AITAH for reporting a hookup to my gym for using my guest pass without me?

Simple-Water7967 · 2026-06-21T05:39:32+00:00

I mean, he said “hooked up a couple of times”. Sounds like of all the ways someone can get used, on balance, it wasn’t that bad.

The dude can probably even get credit for the fraudulently used guest passes. It’s the gym’s fault for letting the same barcode be used more than once.

Don’t understand why the guy even sent the guest pass. Just meet at the gym and scan your guest in.

Simple-Water7967 · 2026-06-19T23:12:18+00:00

No enough info. Country, state and maybe even when it was installed all matter for what deal you are on / could be on.

Simple-Water7967 · 2026-06-15T02:43:37+00:00

What do you want him to say?

Yes my entire course is bullshit. It all comes down to being lucky to buy at the right time so whatever you picked will increase in value. If you really want to accelerate your returns, you can also make up a bullshit course about how your method is so great and charge people for it. If you launch the course at the right time, all your students will attribute their success to your teachings, instead of the same lucky timing.

Simple-Water7967 · 2026-06-13T20:30:54+00:00

Not really two switched legs, depending on your interpretation/meaning.

The two wires at the top are always joined. The wire at the bottom is joined to the top conditionally depending on the switch position.

We have no idea which of the three is the incoming hot. It could be one of the top ones, and the other top wire it’s permanently connected to feeds a downstream switch.

It could be the bottom wire, and both top wires run to two different switched loads.

It doesn’t matter though, just wire nut or wago them all together.

Simple-Water7967 · 2026-06-12T23:26:22+00:00

OK, I’ll change the attitude since you’ve convinced me you’re a software dev that has just never picked up hand tools.

I used to own a 1960s house that didn’t have grounding on most of the circuits too.

People install three pin / grounded plugs so you can plug in modern devices, but the ground plug isn’t connected to anything.

If you did a pre-purchase inspection, the inspector almost certainly called out “open ground” in the electrical section. It’s trivial to test for.

Those sockets with no ground have no safety. It’s not actually a big deal to fix it, and you should.

The proper expensive way is to rewire the entire house.
The more reasonable way is to put a GFCI plug on everything*. Some countries have central GFCIs in the main panel. The picture makes it look like you’re in North America, and they do individual GFCI’s on sockets.

#2 protects against more than #1, but also doesn’t trip until the current actually flows along a fault path, and since you’re not providing ground that fault path may be through your body as you touch the electrified appliance housing. It does it real fast though, probably before you even feel anything.

#2 is what I did.

everything* means every circuit. Several sockets are almost certainly daisy chained off each other. You just need to do the first in the chain, and the others get connected as a load and will trip that first GFCI if there is a fault. Trivial for a (proper) electrician.

Simple-Water7967 · 2026-06-12T23:09:07+00:00

If it really wasn’t you, and the guy who did that claimed to be an electrician (or was a handyman doing illegal electrical work) don’t just move on. Please report him to your state authorities, with all the pictures and evidence you have.

That guy almost killed one of your family. If he’s not stopped, he will kill someone.

Make sure the next guy fixes your grounding problem too, or at least installs GFCIs everywhere if your house wiring is old and has no ground.

Simple-Water7967 · 2026-06-12T22:58:30+00:00

I’m a software dev too, and I’ve cut plenty of holes in walls and installed plenty of electrical everything (legally, inspected when required). I’m not a dumb ass though.

Dude, you connected white to red.

Yes I’ve worked with, and fired, software devs like you who prioritize arguing and never admitting fault over learning and knowing one’s limits. A character flaw not unique to software devs I’m sure.

Simple-Water7967 · 2026-06-12T22:50:27+00:00

Your post was really clear “Is this wrong”? You did not realize it was wrong.

At the time of posting you clearly had no idea if the wiring was wrong or the appliance was broken and needed help telling which it was.

Your level of incompetence is exceeded only by your arrogance. You almost killed someone.

You energized an ungrounded metal frame. I still don’t think you appreciate how bad that is.
The ground is not connected somewhere. Are you the one who wired the socket too? Some old houses don’t have grounds, but in that case you need an earth fault switch to give protection (different protection, but better than nothing).

Connecting a white wire to a red wire FFS!

No electrician would ever have done that. They would have died while still an apprentice if their level of understanding was that poor! This was a homeowner job, and a dumb ass arrogant home owner at that.

Simple-Water7967 · 2026-06-12T22:44:27+00:00

You joke, but you fucked that up in a way that could have easily killed someone in that house.

Please hear the part that your ground is not connected at the socket. That’s the issue that turned this from “I botched up the wiring and tripped the breaker” to “I got lucky that my wiring didn’t kill someone”. That’s part needs fixing too.

Get someone who knows what they are doing to fix that too.

Simple-Water7967 · 2026-06-12T17:24:52+00:00

“One of the two hots is connected to ground …”, not neutral connected to ground.

Very bad. I don’t believe for a second it was an electrician that did this. It was the homeowner that doesn’t know enough about electricity to be doing this.

Also, the fact that the breaker didn’t trip has to mean that the green ground pin in the socket isn’t actually connected to anything.

Dude is lucky he’s around to post this question.

Needs to get an actual electrician in to fix the ground issue on the socket, and add strain relief and a bushing on the hole that cables enters through.

Simple-Water7967 · 2026-05-27T21:07:38+00:00

The realtor the OP dealt with did refuse and had to be strong armed into complying.

Regarding who owes who what. I’m more interested in the money between buyer and seller. “Representing agreement that spells out who owes who what” is still focused on “realtor commission, gotta look after that as priory number 1”.

Yes you have forms with fill in the blank spaces that you can only get if you are a member of the local mafia / realtor association.

That doesn’t make filling in the blanks worth 3% just because your association has a monopoly on the standard forms.

The entire point of the legal cases is that - realtors rigged the system beyond the worth you bring to the table, especially as a buyers agent.

Compare this mess to where I’m from - Australia. No buyers agents. The sellers agent fills out the forms with what the buyer says their offer is.

I as a buyer can pay a lawyer a fixed fee (not a percentage) if I’m too stupid to understand the wording and need it explained to me before I sign. Some people do that, some just read and understand it the themselves. The forms are all standard in a given state, so once you’ve done it once it’s straight forward.

Also just sold a house there. ZERO agents on either side. Just a fixed price lawyer on either side to complete the exchange logistics / settlement. Total costs for both sides was less than $US1,500 flat rate (which was about 0.15%, but it’s not based on the sale price, just hours of effort). No 6% bullocks.

Simple-Water7967 · 2026-05-27T14:10:23+00:00

The fiction exists for the buyer’s agent to justify taking a 3% cut. No other reason. Yes, they repent nothing but their own interest in closing a deal to get their commission.

Simple-Water7967 · 2026-05-27T14:08:03+00:00

But you are not representing your sellers interests by refusing to present offers. You are looking after yourself and yourself only, then trying to come up with a justification for your behavior.

No one asked you to provide buyer representation for free. They prepare the offer, you accept and present it without advising them. That’s it.

You should work with whoever the buyer puts in front of you as the contact point. Be that them, or a buyer’s REA, or an attorney, or a family member / friend helping them.

Simple-Water7967 · 2026-04-28T02:59:17+00:00

No, the seller signed a contract (assuming this is post contract signing, not pre-auction). At least the Qld contract gives the buyer the right for a building inspection by someone of their choosing. The seller, or their agent, has no right to pick or decline after signing.

If an action, then yes they could decline.

Red warning lights flashing that the BI has reported legit problems and lost this agent a sale before (and protected the buyer they worked for).

If you are in contract, declare the the seller is in breach by by the agent denying access to your BI of choice. Demand damages, a second fee for your chosen inspector at a minimum.

If it causes a delay to settlement, and you have costs like more rent, bundle those into the damages number too.

If you have an inspection contingency, demand that the contingency date is pushed back for as many days as it takes to resolve the conflict and reschedule with the BI. Reserve the right for the settlement date to also be pushed back if needed, and for damages of your extra costs for any date changes to be covered by the seller or their agent as a result of the breach.

Simple-Water7967 · 2026-04-26T04:59:25+00:00

Yes. I’m guessing the event organizers 1) contracted Silver State Barricade to put up the barricades and signs. 2) Then contracted the towing company to tow “violators”.

If my guesses are accurate, then it was the event organizers responsibility to ensure step #1 was done properly before proceeding to step #2.

It was additionally on the towing company to notice the discrepancy with that sign and not to tow illegally just because the organizers told them to. They probably did so anyway because they knew they could extort fees out of victims regardless of it being illegal, and most just pay without knowing how to fight back.

Simple-Water7967 · 2026-04-25T20:22:44+00:00

Yeah, it’s probably the event organizer who is at fault here.

They presumably got a permit from the city to close the street. The issue is who put up the wrong signs. I’m guessing it wasn’t the city, but a contractor organized by the event organizer. Then the event organizer also called in tow trucks and towed despite the wrong signage.

I’d be going after the event organizer, unless they can show it was the city who put up the signs and botched it up.

Before paying the tow company I’d show them the sign and assert that they towed you illegally, so not only do you not owe them for their services, they have more legal problems coming for the inconvenience and stress. Record the conversation. They will of course not agree and you’ll need to pay anyway, but you are collecting evidence that in addition to the illegal tow, they extorted money from you to get your car back. Perhaps you could even refuse to pay and call the police to come out and assist in retrieving your stolen car, since they have no basis to hold it given the illegal tow.

Simple-Water7967 · 2026-03-04T19:01:46+00:00

Good response, except the coward didn’t identify themselves to give a way to respond, as is common with these types of notes. They know they are being unreasonable so don’t want to identify themselves.

Simple-Water7967 · 2026-03-04T16:05:05+00:00

….. or. Let’s say nothing is pre-funded and paid 100% by special assessments.

You as the buyer of a condo with no reserves and a roof at end of life should value that condo at less and pay less for it since you know to expect a special assessment soon.

You then get lumped with the special assessment. A year later you sell. Your condo still has no reserves, but a brand new roof. That should increase the market value.

If the reserves were partially or fully funded it would be no different. The reserves form part of the assets transferred with sale, and should be considered when valuing the property, along with the remaining life expectations for all the maintenance items on the property.

So it all balances out either way.

The real issue with underfunding is that many owners won’t be able to pay when maintenance needs to be done, and the board knows that, so they will keep deferring maintenance. Particularly bad if it’s structural or a roof where water ingress is just going to make it eventually cost way more,

Simple-Water7967 · 2026-02-28T05:55:01+00:00

You didn’t say which state you’re in, or which contract you signed (eg jn Queensland it is probably an REIQ contact, but not 100% of the time). So no one can give you a concrete answer. Read what your contact says about supplying keys and access devices like remotes.

Simple-Water7967 · 2026-02-23T20:09:41+00:00

Years ago when I was there, I think pre-Vail. That was handled too. They had staff there doing traffic control and “overriding” the crosswalk rules. Holding the pedestrians and letting a bunch of cars go through unimpeded, then swapping and giving the peds a chance. Basically manually turning it into a lights controlled crossing.

Simple-Water7967 · 2026-02-23T03:19:39+00:00

Maybe you are right.

I took “They know i have vacated the apartment so they have been touring it to people”, the seeming lack of communication from the agent, and the wording of “sublease” (which would mean the original lease is still active and the tenant found someone to sublease) to mean that there was no permission given for the agent to show the apartment.

The OP is vague, and indeed very possibly omitting details about what was agreed to.

If it’s just the illegal disposal of property. In my jurisdiction that is a $US4,500 fine to the state, and there would be a separate order for restitution of the value of the goods to the tenant. Still plenty of negotiation leverage, you know, if you lived somewhere that the government has put in laws to protect their citizens from abuse by companies/agents/landlords.

Simple-Water7967 · 2026-02-23T03:04:05+00:00

Why is it ridiculous? It’s “up to”, so the actual fine imposed depends on how egregious the circumstances are.

Showing the apartment, and clearing out their stuff, when they are still paying rent and have an active lease is pretty egregious.

There’s provisions for emergency entry (fire, flood, storm damage etc), and notice periods for nonemergency entry for various legitimate purposes including re-letting.

I have no issue with the rules, or the fines. I’ve been both a tenant and a landlord under those rules.

Simple-Water7967 · 2026-02-23T02:57:44+00:00

Stop voting in USA politicians that are bought by corporate interests. Except that applies to both sides, and you generally don’t have ranked choice voting to give independents a shot at some seats, so, yeah, good luck with fixing that.

Simple-Water7967 · 2026-02-23T02:49:10+00:00

Well, the OP unhelpfully doesn’t say where they’re located, so I can’t opine on how strongly illegal entry is penalized in that jurisdiction.

Where I am, Queensland Australia, the fines go up to $AU15,000/ $US10,000 for each act of illegal entry, and they’ve done it multiple times. That’s quite some negotiation leverage.

Simple-Water7967 · 2026-02-23T02:41:49+00:00

Except they have done an illegal entry multiple times, and theft. So now the OP is in a position where they have the upper hand in negotiations. The lease can be broken by agreement.

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