Every month my big management company charges 3% to charge rent to a card (any type of card). Only way to avoid this is paying by check. Passing fees like this is illegal in MA. My big management company literally told me “our lawyers said it was legal” and the MA attorney general said the the division of banks was responsible for enforcement (they are not) and no one can figure out a thing. The building I live in is 42 stories tall with 16 apartments per floor. This is one of 10 this company manages in Boston. Edit: I reported a white collar crime and no one cared.

Selfish move. There’s plenty of elderly people, strollers, wheel chairs that have a hard time especially as it packs and gets slick. Just be a decent person and shovel a path.

Exactly. Plus by the time your shoveling the roads have been treated so much the shit you throw in the road will melt pretty quickly assuming you don’t pile it up like an ass.

Really nice!!

Weird because every new yorker knows you don't have a rat problem until the rats are in your house.

Cats are killing machines and would likely threaten other animal populations. Every small animal is in danger when a cat is around. Cats kill for fun man lol

It just feels worse because the rats migrated when we had the lockdown and all the restaurants closed. Pre-covid, the rat pop lives in areas that had high concentrations of businesses, mainly restaurants, so they could eat the trash dumped behind the business. So you couldn't walk through back bay, the downtown area, fenway, allston, or parts of Cambridge without seeing huge rats. During the lockdown, we stayed home and as a result our trash stayed home with us. So the rats moved to our neighborhoods because that's where the food was

Light it on fire with a propane torch.

Where’s a damn pied piper when you need one.

Both of these

Ahh Brookline Rats - rugby club

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“What rats? “- lol ha ha ha

I vote gorillas …

Everywhere

Bwahaha this has been like this for 10 years at least. Don’t book holiday inn Brookline first floor… lol and don’t rent a basement apt.

These shitbags won’t touch it, but will downvote you regardless.

LOL!

Didn't they try that with Australia and it ended up being a chain reaction of "let's release the next animal to control the problem, turns out the last one was invasive!"

Dedicate it to MLK?

Don’t worry. A busybody neighbor will watch every move you make and yell at you for putting the snow “there”. Eventually, they will be quiet after you dump it one place they deem ok and that will be where the snow goes. Oh and wait until we get a real storm and all the snow from that one acceptable place gets plowed right back onto your car.

But in all seriousness, I always just put it around the trees.

turns out cats aren't great at killing rats. City rats are feisty and big. Cats tend to go for little 30 gram mice over big assed 330 gram rats.

In a large pile on side of the driveway or walk. If you have kids, dump it all in the yard, creating a mountain for them.

I grew up in NE Ohio, had a 6HP self driven snowblower, some winters, you just could not clear it fast enough, piles on side of drive.

It does melt, eventually

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I remember people in Boston shoveling a space and parking cars perpendicular to the curb.

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