IDK how helpful this will be, but I take Zumba on thursday evenings at the Tuckahoe YMCA (I’m sure there’s other Ys out there but I can’t speak to the quality of the classes at them). Candice, the instructor, is amazing. Most of the people in the class are regulars but there are a few beginners every week and she’s always so good. She will subtly make eye contact if you’re doing a move wrong and demonstrate it again without actually calling you out or making you feel singled out in front of everyone; she’s really welcoming and kind. She’s a larger woman as well, IDK if I’d say obese but she’s not your typical “fit gym girl” body type. I can say confidently that she and all the regulars there would be very accepting of you. IDK how close it is to you though, so I’m sorry if this isn’t helpful.

If its run by Richmond Coin laundry the BIGGEST washers cost 7.50 a load and its 25c/5min dry. One specifically on chamberlane charges $1/pound drop off service

It’s been a few years since I’ve been, but the midlo YMCA had great classes (Zumba, step, yoga, Pilates, etc) and it was a really varied audience- people of all ages and levels of ‘fitness’😊

CoStar is just doing what they always do, takeover a platform and spoil it. Nothing to see here!

Welcome to Virginia where you get taxed again and again on property you already own and already paid tax on when you purchased. It's an obnoxious racket. You should be thankful you have older vehicles as the newer the car the more taxes you pay on it.

And yes, the tax happens once a year.

You were at mine as well!

https://www.reddit.com/r/rva/comments/10ns292/_/

Mmmm yum yum

I might not agree with a lot of Charles post but damn how thin skin to report his comments.

Asians also live in a two parent household more than any other.

"The living arrangements of children vary by their racial and ethnic background. A vast majority of Asian children (85%) today live with two married parents, as is the case for most white children (74%) and Hispanic children (61%). The share among black children who live with married parents is markedly lower—36% of black children live with married parents. "

It's something that doesn't get talked about, but it should be

Intermission time so clarifying that yes, reading for filth means he doesn't like the decor. He feels like he's in an Olive Garden. Wall and carpet don't work and the turquoise all over doesnt help all the various blues. It's like Roman and Morrocan themes trying to make it work. All his opinions and hastily put together while getting a drink and Reeses Pieces.

So you were clearly at the table that night it seems.

>The younger generations are fucked because of profit incentives, and now the cartel ass algorithms are squeezing every paycheck because rent is being decided by soulless code. Yeah it costs money to make houses no shit.

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profit incentives are what build homes in the first place --nobody builds a home to loose money. think about why profits are rising, but supply is not.

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consider the inputs to housing: its not like the drywall, nail, lumber and concrete manufacturers are sharing these windfall profits. so the physical inputs to housing are more or less unchanged real prices. its a regulatory bottleneck. --- my neighborhood has seen home prices 2x in the last 5 years, yet the city hasn't legalized one additional home here. in fact, the quantity of homes in my neighborhood hasn't changed in 80 years. 80 years, and not one additional home. thats crazy

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>Zillow or BlackRock can buy 1,000 houses, and that’s just a drop in the bucket to them. They can swallow up an entire community like it’s nothing, and then what? they effectively control the regional markets?

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it actually doesn't change anything. since those homes already commanded monopoly level profits, zillow owning them doesn't confer additional rents. because if they did, the landlords would already be charging those prices.

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zillow faces the same rental market that the landlords do, so demand isn't really changing. ie -- the people zillow rents to and the people the landlords rent are the same, so they are both cost constrained in the same way.

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>I feel like this is grade school, literal monopoly board game logic. We’re literally the most prosperous nation on the planet and the majority of people are just fucked.

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Its not really wrong. NIMBY's basically control the city council and entrenched landlords/home owners are able to extract massive rents simply because they have their thumb on the supply. They know that if they legalize housing more broadly, prices will fall. So they purposely keep supply so constrained....and often limited to expensive large-scale development.... they purposely lag supply to maintain their extra-normal profits.

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Its basically regulatory capture by homeowners against renters.

Sounds like I’ll be taking my niece to the museum when she comes to visit ☺️

I had a Costar recruiter reach out to me on LinkedIn and I said no thanks. They asked me what was keeping me at my current company, and I mentioned how Costar had a reputation for poor company culture and high rate of employee turnover. I never heard back.

There’s a lot of problems out there man. There are more than 20x the amount of empty homes in the US than there are homeless people. The younger generations are fucked because of profit incentives, and now the cartel ass algorithms are squeezing every paycheck because rent is being decided by soulless code. Yeah it costs money to make houses no shit.

Zillow or BlackRock can buy 1,000 houses, and that’s just a drop in the bucket to them. They can swallow up an entire community like it’s nothing, and then what? they effectively control the regional markets? (I realize there are zillow lawsuits going on, fingers crossed) Isn’t that like, fucked? Most of this younger generation struggles to just pay rent, let alone save up for a down payment before a mortgage. I feel like this is grade school, literal monopoly board game logic. We’re literally the most prosperous nation on the planet and the majority of people are just fucked. God forbid they dream of owning a home. Ah fuck it.

That’s such an unreal thing to say. I get you’re trying to be woke but imagine generalizing an entire profession.

I would love to see a sample of his opinions.

How were the fries?

Have you seen the sidewalks?

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What a tasteless, trashy move.

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I guess George Santos works there.

It’s provocative. It gets the people going.