Oh boy, oh boy; this question is a biggy, and the answer in your face is going to depend on who you ask. If you ask your apartment manager, you’re going to get one, and it’s going to be painted heavily with the brush of profit and convenience as they see fit to do so, even if it’s in stark contrast to the law. When I moved in to Heatherwood, I saw the rates they wanted to charge me for their Bulk Cable account through Comcast, so I headed straight for the Dish… and was told I couldn’t have one. Turns out it isn’t that simple, so if you have an apartment and want a satellite dish, you need to know a bit more about your rights.
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Posts Tagged ‘heatherwood’
Can You Get a Satellite Dish at Your Apartment?
Monday, October 20th, 2008Captain Bice from Whatcom Security a Truly Remarkable Officer
Sunday, October 19th, 2008I had my first encounter with Captain Robert Bice just a few days after I moved in, but it was just the first of many opportunities to deal with him. I was so impressed with his dedication to service that I commended him by name to Phil at DevCo (the owner of Heatherwood), twice to Charito, once to each of the other managers (all at the same time) and even took the extra step to send a letter to his supervisor. What follows is the letter I sent, and the response that followed.
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What Happens If The Site Gets Shut Down?
Friday, October 17th, 2008This question has come up about fifteen times now, both from my two kindly editors, and the outside readers who have found the site. Since I don’t have a Frequently Asked Question page, I guess I’ll just answer the one question most frequently asked here. It depends what you mean by “shut down”, and it depends why it happens… Hope this helps… oh wait, you wanted more than that? Fine, read on.
The reasons why this or any other site may be shut down is countless, but for the sake of convenience, let’s break it into three pretty obvious categories, with answers for each.
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What Would It Take to Delete Articles Off This Site?
Thursday, October 16th, 2008As with every site and project I operate, I hire outside editors to go back over my work. Mostly they’re just here to fix spelling, word usage and grammatical errors, but often they go far beyond the call of duty and interlink pages, offer thematic revisions and even make personal suggestions and recommendations. See, although I’ve been tested to an IQ of 135 (I’ve always said I’m no genius, and the test that measures it don’t lie) I have a painful lack of attention to detail, and when it comes to spotting my own mistakes, I’m even worse for the wear.
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Pausing to Breathe a Minute While Heatherwood Regroups
Thursday, October 16th, 2008As you can imagine, this site has caused some stir in the upper echelons of Heatherwood’s higher management. That isn’t a call to arms as much as a statement of fact. My ability to market the site in order to get the word out has been met with fair success, for what little I’ve done, and the message, it seems, has not fallen on deaf (nor dumb) ears. While I could go full-tilt with my site promotions, I’ve chosen instead to grant a bit of hesitation while they regroup.
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Stormy Cloud Imagines Silver Lining
Saturday, September 27th, 2008When I first launched this project, I wondered what would happen if Heatherwood senior management (not Charito or any of the golf-cart queens, but the real powers-that-be) saw my efforts, stepped up and offered me a quiet bucket of hushy-hush cash. It’s always a very real possibility, but one I didn’t want to think about, because this effort is so much bigger than me.
Let’s face it, I already got back an amount of rental deposit I was willing to accept. Sure, it’s still heavily discounted by an assortment of frauds rife in the entrenchment of Heatherwood management, but every man has his price, and I’d be lying to say I’m no different.
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Signing the Lease
Thursday, September 25th, 2008When we first found Heatherwood, we couldn’t believe our luck. From before the first day the whole thing seemed too good to be true… and maybe it was.
Despite our good credit (good enough we rented the past two houses without problem, and our credit got no worse) we had to take on a co-signor. It was a real struggle to get one, but my ex-brother-in-law stepped in when others stepped out.
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