Properties owned by Wooten are Equal Opportunity Housing, and from my experience only have asked for proof of income in order to rent. The caveat is that not all Wooten properties are created equally and some are better managed than others.

7th on walnut is a treat. Downtown SGF

Thailand Station on E. Republic has some amazing basil fried rice and veggies! I get mine at Spice Level 3. 🤤

Damn I'm such a prophet that they pre-emptively closed before I made my prediction!

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Boats, cars, houses far more important

Damn, dude took all those fake PPP loans but couldn't even have the sense to pay rent for the businesses he did have.

Thought it already was closed or closing?

Eminent Domain definitely has a hell of a lot more reason to exist than Civil Asset Forfeiture, for sure.

My main complaints, personally, are stem from using Eminent Domain to screw the people being bought-out out of the value of their property. Stuff like paying the value of the undeveloped land, not the actual sale price of the property if they listed it.

Makes sense. Pretty sure the owner is the dude getting hit with the fraud charges by the government. Won't be surprised if Bourbon and Beal closes too.

That sounds about right to me. If you have any experience with Wooten Co that's the one that's giving me all the issues. What's crazy is that I already live on one of their properties, I'm just looking to get a two bedroom to get a roommate. I've already been approved once for this company but got nixed the second time? I hate applying for apartments lol

Also I agree whole heartedly about asset forfeiture. I very rarely hear of cases of imminent domain where it seems clear to me there wasn't' a genuine public interest and I am left feeling like the process was abused. Not never mind you, just not often that I can think of.

Apparently they closed.

Go order off the traditional menu at Asia Express. You have to ask for it, it's different than the menu they default to handing out. The pho with tripe is delicious.

So is the sentiment here "it sucks but it's necessary" or "it sucks and should not exist"?

Cause I might be willing to agree with the former, but not the latter.

There are a hell of a lot of things that are terrible but it's good it can be done when needed.

Ahh, the shadow credit report. So they develop a tenant "profile" of a bunch of personal and financial details and run it through algorithms for a computer to decide if the tenant is high risk or not. That screening tool has even less regulatory oversight than credit scores, and people and advocacy groups have raised concerns that these secret screening methods are a way to bypass equal housing rights and discriminate against otherwise acceptable candidates. For your sake, I hope it's the screening tool basing it off your student loans, while still a poorly applied derogatory remark on your tenant likelihood, and not some other BS discrimination.

Ditto.

Crossing the center is something we spend our entire lives knowing is anathema, and then they ask us to do it. It's just wrong, on a conceptual level no matter how efficient it is.

I've already got a place here I'm just looking to move to another one but thanks for your...kind offer

Back scratches are part of the deal.

You are fucked. That is it. I am sorry for being rude. But you might be jacked. You can cuddle with me though for 300 a month.

But dti doesn't directly calculate into credit score. And student loans count as income for housing purposes as it's a legal way to use student loans. Apartments don't generally consider dti as it's more a use for lending purposes. They look at history of payments, bankruptcies, basically financial integrity. In this area, with so many students, colleges, and apartments, student loans wouldn't be a negative except for the most premium apartments, which I'm sure OP isn't pursuing.

Problem is, it gets abused horribly, just like Civil Asset Forfeiture.

I sometimes feel like I'm the only person living in Springfield who thinks the traffic and roads are fine and pretty typical of cities this size, and rarely experiences issues with either drivers or the road network.

I know it's not true that I'm the only one, just people that are fine with things don't go online and make posts about how fine and un-noteworthy it is. The people that go make posts are the ones who want to complain.

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But man, almost every time I see these Traffic/Drivers suck posts, I'm like "do we live in the same city? What are you talking about?"

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Like MAYBE on a heavy shopping weekend or when there is some major event, traffic gets genuinely congested and backed up and bad, pretty much any other time....it's fine. There's maybe a 30 minute window right during rush hour that gets backed up a little, but even that isn't usually that bad.

Yeah it's all a little bizarre the places I'm applying to use some other sort of checking along with my credit score. It's called an RV index and my student loans are being factored into that. I just said credit score because it seemed simpler to explain. It's very frustrating because without those loans I'd be approved.

All public interest should grind to a halt if a stubborn owner refuses to sell?

being a witness to this entire scenario and apart of the staff, i have to say that the way this was blown out of proportion through our reviews is absolute chaos. the kid was screaming on his way out of the theater too, and it was the older one, not even the child with down syndrome. our manager was extremely respectful with her attitude towards the lady and didn’t even raise her voice. when she initially walked in to escort them out, the lady had her blanket over the kids head and was on her phone. big letters on the screen at the beginning “zero tolerance phone policy” if you break it, that’s your warning lol. we do have courtesy warnings sometimes with minimal distractions but the fact that this lady had multiple complaints about her child screaming randomly and making obnoxious noises, then was on her phone when our manager came in to get her… just mind blowing.