Court ordered custody arrangements are no joke. Parents are arrested for kidnapping routinely. But OP hasn't said if this is court ordered and also, considering she is homeless and her ex is abusive, I think she should call the Boston legal resource someone mentioned to address her relocation questions

This - listen to this person

I liked all the states' old ones. They were easy to ID with a glance

I can't believe Evonne Klein, who ran the program, did not think there was anything wrong with skipping Bridgeport when they opened several intake centers for applying for the disaster funds. She put the closest one in Fairfield. Who does that?

And now she is in charge of the Coalition to End Homelessness.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/27/connecticut-hurricane-sandy-recovery-00074134

No. Income is a bigger factor. Higher incomes qualify for low interest SBA disaster relief loans and they got those too. As the experts quoted in this and the longer Politico story, those particular HUD funds are the only disaster funds available to the lowest income property owners. The others had more than one stream. They also tend to be savvier about flood insurance to ensure it covers what they want it to and is supposed to.

It’s so hard to know. RE prices are still going up here, while hot areas like AZ are going down

I’m a little confused- do you mean you are hoping to stay stationary in a tiny house for a while or stationary in an apartment for a while, then getting a tiny home trailer?

Tiny homes on wheels versus on permanent foundations, you’re probably aware, are treated pretty differently by towns zoning wise. On wheels will be the hardest. CT isn’t the most liberal. On permanent foundations, there are many towns that allow it and many that don’t. The zoning atlas link can help you identify those.

Of course, getting permission to park longterm from someone who has a house on the same property is something you could do either legally or get away with indefinitely, especially in places with privacy or more rural.

I don’t know which towns or sections of towns would allow wheeled indefinitely on your own piece of land, where there is no existing house. There might be some in the state.

I’m glad people are sharing the zoning atlas. It’s pretty helpful.

I don’t think so. Avangrid just doesn’t want to honor their contract. They want a redo. It’s referred to as a long time power purchase agreement but in none of the articles I’ve read does it specify the length of the contract. I guess it’s on file if anyone wants to dig it up. I think Avangrid should just eat it and apparently, so does everyone else. As part of Iberdrola, it’s a huge international company and can absorb the temporary impact of a calculation it regrets making.

The utilities make gobs of money on transmission and distribution improvements and extensions. FERC sets generous payment for transmission, and in distribution, the cost of capital improvements, such as more or improved distribution infrastructure, can be passed onto customers. They are always thrilled to do either so I don’t see any reason the utilities would want to stop the wind projects from coming online

The wrong kind of rock can explode

No, fresh pasta melts in your mouth.

Hi, I’m from out of state - was checking the national outage map and noticed that as of now, late Christmas Eve, in Tioga County, almost 100-percent of customers of Wellsboro Electric Co are still out of power. Anyone know anything about this company? (They also put out a request for customers to conserve energy. Lol)

https://poweroutage.us/area/county/762

I used to do this into late autumn/early winter. It was that my legs felt great as long as my feet, hands, head, and torso were warm.

Because maybe it will turn out to be better performance than Isaiah? Easy to please. I don’t apologize for them, I am fully committed to major overhaul of the electric market in CT

Other kinds of utility structures do better on all counts - price, outages, accountability - on the whole.

Two shuttles: GOAirport shuttle and RedDot are both daily van shuttles from NH to JFK. You can also take GO shuttle from grand central to JFK hourly.

That said. Overall interconnecting public transport between rail bus and plane around here is so sucky compared to Europe, for ex.

You can’t even take a shuttle plane from Tweed NH airport to the NY airports.

And Bradley Field in CT - what a joke, the train goes by it, not to it, so you have to catch a bus from Hartford train station.

Anyway, at least for JFk there are two shuttle companies from New Haven, proper that will take you all the way. It’s a miracle

To much old infrastructure. We are way overdue for upgrades and better interconnection

For a daily commute? Absolutely none of this is cheap enough for that.

The shuttle bus from grand central probably isn’t cheap enough for daily expense.

Anything train to shuttle bus or train to subway (cheapest) us going to be three hours each way - that’s six hours a day.

Rent a room in Ny for week nights? Come home on weekends?

Have you already flown out? Because there is a Newark Airport shuttle bus that runs from grand central

You can even team up with the other tenant/s. So like, for OP, if the other tenant’s toilet is messed up too, and the building’s pipes are clogged with roots or something, you can both pay the plumber out of your rent, but you have to do it correctly or you are screwed. This is partly why I think LCI would be a great guide in this, plus, well, this house just sounds like it is in dangerous condition and should be inspected by them in any case. When LCI comes out to inspect, after the inspection, ask them if any of the issues are ones the tenants can pay for out of their rent.

Right, and there are also procedures for paying for repairs out of rent if your landlord fails miserably to do them. Following the procedures makes all the difference for the tenant- you want them to have the poor standing, not you. Always follow the rules. Lots of guides online for CT landlord tenant law that are easy to understand and follow.

Yes, do it correctly- big difference in outcome for you

I am not sure just withholding rent is OK. I think you can deduct repairs from rent but not just refuse to pay. Double check the rules

Wow. So, there are procedures for paying for certain repairs and taking it out of the rent you owe. If you follow those procedures, you can’t be faulted under the law. That might get your toilet working but after reading all the details, I am deeply concerned that most of these repairs are whole house, and go beyond the scope of what a tenant could pull off. I hate to say it, but I think you have to call LCI.

After that, maybe they can help you decipher which repairs you can make out of rent and which are too big. For instance, can you repair the hole in the closet floor or is there a floor joist cracked underneath, rendering that a finger in the dike sort of thing?

Btw, I’m surprised you mentioned septic. New haven is on city sewer, not septic. They either have clogged pipes, or cracked pipe or roots clogging their pipes- they need to get their plumber in.

Those companies owned by Greer are a big mess right now. You may not be able to resolve this without LCI. I don’t know why city hasn’t moved to have the court receive rental payments for their properties already, to be honest.

I wouldn’t delay calling LCI either. You need to get it going

Little more background on Greer property obstacles. They may not respond to the usual saber rattling which is another reason for LCI. The family is in a financial crisis due to both legal bills from criminal defense for the Greer patriarch, and the huge civil settlement his victim, a former student, won in court. He himself went to jail. They have been trying to shield certain LLCs from providing for part of the legal settlement, apparently so they can live on it, maybe pay their legal bills with it, etc. All their income from their Yeshiva is gone. All his grown children left town. His ability to work and earn any income is gone. They will be leaning on these properties very hard as a source of income to stay afloat.

If the repairs needed exceed the combined rents of the building, the court should be made the receiver and manage the building.

Drats, Yale Art Gallery and the Yale British Art museum are both closed on Mondays

I second Willoughby’s. I’m a French roast addict and they’ve been my top choice for 20 years. They are super local but internationally recognized. Hey have a great variety and good bulk tea as well. They have regular or water process decaf and organic and not. They source their beans from all the great coffee regions in the world from farms they even seem to sometimes visit in person, and they don’t price gouge and aren’t “ precious,” just serious about coffee

Convenient to Hamden-a straight shot down Whitney Ave to their New Haven Church St(Whitney) location

Here is the google street view of the place.

It’s on a double yellow line road with no development across the street for a good long distance because that’s an enormous cemetery.

I doubt they have much of a case.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/38+Hubbard+St,+Glastonbury,+CT+06033/@41.6892282,-72.5965018,12z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x89e651f23507d5b3:0xd5dbb7d33341d685!8m2!3d41.7000709!4d-72.6061194!16s%2Fg%2F11b8v7853v

Seems like a missed opportunity for the neighborhood- they could have welcomed it and negotiated space in the front for neighborhood meeting space or bike repair for the kids.

Years ago the CT Supreme Court, to the shock of many, ruled that protecting housing values was a legitimate basis for a town’s high, and otherwise arbitrary minimum square footage requirement for new homes.

This is a little different, the town’s rules allow this to be built, but it just shows how deep it goes in CT. There is a good chunk of people who think it’s OK to treat towns like gated communities