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Phyllis Graber Jensen Published on March 10, 2021 The email went out at 10:07 a.m. on Friday, March 13, 2020, from President Clayton Spencer. Due to the surging pandemic, Spencer announced, Bates would immediately suspend in-person classes, asking all 1,700 students — except those granted waivers through petition — to move off campus in preparation for remote learning to begin in 10 days. “My heart goes out to all of our students,” Spencer said. But, “we are at a pivotal momen...

Hi Pat. I think that ChCh is a bad example. Since the earthquake the city has spread out hugely to the west, north west and south west. In the east of course, which has historically been lower cost housing, its just one huge barren landscape in many areas. The whole market is totally distorted. The new dwellings are all of a certain type. Flashy, expensive and not really good rental material. So, I would strongly disagree that supply has increased in the rental market. Agree with you re exces...

Bloody annoying behaviour from Vector yesterday. Caused the site to be off for most of the day and evening. Wed been informed earlier in the month of a power shutdown from 8am to 10 am. That is on the limits of my UPS. I just organised to be home during the morning. The UPS ran until about 1013. By which time, I was asking about why it was taking so long. The workers then told me that the power would be off until sometime around 4pm. Unfortunately the system shutdown hard, because of problem i...

And if the new owner wants to live in it …. aj … Essentially over the past 20yrs weve actually had to put money into the business to keep it afloat, and our tenants in their homes. Were now in the position of having shitloads of equity, but crap cash flow, and because Im close to retiring that isnt something I can sustain anymore. The trouble with this is that Ive heard this description from not only landlords but farmers as well, except farmers dont like to flaunt ...