Do you suppose the Herald would post pictures if that happens?
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But this is Williston, ND. What else is there to report on aside from all the water, curbside camper parking, man camps, etc...
And bar fights, of course. We can't forget the bar fights, or at least, we can't forget the ones that happen at the strip club. Er, gentleman's club, that is.
Really?! Please tell me it's the strippers that are fighting. Now that would get a GW out of my pocket.
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But this is Williston, ND. What else is there to report on aside from all the water, curbside camper parking, man camps, etc...
And bar fights, of course. We can't forget the bar fights, or at least, we can't forget the ones that happen at the strip club. Er, gentleman's club, that is.
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But this is Williston, ND. What else is there to report on aside from all the water, curbside camper parking, man camps, etc...
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People certainly handle these things differently. I'm not typically a proponent of lawsuits to settle matters...unless something is done to break a legally binding agreement.
Randy, were you evicted before your lease was due? This isn't a case where her lease simply wasn't renewed.
If my immediate income is threatened by a contract breach, as is Liz's, I'm going to make sure my family is fed and mortgage is paid.
I would then take my business, as you say, to the next level like you did. But I would do it with the help of any funds I have coming due to the breach of contract.
This would all be different if they let Liz know her lease would not be renewed after August. Liz could very well have cut ties, upon agreement from her landlord, as she did and none of this would have happened. But, they told her July was it. Nothing beyond that.
It was an injustice, and injustices should never slide under the carpet. Or something like that.
No, Steve...we had several months notice, and no pressure to leave before the lease was up. I guess our circumstances were quite different.
As I understand it, EDE was told their lease would not be renewed. It was to end in August (end of that month I presume), and they were told they had to be out in July, and in an effort to not "waste" any money paying more rent, EDE moved out a month or more, early? I don't think there was any chance the landlord could have, or would have, showed up with a moving van and forcibly evicted them before August 31st.
I am in total agreement. If there is a breach of a legal binding document, then by all means the injured party has every right to seek justice, but I am not seeing any good grounds for a lawsuit.
I just come back to the original idea, that if the Herald wants to make this front page news, then they should start printing every instance of the same sort of thing going on in Williston...the readership would skyrocket. As sad as it is, I am surprised that the Herald chose to make it so public.
The upside is, that as soon as EDE gets situated, they have gotten hundreds of dollars of advertising for free. I hope they take advantage of it. We should all be so lucky...pass the lemonade.
People certainly handle these things differently. I'm not typically a proponent of lawsuits to settle matters...unless something is done to break a legally binding agreement.
Randy, were you evicted before your lease was due? This isn't a case where her lease simply wasn't renewed.
If my immediate income is threatened by a contract breach, as is Liz's, I'm going to make sure my family is fed and mortgage is paid.
I would then take my business, as you say, to the next level like you did. But I would do it with the help of any funds I have coming due to the breach of contract.
This would all be different if they let Liz know her lease would not be renewed after August. Liz could very well have cut ties, upon agreement from her landlord, as she did and none of this would have happened. But, they told her July was it. Nothing beyond that.
It was an injustice, and injustices should never slide under the carpet. Or something like that.
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ps...I'm good friends with Liz and have heard the entire side of her story. Something very fishy about how it all took place.
I was not trying to be facetious...I hope it works out for them. A considerable number of those same families who bring their children to her, have, or have had, children in our taekwondo and judo classes over the years. I totally understand where she must be at this point.
After 21 years in the same building, our landlord informed us that the lease would not be renewed. Such is life...so we just took it to another level.
In the arts, it is passion, more than profit, that is the engine that drives what it is that we do.
ps...I'm good friends with Liz and have heard the entire side of her story. Something very fishy about how it all took place.
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Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. – Philippians 2:3-4
I have no problem with property/business owners charging whatever they want. I do have a problem with someone that has signed a contract and renigs on it. Had they given Liz until the end of August...SUPER. But they didn't. And Liz made the decision to get the heck out in June more or less out of spite because she didn't want to give them $1000 or whatever the amount was for that month considering she was basically being evicted.
To break a binding contract is wrong no matter how you look at it. Those kinds of situations happen more than you and I know simply out of greed and pubilicizing those wrong doings could prevent further EDE's from happening.
On the other hand, supply and demand is the driving force causing others to jack their prices beyond affordability and there is nothing any of us can/should do about it until supply meets demand. I'm surprised city officials haven't worked on making that clear considering how many people are clamoring about this "cap" on rent prices.
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Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. – Philippians 2:3-4
By chance does anyone have some space for Liz to rent?
Her lease wasn't due to be up until the end of August yet she was told to leave in July. What's wrong with that picture?
We are only hearing snippetss of the entire story. If the lease was not up, then she was under no obligation to vacate the premises, unless there were restrictions or other stipulations to the lease agreement that we have not seen.
If she left voluntarily, that was her prerogative as a businesswoman. We probably will never know.
I think the real story in all this is, how did a business being told that their lease was up and would not be renewed become front page news?
If the precedent being set by the Herald is that this sort of thing becomes newsworthy, then I hope that they will start publishing every instance in which a landlord, or some other business person does something that is simply his, or her, right as property or business owners. To do otherwise is simply not ethical.
Rightly or wrongly, rightness, and wrongness often get overshadowed by pragmatism and the mercenary atmosphere we live in today is not going to go away anytime soon.
Having been there, I can surely sympathize with Elizabeth's situation, but she is the skipper of her own ship, and a whole bunch of lemons can usually be made into a big ole pitcher of lemonade...start squeezing...
By chance does anyone have some space for Liz to rent?
Her lease wasn't due to be up until the end of August yet she was told to leave in July. What's wrong with that picture?
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Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. – Philippians 2:3-4
