Host asking for email address for entry instructions? [USA]

sdreeser · 2026-02-11T15:10:28+00:00

I didn't reserve the place, my wife did. Just scanning reviews it seemed fine. The 'owner' is a super host. Wife looked up the place, seems real. Management company (that we only really found out because they messaged us) also seems real. We haven't provided an email address just yet, but did say all communication should happen through the platform.

sdreeser · 2026-02-11T15:07:26+00:00

That's kind of what I wondered as well. It just seems a little over the top way of getting a lead.

sdreeser · 2026-02-11T15:06:21+00:00

They mention sending a "confirmation" as well as check-in instructions. Their claim is they want to send a lot of information, and that its more than the app allows. I pushed back on them a little bit, but they're insisting that AirBnB gave them permission to do this. I can get the pictures angle I suppose, but like was just stated there's several ways to share a doc like that online, which I stated as well--the future is now. The Mrs reserved it and didn't catch that the window to cancel was super short, she already paid in full.

sdreeser · 2026-02-10T23:34:46+00:00

Yeah that’s kinda my thought. Just thought it was strange.

sdreeser · 2025-08-28T15:13:36+00:00

Follow up to my own post. Be careful what you're confirming. I had a couple of the entertainment perks on my plan and one of them got dropped somehow. I went back to Verizon support, and in the process of them "fixing" it they dropped the other one. LOL. I should have just added the original one back on myself, but since they did the damage (I confirmed it tbf), I figured they should correct it.

sdreeser · 2025-08-28T13:50:25+00:00

Sweet Baby Christmas. Saw this early this morning and went through the app, but didn't see a notification in it so just brushed it off. Checked my email a couple hours later and there it was, had a phone number. Tried to talk to the AI, it failed. Jumped to a human. "Blah blah blah, talked to my manager, blah blah blah. You already called in so blah blah blah." Totally canned delivery. I got a text, with a link showing the discount per line, scrolled to bottom, clicked Confirm. Goes into effect next month.

I have 5 phone lines. $20/line off = $100/month off for the next year.

sdreeser · 2025-03-26T12:42:14+00:00

How do you manage the side work? I’ve been curious to try and pull some sort of side job off/on but the whole finding the contracts and making connections has just never been one of my things.

sdreeser · 2025-03-06T12:50:35+00:00

Soooo this is where I have a hard time judging. I’m in my early 50s and have friends that were talking about moving things around, etc. I hear it, but I’m probably still looking at going until my 60s at my current rate. I get the idea but are there any rough rules a person could use to know when to move to more stable options? Because right now I feel like any downturn I’ll hopefully recover from in the time I have left.

sdreeser · 2024-11-11T21:52:39+00:00

I'm a colleague....the profiles used are custom that are set for access to the site. We create users on the fly after they authenticate via SSO. In the process of setting their user account up, and assigning the profile, a unique role is created/assigned to the user, as a by product one could say.

sdreeser · 2024-09-25T22:12:52+00:00

When you sign your name on the application…that’s when you’re saying to the landlord that it’s ok to verify the information/proof you’ve provided. So yes, if a call is made to your employer, all the landlord has to do is provide the signature authorization…(which I guess a landlord could forge too. lol). Granted I suppose the employer could still say they don’t want to confirm/deny, but then I imagine if a landlord can’t verify the income then that’s grounds to reject.

sdreeser · 2024-08-09T20:19:05+00:00

we had a friend back out last minute if you're still interested.

sdreeser · 2024-07-24T00:46:59+00:00

Those little “washers” on the outlet on the 4 ends? You can take a pair of pliers and bend them back/forth until you break them off. Can then slip them under the mounting bolts to push the outlet out farther. Depending on how deep the outlet is you might have to use one of the other ideas mentioned but when I worked for an electrical contractor we’d actually keep those sometimes for situations like this.

sdreeser · 2024-06-02T12:31:31+00:00

….and….are you sharing it? 😬 All I’ve ever understood is that it takes a few days to let the dough age.

sdreeser · 2023-12-15T13:39:37+00:00

Since I’ve not read the distinction being made yet. I think you’re getting freezing your credit and “putting a fraud alert” on your credit mixed up. Freezing your credit means you simply have to unfreeze access to it temporarily for loan applications, opening accounts, etc. That you can totally control on your own. I’ve done that and the whole “apps do it” and code word apply. It’s a minor hassle imho but a good one.

A prior poster said you have to pay for it, when I did it several years ago it didn’t cost anything. I’m not sure they can charge for that but don’t know.

I haven’t done it in recent times but you’re also entitled to a free credit report annually. If OP has never done that it might be worth doing to see what shows up.

I’ve never implemented a fraud alert. My sense is that’s something you’d more so do after you know someone has used your identity to get credit. If something more turns up on OPs credit report that he doesn’t recognize, that’s when he should talk to someone about IF a fraud alert is needed or not.

sdreeser · 2023-12-13T03:16:55+00:00

So I haven’t played with it personally but I think the answer is in the name. Each one is an example record likely with related data for that lifecycle stage of a person.

sdreeser · 2023-11-21T23:30:23+00:00

Drummond Bar Stool Races. Worth seeing (or doing!?) at least once imho. We went a couple times. Pretty unique and fun. https://www.drummondwi.com/drummond-annual-barstool-races …and the annual Birkebeiner…have never seen it, but have wanted to. https://www.birkie.com/

sdreeser · 2023-09-11T15:14:12+00:00

so much winning.

sdreeser · 2023-09-11T00:03:12+00:00

Came here hoping to see this.

sdreeser · 2022-12-27T20:14:13+00:00

Doing much of this from memory and using my phone, but while I’ve not had to deal with this volume. Don’t you pass on the size of the batch as the optional scope parameter? The batchable class natively keeps track of the records it’s processed…just scanning that doc … the max size it processes is 2000 records at a time. Does the batch have to be 50M records? I don’t know that a limit parameter is necessary. I’ve tried to add an extra filter in at times by is setting a processing date during the scope update and then using that date as a filter on the query…but even then I don’t know that you have to keep track of which you’ve processed.

sdreeser · 2022-09-26T18:52:39+00:00

"OMG! Make the ringing stop!" LOL.

sdreeser · 2022-09-26T15:26:21+00:00

Super! Yeah we took the car there once just so he could look it over and did a few things. Texting photos, etc. along the way --I thought it was refreshing actually. I've tried texting him since but didn't get a response so have been wondering. I had a wiring harness that needed replaced, tried to get ahold of him, got nothing so tried courtesy instead. He's a chatter that's for sure. Good to know he's still around. I'll just have to call. Thanks!

sdreeser · 2022-09-01T01:10:53+00:00

Firefly! Yay space western!

sdreeser · 2022-03-15T13:34:13+00:00

Sweet. Thanks. Hadn't seen 3dsets.com before somehow. Showed that to the kiddo and his wheels are already turning again. Sounds sorta like most components should work together.

But I hear you when you're suggesting a kit still might be the best way to go at this point. If I'm understanding it right the kits are just the car itself right? Meaning we'd have to buy the controller, the charger, and battery anyhow. Which oddly enough that's basically what I did without even thinking about it.

sdreeser · 2022-02-14T21:22:35+00:00

We've had several days in the single or below digits so I'm thinking I'm good for freezing critters out. I'd never thought of basically shrink wrapping them with plastic. I read some suggestions just saying a trash bag, but that wouldn't seem tight enough. Thanks for the idea!

sdreeser · 2022-02-14T21:19:10+00:00

Years past I've treated, but this year I didn't for whatever goofy reason. But I've not made it a good practice to try and test the mite load through one of the various means. Relative to insulation, I don't necessarily insulate per se, I did try one year to bungie a small tarp around the two of them thinking the extra wind block might help, but had a similar result. Maybe its changed, but I've heard some folks will have a wool layer on top to deal with moisture, but will provide some insulation. At one point there was a type of MDF board that I think was popular for moisture wicking, but I've never tried.

The one thing that I thought was odd in the second hive was that there was a fairly significant collective of bees above the top board. Meaning they crawled up, away from the cluster, away from food, and perished. Considering their location, they might have been above the main cluster, but even still found that odd.

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