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rudyattitudedee t1_jdfj59k wrote

Reply to Poll on travelling gutter salesmen by monkeyinheaven

There’s lots of traveling salesman who drum up easy work. Was it cleaning gutters or literally adding gutters onto the house? If it’s just spring gutter cleaning it’s likely innocuous and they’ll probably do a fine job. It’s not hard to clean gutters if you’re willing to get up there yourself.

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geoff5093 t1_jdfhzr7 wrote

Reply to Best ways to find housing in Seacoast area? by quoth01

There is very little inventory right now. It should pick up as the spring comes, but I think a lot of people are holding on to their < 3% mortgages right now until prices or rates come down before they list, so it will probably stay very low inventory.

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Latakoo t1_jdff7gw wrote

Reply to Poll on travelling gutter salesmen by monkeyinheaven

It's a scam. They show up, get you to approve "cheap" work then in the process will do other work without permission or find "code issues" and all of a sudden a $200 job is now being billed as a $5,000-$20,000 job. They'll take the money and disappear, either having done a horrible fast job or not doing the work at all. The paperwork is likely all false names and addresses just enough to pass a light background check for when a neighbor does call the cops. This has been happening a boat load around New England this year.

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slowlyown t1_jdf8q8w wrote

Reply to comment by BlackJesus420 in Best ways to find housing in Seacoast area? by quoth01

This is a good idea! We worked with one in Dover and she found us listings that, due to how competitive the rents market was, would have never gone to Zillow. Fb marketplace wasn't a bad place to look either.

Dover is really hard though. Consider expanding your search to Newmarket or South Berwick.

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warpedaeroplane t1_jdf76us wrote

Reply to comment by smartest_kobold in Poll on travelling gutter salesmen by monkeyinheaven

I don’t disagree at all, but there are people and there are words ascribed to them. Gypsy is an interesting one because, at least for myself and many others, it was usually used in a manner similar to Bedouin or nomad and was more of an indication of lifestyle than a “slur”. I’m an American, so I wasn’t aware of the more heavy racial/societal charge behind it particularly in Europe.

If I’m not mistaken, Irish traveling people do have a specific cultural name and heritage which unfortunately eludes me now. There’s a pretty mid episode of Star Trek TNG which has a …poorly represented version of one such group.

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