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    Rent Nightmare

    Im taking the high road and let you live with your crazy illusions. Without finding out the facts or the correct situations only a fool would go on and on like you have.
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    Rent Nightmare

    Davidglen, Ive only been nice to you in all my previous posts, but all you have done is accuse and condemn me from being a bad parent to being a bad neighbor to even saying that Im raising tomorrow's sociopaths. All this on mere assumptions. I refuse to get sucked into this and will only say...
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    Rent Nightmare

    ok all I wanted was advise and recommendations of anyone who would know better how to deal with my situation with the landlord and how he is putting the previous damages on me, which is less then the lawyer fee but a simple matter of principle, and not doing anything about fixing the heater...
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    Rent Nightmare

    thank you for saying that about kids, Ive been trying to say that nicely since yesterday. about the pictures we now regret, that we didn't think of doing that when we rented the house and showed the owner the damages that were already there and missed some but he said that he knows and a little...
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    Rent Nightmare

    I live in Recoleta. And yes im not defending that I have pin drop silence in my house but yes we (me & kids) try very hard that there are no complaints, but if they even pull up a chair to sit on the table or walk about in the house, someone comes knocking!
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    Rent Nightmare

    I confronted him about the bed after telling agency over the phone the first week, and my husband's subsequent email to both the parties but to that he turned back to me and said that probably your kids jumped and it broke. That burnt me real bad, considering in the previous house the beds were...
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    Rent Nightmare

    Thanks may fellow expats for the kind words and valuable advise!. Yes lesson learnt, we regret the moment we signed that contract. It is a temporary rental we rented, but I have no idea about the different catagories of rent here, but my mention of lightbulbs were solely due to the reason that...
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    Rent Nightmare

    As I mentioned in my post we had no trouble with my previous house where I took it for temporary rent 6 months and kept renewing contract the next 2 times each every three months so together 9 months and it went perfectly well and no complains no trouble about the kids, furniture or appliances...
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    Rent Nightmare

    Hi, We moved into an apartment in Recoleta 4months ago. We found it on Mercadolibre with agents. Problem is that when we came to sign a contract my husband wanted to check everything and discuss all but the agents kept rushing us saying that they are getting late for a meeting,they even gave...
  10. J

    Ba Expats Bold World Cup Predictions

    so so so very sad ... GREAT GAME and I think they were equally good through out this match!
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    Help Urgently Needed: Forum Expat Gone Nuts In My Apartment

    I thought it was a joke too :mellow:
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    Have You Experienced Prejudice Or Racism In Argentina?

    This topic is so interesting I had to read it from the top, and got some interesting understanding of how different culture and race see others. Having said that here is my two bits in ... my love for travel has taken us to different countries and seen different level of discrimination and in...
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    Bodies Of American Climbers Found In Argentina

    Mount K2 is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest. Pakistan has very few things to take pride in, you cant that that away from it too! :(
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    Domestic Help How Much Is Right?

    I have checked that Option too, and it makes more sense since they do say that they do all the background check and stuff not that I had any bad experience with the ladies who did work for me part time, except no matter how much increase I put in the amount I pay them, they still end up telling...
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    Domestic Help How Much Is Right?

    Thank you guys, Bajo_cero2, specially thanks to you, I did need that confirmation regarding govt. rules. John. St, I don't fully yet understand a lot in Argentina, but I'm learning through experience! Etoile thanks! Irelander, I am informed by my friend to pay 130 a month and that's good...
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    Domestic Help How Much Is Right?

    its just so confusing that when you go out to find domestic help you hear different figures and sometimes they are so low you feel like you are cheating them and sometimes so high that you feel like you are being ripped. I have been looking for domestic help for hours or on monthly payroll but...
  17. J

    Me Quiero Ir

    id hand you the best advise i received .... take one day at a time. and yes making friends is a good idea ... or start catching up on some good old movies that you haven't watched or would love to watch again that is until you find back your peace ... it does get frustrating :( so you are not alone
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    Summer And Power Outages,how Well Prepared Are We?

    Ok I wish I could explain it more technically, which I will ask my husband tomorrow and explain further but the UPS for the apartment runs fan, lights and smaller appliances like charging a cell phone but no fridge or tv. However in Dominican I have used it for tv for an hour or so as well which...
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    Summer And Power Outages,how Well Prepared Are We?

    cant say for big houses but for smaller apartments I have seen they use UPS in Dominican Republic its very convenient specially for houses with kids ... I haven't seen those here or am I missing something?
  20. J

    Witnessed A Robbery...

    I think what he was trying to say is that they choose from the crowd most easiest target. you may have been careful most of the time but probably that day in particular you were not all that careful and unfortunately that was the day this person stole from you.
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