My next door neighbor is back from Michigan. This is the guy that started building a new house earlier this year and then - left the property in a shambles and it has been that way for some 8 months now. For whatever reason as yet to be acquired, the City of Phoenix did nothing about it, even though people filed formal complaints against the property.
Whatever the case, I don't speak to him anymore because of the cat blowup of last year. He thinks it's stupid and ridiculous that I should demand him keep his cats off my property or pay up for the damages incurred. Someone's grey cat basically lives on the front of my property and that cat is going to get caught and be relocated to a new home - at least 15 miles away.
However, Mark was out there talking to him and found out that 350 man is still encroaching some 24 inches into Randy's property (the next door neighbor from Michigan). 350 man built a fence - he was forced to finish it I do believe, I don't really know as I don't much look over there anymore as his property is also a piece of s***. So, Randy is suing 350 man and of course if it's true that the property lines have been crossed, there IS no defense for that. 350 man will have to remove that fence. Randy refuses to accept a cash payout for the property that is encroached.
I wouldn't accept, either. First because Randy's property is so small. MUCH smaller than mine. Second because it's 350 man involved, the guy is a moron. I wouldn't give him a cut piece of grass from my property, much less a portion of my property.
Now it also comes to light that Randy hasn't been paying his property taxes. This is a big problem. There are companies that do nothing but pay up property taxes on delinquent parcels and after 3 years of making payments? They can take the property away from it's owner. I personally think it's heinous that this is allowable, for a few thousand dollars you can get a property worth whatever- hundreds of thousands. I understand the city needs the revenues from the property taxes, but to take away someone's property and give it to someone else at a very minuscule fraction of it's worth is a travesty of justice as far as I'm concerned.
I am a proponent of doing away with property taxes altogether and making up for it in sales taxes. Or at the very least reform the law so that a person isn't going to lose their home because for whatever reason they couldn't afford to pay the property taxes.
Whatever the case, apparently 350 man had intentions of going down and paying up Randy's taxes and attempting to acquire the property for himself. That would make 3 properties this pig would own - all of them in a shambles, none of them having any kind of landscaping on them to make them look good. Just what I need, 350 man owning the property right next door to me. What does he want with all of these properties, anyway? Hey, if the guy wants to pay off my mortgage I'll be happy to get the bleep out of this sh**** neighborhood and wash my hands of it forever.
If his mother is that rich, let him buy up the entire street and he can live here all alone.
On another note, I found out what my yearly bonus is going to be. Highly disappointing, to say the least. A 2 man crew that has worked our @$$es off for an entire year. A store that has done so much sales with such high gross profit that it gained national attention from upper management. A year of some fairly unpleasant moments because the workload was so great and the 2 of us trying to keep up with all of it, we sometimes got on each other's nerves. We eventually worked that out, but the point is: we fully expected a bonus that reflected that hard, intense work. What I am getting I consider almost insulting considering the above mentioned facts. I know what the bonus pool is for our region and the amount of people that are eligible for a portion of that pool. If I divide the pool by the number of people eligible, I am not even getting a equal amount. Not that that ever happens anyway. One assumes management will get a much larger share than anyone else. But that's the point. Our efforts should have been reflected in the amount of the bonus, it definitely was not.
I have no recourse. It is what it is. My pay for last fiscal year was up a large chunk of change, but that was because of having my 8 hours restored and doing overtime on top of that. Come to find out that more hours worked and amount of money made - the more you get during the work year, apparently, the less you qualify for in the bonus pool. That really makes a lot of sense, work twice as hard and get less percentage of pool money because of it?
I will eventually get over it, I am sure, as again, what am I supposed to do? I could complain and I am sure that will get me nowhere. It just makes me wonder why they did not consider our efforts worth a much healthier take of the pool than what we got.
Well, I am headed outside. It's somewhere in the 80's out there right now. I am doing the Miracle Gro application on the entire property. I intend on soaking the plants with the stuff as well as getting it into the ground.
With that, I bid you......
G'day.
ben
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