Rental House Pics 28 April 2014

[Tubular Monkey]

He'd be Donald Sterling with autism.

 

[Da Pickle Monsta]

I believe that some lottery winners have opted for anonymity. If I'd won a lottery, I certainly would pursue that option, along with the yearly payouts instead of the lump sum. I'd much prefer a lottery tugboat.

 

[Christ-Chan]

Well, he'd want to save it all. He'd insist that the firemen and all the people handling his insurance case rescue all his crap for him.

No, yeah, I know, I meant that Sonichu has a pretty marginalized role in Chris' life compared to video games, Lego and My Little Pony.

 

[DykesDykesChina]

What is that in the upper window?

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Totem II: Way Past Nightmare

 

[Artard]

Do you have the option to remain anonymous in the US? Over here, they won't even announce where the ticket was bought if the winner doesn't want them to. Of course there's no way Chris would be able to resist declaring his victory and wearing the ultimate smug face.

There are multiple lotteries here (they're run on the state level, though sometimes multiple states share a lottery), but a quick search shows only a small handful allow winners to remain anonymous. OT but that's how we know that the son of one of the longest-tenured mobsters in America, Tony Accardo, won the lottery.

 

[qld]

Chris wouldn't understand how the lottery works anyway.

You don't just get the $700,000,000 Jackpot, or what have you.

You get it in yearly installments of something like $10,000.

Well, top of my head, record jackpots have been like 300 million. More usual ones are around 75. Knock off a quarter to a third to taxes, take the less sizeable cash option, you could still come out with 20 million. That would be enough to land Chris on an E! True Story episode about lottery winners that met with misfortune. You know it would not turn out well. But I'm pretty sure he would lose the tugboat. Now Chris, would you like 20 million in cash, or a lifetime of monthly $768 payments?

There are multiple lotteries here (they're run on the state level, though sometimes multiple states share a lottery), but a quick search shows only a small handful allow winners to remain anonymous. OT but that's how we know that the son of one of the longest-tenured mobsters in America, Tony Accardo, won the lottery.

Here in Indiana, they post the winners of anything above $600. You can search people's names or look at all the winners in a particular town online since 2005. If it was a life-changing amount, I'd have to take the money, do the obligatory publicity shot or write-up (I think there's a clause here about using winners for promotional material) and disappear. I know the riverboats here take pictures of some of the winners and post them at the entrance. My friend won $2,000 and the bums literally came crawling out of the slots, apparently expecting a round of drinks to be bought. Didn't happen.

Hello all, I shall chime in with some (perhaps) words of wisdom regarding lawn care of rental houses. Growing up my family has owned rental properties down here in Texas and in the past it has been our (the owner's) responsibility to make sure the lawns were mowed and taken care of. Friends of mine who have owned their own rental property also had such arrangements where they, as the owner, were responsible for managing the yard. Now things may be different in how it's handled up in the north east, but I just wanted to throw out there that it may not be entirely Chandler fault for the exterior conditions of the rental house.

It should have been established at the beginning as to who is responsible for lawn care. True, the landlord could have said they would be responsible and just haven't mowed it, but I doubt that. If they claim responsibility, they're usually on it. But it is also that time of year where conditions have been wet, cold, unsuitable for mowing, growth has been quick, mowers haven't been pulled out yet, so maybe they just caught the lawn at an off time.
But if Barb and Chris are handicapped, then shouldn't the insurance company have provided them with maintenance free housing? Hell, they didn't mow their own yard, and probably couldn't afford it. What does anyone expect from them now, especially after the trauma!?

 

[Da Pickle Monsta]

It should have been established at the beginning as to who is responsible for lawn care. True, the landlord could have said they would be responsible and just haven't mowed it, but I doubt that. If they claim responsibility, they're usually on it. But it is also that time of year where conditions have been wet, cold, unsuitable for mowing, growth has been quick, mowers haven't been pulled out yet, so maybe they just caught the lawn at an off time.
But if Barb and Chris are handicapped, then shouldn't the insurance company have provided them with maintenance free housing? Hell, they didn't mow their own yard, and probably couldn't afford it. What does anyone expect from them now, especially after the trauma!?

Chris's disability doesn't preclude him from mowing the lawn--at least, that's the way the insurance company would look at it. I'm assuming that they probably were looking for the most cost-effective housing solution for Chris and Barb and figured that they'd be able to live up to their end of a rental agreement. I'm certain that there's a mower somewhere in the greenhouse, or the Chandlers could have scraped off ten bucks and gotten a neighborhood kid to do it.

In all truthfulness, the only thing that's keeping Chris from mowing the lawn is Chris.

 

[Tubular Monkey]

using $100 bills as TP

So you think he'd start using TP? I think he'd stick (literally) to those cotton diapers we call briefs.

 

[Holdek]

Jack Whittaker is kind of the apex of lottery winner horror porn.

This is a very long but exceptional piece about everything that happened afterward.

Can you give me the TL; DR version?

 

[Artard]

Can you give me the TL; DR version?

West Virginian. Already a millionaire. Wins $300+ million PowerBall. Devolves into brutal tyrant that enjoys humiliating people for money. Wife of 40 years can't stand it anymore and divorces him. Granddaughter given $5k a day in cash, 4 cars and develops massive drug addiction, overdoses and dies. Multiple other people around him die and/or are ruined by proximity to PowerBall fortune.

True story: a few years after that was published, he bought another ticket (why?) and nearly won AGAIN. He matched 4 out of 5 numbers and won $10k.

 

[Sweet and Savoury]

Its better to be lucky then to be smart.

Of course its best to be both

 

[A-№1]

There are more pics I hesitate to leak because I don't want weens to figure out his new address and bother him. Even the Chandlers deserve some standard of privacy.

Also we have to remember this is a rented home. Regardless of what Chris and Barb deserve, their landlord certainly doesn't deserve the attention of the weens.

I thought his address got leaked already? or did the mods clean that up? Is there a way to post it without revealing sensitive info?

Chris' current address has been known for a while now, but has been withheld from publication for reasons like that above.

Depends on the house itself. If they let the house fall into such disrepair and turn into a fire hazard again THEN I think they will be kicked out without a second though especially if Barb proves herself to be in "The right mind". Chris on the other hand might exist as leverage that would let the insurance company extend the stay, but otherwise I don't see much hope for the chandlers

I can't speak for Virginia, but most places have Tenant's Rights laws on the books that, with skilful use, can put off eviction for months if not years. I doubt Barb is smart enough to manage that, but she may well find a tenant advocate who is.

How the hell could you sell 14BC? They couldn't sell it decades ago.

Bare land value. Even now, even after the fire, 14BLC could probably be flipped at a profit, especially if you rebuild it, take the loss this fiscal year (or amortize it depending on your other taxes), rent it (but not to the Chandlers) to cover property taxes and recoup construction costs, and sell it on when the market picks up again with the delay qualifying your profits as long term capital gains. Of course I haven't yet seen inside…

That rental house is nice by my standards because it seems big and has two stories. I never thought rental houses in the States could look like that. I always pictured them to be one floor only.

That's an odd thing to think. Most of the really nice houses you see in U.S. movies and television that aren't just a backlot set (and probably all the nice houses in U.S. pornos) are rentals.

Chris seems relatively lucky that insurance is paying their rent in that house.

It's not luck. It's part of their insurance policy.

Honestly, it a bit unusual to me as well. I've seen plenty of instances of house fires where the family is placed in a temporary trailer home set up outside of the original house as renovations to it are being done. Perhaps it varies by how long the insurance company estimates the renovations will take? The Chandler's insurer of choosing probably looked at 14 Branchland and said "fuck it".

It depends entirely on the terms of the policy and what is cheapest for the insurer to rent. For cases of long term reconstruction a rental home as similar to the one being rebuilt as possible is usually the standard, and also can be cheaper long term than a trailer home, which can have very low resale value once the occupants have moved back into their reconstructed home.

Growing up my family has owned rental properties down here in Texas and in the past it has been our (the owner's) responsibility to make sure the lawns were mowed and taken care of. Friends of mine who have owned their own rental property also had such arrangements where they, as the owner, were responsible for managing the yard. Now things may be different in how it's handled up in the north east, but I just wanted to throw out there that it may not be entirely Chandler fault for the exterior conditions of the rental house.

It depends on the renters and landlord and the terms of the lease, really. Sometimes the renter will maintain the yard themselves because they enjoy yardwork or have some standards. These are the best renters. Sometimes it's easier for the landlord to just hire a landscaping crew for regular maintenance and tack a little extra onto the rent (usually more common when the landlord has multiple properties or multi-family rentals). Somehow I suspect that's the probably approach the Chandler's landlord is taking, especially since the probable name on the lease is State Farm Insurance, though given Barb's predictable response to strangers coming into "her" yard to mow etc. the condition of their rented lawn is not surprising even if it is supposed to be getting regular professional care.

The rental house has three bedrooms, and is only 200 square feet larger than 14 BC. It's not really that large, but it's plenty for two people to live in.

What with the hoard taking up all that cubic footage at 14BLC, it's certainly more living space volume than the Chandlers are used to. It's sometimes boggling how the Chandlers manage to waste more living volume on hoard than many people have in total just to live in.

I also don't recognize the cars. Anyone have references to the Chandler's cars (old and new) to reference??

I recognize the minivan. Could that be Bob's BMW? It might be a Z3. Damn I hope for their sake they haven't been spending their 14BLC settlement on repairing that old thing (or on new cars).

If I won the lottery, I would buy a good car, a nice little house, fill my house with some fancy electronics and vidya, and that's about it. I'd probably put the rest of the money aside for my kids' college or something.

If I won the lottery, the first thing I would do is find a good liability attorney and hand him over a big fat retainer. Then look for a good liability insurance policy. Once people know you've come into money you tend to get sued for the stupidest shit. You know Chris and Barb would be, and not necessarily for stupid things. There's no way in hell Snyder would have been so lenient with Chris had Chris been a lottery millionaire.

I don't get how these people just blow through millions like it's nothing. I don't get how they can be so short-sighted.

Remember, these are usually people who invest in lottery tickets. Fiscal common sense isn't exactly one of their strengths.

 

[twf]

Those chairs were VERY HEAVY no doubt.

 

[garbageraider]

I'm certain that there's a mower somewhere in the greenhouse

I'm certain there's not.

 

[Tubular Monkey]

Bare land value. Even now, even after the fire, 14BLC could probably be flipped at a profit, especially if you rebuild it, take the loss this fiscal year (or amortize it depending on your other taxes), rent it (but not to the Chandlers) to cover property taxes and recoup construction costs, and sell it on when the market picks up again with the delay qualifying your profits as long term capital gains. Of course I haven't yet seen inside…

Yeah, that sounds like something an insane old woman on her death couch would be amenable to.

 

[A-№1]

Yeah, that sounds like something an insane old woman on her death couch would be amenable to.

Ah, but you asked how I could sell it, not how Barb could.

Like Chris, Barb would probably shit herself and do nothing. But with more screaming.

 

[milkshark]

Thanks SkyRaider91 for the pictures. I really wonder if Chris wished upon a star last year for the hoard to disappear. That would be so awesome.

Is Chris still located in Ruckersville, or is he in a different town now? I ask because I wonder if the new place has taken him further from his banned hangouts, or if he still has to drive out of town to buy Squinkies.

 

[4Macie]

Thanks SkyRaider91 for the pictures. I really wonder if Chris wished upon a star last year for the hoard to disappear. That would be so awesome.

Is Chris still located in Ruckersville, or is he in a different town now? I ask because I wonder if the new place has taken him further from his banned hangouts, or if he still has to drive out of town to buy Squinkies.

I think when someone looked at the tag on the picture it put them in a different small town outside of Ruckersville. But not like miles and miles out, I think he's only 5 miles out or so.

 

[Da Pickle Monsta]

I'm certain there's not.

Interesting. I know they had a ride-on mower back when Bob was still alive--I'm guessing it's as non-functional as the cars, now. I'd just kinda assumed they might have a push-mower--but even if they did, it's probably lost to rust.

 

[Christ-Chan]

Interesting. I know they had a ride-on mower back when Bob was still alive--I'm guessing it's as non-functional as the cars, now. I'd just kinda assumed they might have a push-mower--but even if they did, it's probably lost to rust.

They had at least one of each. Chris mentioned during one of his tales of legendary suffering that Barb rode the ride-on mower while Chris HAD TO USE A MANUAL ONE. Once.