An L.A. peculiarity
The responses to Joseph’s refrigerator post yesterday surprised me. Maybe things really have changed that much, but I, too, thought BYOF was common knowledge.I looked back at three books I purchased before my move to L.A. Two of them mention it and, indeed, when I arrived here, none of the apartments I toured included refrigerators; I ended up renting one at $30/month.
From Newcomer's Handbook for Los Angeles:
Be aware, often apartments in Los Angeles do not come with refrigerators, and you may need to buy or rent your own. Some landlords offer rentals on refrigerators they have in the building. Image
From Moving to Los Angeles:
An L.A. peculiarity: Many apartments don’t come with stove and refrigerator (“S” and “R” in classified ad lingo), so ask. Image
By the way, renting a refrigerator never really bothered me. It was brand new, and it sure beat coughing up a 15% “broker fee” to a phantom broker in New York City. Does that still go on?
Labels: refrigerators, rental market
Posted by solomon @ 8/09/2007 05:46:00 PM
16 Comments:
Not again. You're just hoping to stir up the Hoboken hobo who goes nuts in defense of that city. And its big old fridges. Sigh.
FRIDGIN DIALOG, PART II
If people are genuinely so worried about fridges and stoves, maybe you should turn this into the Recycler, let people sell each other old stuff and make a few bucks.
This issue requires five years of research!
(Some douchebag said so yesterday.)
Three years should be enough.
Be careful. Someone said yesterday that this isn't supposed to be a topic for a serious dissertation, and someone jumped all over his case. So I think it must be a PhD topic after all. Maybe the person was just trying to deflect attention from it, so that no one would steal his topic.
Wanna hear a secret?
The real reason there's no fridge is because y'all are too darned fat when ya move here and it's a passive agressive attempt to get you to lose a few.
Aww... can't take a joke? Lighten up.
lugging around a fridge oughta be good exercise, then.
HEY "SUE-WEEE",
You can't get away without a "CRACKBACK" after you posted on Zuma's thread, how much you miss your "LATINA HOUSEKEEPER" who made those fine "HI-CAL" Burritos. Just maybe your real name is Monica ?
This issue requires five years of research!
(Some douchebag said so yesterday.)
I think the guy said one year. But I wouldn't trust ZD and his crack reporting with anything less than 20 substantiated sources for anything they are calling "news."
...
Just checked the comment. The douchebag said one year. I personally don't think these numbnuts could pull it off with less than 2.
Mayor Sam,
How about stepping into the limelight and requiring registration for these heathens?
You've already made a dent in the local psyche.
Own it.
Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen (removes hat and bows low with flourish):
(Sighs) Ah, the luxury of a fridge...when one lives aboard one must may do with dry ice in the ice box, savvy? But let's talk about something else, shall we?
Back in the day, when one rented a flat one usually had the utils thrown in gratis. And the gratis utils flats were usually in the shabby yet chic parts of town. Of course they included a fridge...for the lure of a/c alone just isn't enough to tempt even the most hardy of urban pioneers to take up residence, if you will, in said gratis utils flat, savvy?
But in between then and now, things have changed rather radically. Landlords squeeze as much as they can out of their rent and do not re-invest in such things as, say, a new fridge for the the apartment or a new stove. Now I can appreciate the part about the stove since the rates for electric service have gone up sharply (and we all know why). However, if you will, actually offering a prospective tenant niceties such as a fridge (as opposed to an icebox) does give the impression that at the very least you have actually LIVED in a civilised society yourself. And of course that is a myth that you want to perpetuate since many a landlord's rental dollars have found their way into certain political campaign accounts, savvy?
Speaking of renting, I wonder if the apartment that a certain Mayor is currently renting rents with a fridge. (Smiles) Of course it does, because the man needs a place to chill the wine before he takes it on a date, savvy?
Oh bugger, I'm running low on ice for the icebox and I've no more rum. I think I shall take myself over to Navy Street and bum some off one of the crew. (Picks up phone and calls the rudderman) Halloo? Jack here. I seem to have run out of the two things that man cannot do without. Have you any to spare? Brilliant! I'll be right over. (Puts down phone)
Sorry sots, but ice and rum trump Monica Whats-Her-Name with the broad back and thunder thighs, savvy?
The whiners who complain about renting fridges are just the type of riff raff that this city needs less of.
And Captain Jack, it would be much appreciated if you would make your point in 3 grafs or less.
10:39 has no sense of humor or irony, and is therefore, the Hoboken/ Astoria/"tunnel people"-promoting person from the first fridge blog.
Amazed he held out this long to pipe up...
But Captain Jack, who are so right that the cost of utilities is prohibitively high even for our most esteemed citizens.
Per tomorrow's L A Times, our very own chief enforcer of the law and his bumper-car wife, couldn't pay their DWP bills, either, and had their power cut off. AFTER running up an exhorbitant bill, because people of substance need very big fridges and lots of stuff...
10:39 is an old drag bag. She went cruising in West Hollywood, got laid and turned in to 1:27
Red Spot, it wasn't a housekeeper, it was an illegal burrito lady in a blue minivan
And I miss her
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