’t you read the site!?
It’s frustrating out there, but keep up the critical thinking fight. The ones you reach usually won’t be ones replying.
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Or…They threaten to do this and just keep your $600
It’s really the threat that motivates people, and it’s the free $600 non-refundable deposit that motivates the landlords.
Nah, no need for Adobe. Just use https://photopea.com
For whatever reason the nested comments aren’t loading but I’d think twice about uploading my bank statements or anything personal to an online photo editor.
GIMP is a good free offline alternative
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Photoshop is an Adobe product. They never said anything about Acrobat.
People downvoted you because your sarcasm is too subtle
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correction, and steal Adobe.
It might work for a small time landlord, but larger real estate agencies have other ways to check your income.
This is from my work:
I seriously have no idea how people are getting away with lying on the app. More power to em I guess
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Bruh, I had one property, and I still did more thorough work than this. The credit unions offer it as a service. It’s like 0 work to do. These people, lol.
My company uses that too. You need to earn five times the salary that we offer for a new hire in order to apply for a job here.
So if you can check… why ask in the first place
