Blockbuster Movie Rentals

Hello everyone, how are you this evening.  I'm good, just typing, NOW ON TO THE INFO.

I'm here to talk to you tonight about Blockbuster, yes, the movie rental store and yes, we do have a Blockbuster card.  So, we have the Blockbuster movie pass, basically it is the Blockbuster version of Netflix. To be honest I like the Blockbuster movie pass, it allows us to get a movie by mail and when we are done watching that movie we can take it to a Blockbuster and get a new movie right away for free, after we are done with that movie then we take it back to Blockbuster and we get the next movie on our Que sent to us.  This is what I really like about it, you basically can get two movies right away if you watch them fast enough.  Well, that is what I like about it, but there is really one flaw in their whole movie renting game, and here it is.

OH MY LANTIS!!!!!!!!

So, there it is, you can not do anything but watch the DVD or Blu-Ray that you get.  This pissed me off when I found out about this because I am an avid fan of watching the special features of a movie, sometimes that is one of the main reasons why I even get the movie, especially on Blu-Ray since they seem to come with more special features then a DVD.  So basically when you rent a movie from Blockbuster, this is what you get, just a movie and it bugs me.

Now, I know I may seem retarded for letting this get on my nerves since technically you aren't paying full retail price, you are only paying about maybe 20-25% of what the actual movie is worth if you rent it from the store. So it isn't so far fetched that they would do this.  But come on!  What gets me the most heated is that they are joining forces with these movie company's to make sure that you don't get the full experience and that you have to go out and buy the whole movie to see everything included with the movie.  I don't know about you but I don't really go out and buy a bunch of movies, especially after I have seen them.  The only time I get a movie is when I really really loved it, and even then I feel like I am wasting my money to an extent due to the fact that I can probably just get it off of my Netflix or Blockbuster pass.  I don't know, it just seems like the lengths they are going to to make sure we don't get to see everything is a bit out of hand, almost to the point of seeming like they are taunting me for the fact that I don't have the actual movie in my movie library at home.

What do you think about this?  Am I over reacting or is this something that I should be mad about?

Well, that is all for tonight, I know that the last two blogs have been more of info/ranting, I promise that the next blog I write will be more upbeat and actually happy.

Until next time.

Our House Deposit(Lack There of)

So in March I made a blog talking about how property management places will try to screw you over when it comes to your deposit, well, it happened.(Reference this blog post  http://theflarida.blogspot.com/2012/03/boxes.html)

We finally received our check with what we got back from our Deposit and it was way lower then what my wife and I had imagined.  Out of a $1,000 deposit we received $443.75 of that back, WOW, are you serious, below is a picture of the "Itemized" list of expenses that they needed to make the house ready for a new tenant. Lets delve deeper into this.

So, the first thing.
$118.75 for Carpet Cleaning.  I'm not going to lie, this is the one thing that I feel is legitimate, we did not clean the carpet int he house or have someone come and clean it, I feel like this is justified and legit.  Carpet cleaning isn't cheap, so yeah, this is good.

Second.
$187.50 for House cleaning.  I would understand this if we had not cleaned anything in the house at all, but my wife cleaned both bathrooms inside and out along with the other rooms in the house.  The only things that weren't completely done were the floors which had not been mopped but had been swept and the upstairs carpet had been vacuumed.  The Kitchen was the worst, we did not clean off the counters, clean inside the fridge or the stove.  Other then those things we cleaned everything else.  I'm not sure what house cleaning company's charge but isn't this a little expensive for the kitchen and floors.  What do you think.

Third and Last(This one is my favorite).
$250.00 for Window Cleaning(Estimate).  WTF!!!!  Are you kidding me, that's not even the real bill for that, it's a guess at what it would have been if they had asked the cleaning company.  This is the most bullshit of them all, I think that even with just the two charges above we would have been fine, but this charge is the most ridiculous of them all.  Window cleaning should of been included with the House Cleaning when the company who did it cleaned the house.  Like I said already, the thing that pisses me off the most is that there is no way this is the correct amount, to be honest I really feel like this is some sort of made up thing in order to squeeze as much money out of our deposit as they could.

So, there you have it.  This is the proof that your property management or landlord will undoubtedly try to screw you over when it comes to you getting back your deposit.  So take this information with you and use it to your advantage, use it to help you out as much as you can because this will most likely happen 9 times out of 10.  So there, you have been warned.

It's been just a bit...

Hi everyone, I suppose you have been wondering where I have been in regards to my blog writing and what not.  Well, fear not, I am still here with you.  I was just cut off from the internet for a while due to moving and getting a new job and all that other jazz that comes with not having the interwebs for like three to four weeks.  I shall be writing more and more blogs now due to me having a shit ton of content that I want to get out to all of you.  A lot has happened int he past four weeks, luckily all of the things have been very good and great things to happen.  Well, just wanted to let you all know that I am alive and well.  More content is coming real soon.

Until next time.