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Over the Mountain

10,000 Birds

The apartment was in an older house that had been rather eccentrically divided, and while it had certain advantages over my then-current place (a working thermostat, less rapacious landlord, closer to campus) I was unsure if I shouldn’t hold out for something even better.

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Birding Sarajevo or the sentimental journey home

10,000 Birds

Before heading higher, above the tree-line, I asked our landlord if there were any minefields to be aware of. There were also solitary European Crested Tit , Eurasian Treecreeper and the Red Crossbill , awaiting me in the same habitat. He said yes, there are, but way far, on the other side entirely. Encouraged, I follow the dirt track up.

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Reasons to Choose a Pet-Friendly Retirement Community

4 The Love Of Animals

Landlords love to hate them, and some senior living centers are equally inhospitable to your furry friends. One of these things is how the retirement community regards its residents owning pets. Which is what makes finding a pet-friendly retirement community so important.

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How healthy is your office?

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Commercial landlords typically want to operate a building at the lowest possible cost. One challenge to increasing the focus on healthy commercial buildings is that of split incentives. Macomber estimates the cost of having a building be WELL-certified at 1 or 2% of the total capital cost. Who will foot that bill?

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“Your Rent, Your Rottweiler, and Your Rights”

4 The Love Of Animals

Robin believed that the rule implied that if a person could keep an animal in her apartment for three months without the landlord saying anything about it, the pet would be grandfathered in. But that was created to prevent a landlord who knew you had a pet from kicking you out for another reason later.

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Birding the Kruger Park (3): Malelane area

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The room was one stuffed with pillows – it seems some landlords think the more pillows are in a room, the cozier the place is. Malelane is a small town just outside of the Kruger Park – we dropped our stuff there before entering the park for the first time.

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Birding Wawushan, Sichuan

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Predictably, that got them into trouble during the cultural revolution – they were denounced as belonging to the “Five Black Categories” (though it was never exactly clarified to which of the five undesirable categories they belonged to – the landlords, rich farmers, counter-revolutionaries, bad influencers or right-wingers).

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