Not sure what state you’re in, but some of those conditions are likely illegal. Might be worth getting a lawyer. I also know a few people who had asshole landlords until they said they were leaving and then they were suddenly nice when they realized they had to start looking for a new tenant.

Obviously that’s super situational and you know your landlord best.

FYI, there’s a website, downdetector, that aggregates user reports of outages for major websites and services.

If you’re in a big city, it can be a bit of the grass is greener on the other side.

I rent and have looked into buying property, but between property tax, insurance, condo fees, and interest its better to just keep your house down payment in savings in the market, and you spend less per month in rent than for a house so you can save that difference as well and let it grow / use it for a rainy day.

The main reason to own property is to have more control over your living space and avoid shitty landlords.

The way I saw it was the upside is appreciation (though the money is locked away in the property, so its very “break in case of emergency”) and its a good hedge against inflation from rent, though that would probably cause your house price to rise causing your property taxes to rise.

Forget DHS or other government agencies, these companies have been shown to be untrustworthy stewards of our data from regular hackers.

I get that discord is used to groom kids and there is a very real risk to allowing children to use it unsupervised, but that means kids devices are the ones that need to be locked down, not the rest of the world.