re: Offseason Rumors Thread: Tigerland Edition

and I had many good times at all of those miserable shite dumps during my college years.

where's tiger todd these days? I can't imagine he lasted much longer after losing tiger bar

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Freds used to be relatively upscale for a college bar. Sad if it has become a dump.

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Have you seen their new bathrooms?

If they build more shite, the Section 8 housing that is TigerLand will just relocate to another part of the area.

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How does it start as a place that college students live and can afford to be overrun by the blight of society that brings nothing but crime with it?

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Housing for students has to be cheap enough for them to afford, which generally means the complexes are built using cheap building materials. Those cheap materials cause the building to age rapidly over time. Inattentive landlords refuse to keep up with the place, so when newer properties open up nearby, the wealthier students go there and poorer students (often grad students), and minimum wage workers at the university move in.

As the complex deteriorates, willing renters become fewer and farther between, meaning the landlord as to get increasingly creative to get enough occupancy to turn a profit. Section 8 becomes an easy solution because the landlord gets paid no matter what and the tenets don't care if the place is a on the verge of being condemned.

man those ones on Burbank that didn't look bad just 10 or so years ago look like complete and total shite now

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As the complex deteriorates, willing renters become fewer and farther between, meaning the landlord as to get increasingly creative to get enough occupancy to turn a profit. Section 8 becomes an easy solution because the landlord gets paid no matter what and the tenets don't care if the place is a on the verge of being condemned.

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This, and each time the properties change hands between owners, less maintenance is performed. It gets to the point the only way to attract renters is via Section 8 then, voila, a slum is born.

Parking deck under a dorm is a must.