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  1. There is a difference in "right" and "ability". It is not that the person family does not have the right to purchase the house, it is that they do not have the ability to purchase the house. Those are very different issues that need to be addressed differently.
  2. No, it is not just an American thing.
  3. There are people in my neighborhood who have bought two smaller houses. built a large house and then rent out a garage efficiency apartment on the property. I can think of three properties within a block of my current home where this has happened, and looking at the history of my own property, I think this happened in the past. So, it isn't that no one does this.
  4. Not any more than purchasing the two 1500 square foot houses, tearing them down, and replacing with a 3000 sq foot hosue with a spare room to rent.
  5. What is so different from having a "spare" room in your house and having a garage efficiency apartment you rent out as a short term rental? Or, is it really different to have a 1500 sq foot house and also own the 1500 sq ft house next door which you rent out as a STR than to have a 3000 sq foot house in which you have a spare room to rent?
  6. The great thing about capitalism is that I can vote with my dollars. If I do not want to support a particular company and its policies, I can purchase from another company. If I don't want to support a particular hotel chain, I have choices. However, If I stay at a VRBO, I need to realize that VRBO is part of Expedia Groups, and the dollars I spend pay to support that corporate structure.
  7. Nobel laureate Ronald Coase offers an alternative to regulation--assigning of property rights.. If someone faces both the cost and benefit of protecting the water, for example, thenthey have the incentive to do so. Coase's suggesting is actually to use the power of competitive markets and incentives to provide for the commons.
  8. My response would depend upon (1) how you generally interact with the professors--do you usually use email? Or, is communicating through Camvas message the norm? (2) How much communication is there usually in your classes? Some online programs are designed so that professors are online a good deal and are used to spending time every day emailing students. But, if it is a program where a professor has regular classroom teaching duties and the online program is an additional obligation, I might expect a little longer response time because the professor might be busy for several days with teaching, grading midterm exams, etc. I would probably wait three days (not counting a weekend) and send a second email in case the first one was missed. If I heard no response within a week I would reach out to a fourth possibility for a recommendation.
  9. The generic student evaluation question of "Does the professor respond in a timely manner to students?" does not help the situation. I can get more emails in one day from my students than the total enrollment that some professors have in all of their classes combined. Students answer the question without any context--with the expectation that a professor teaching 500+ students per semester can respond to a particular email as quickly as a professor teaching 30 students per semester.
  10. I agree with you; I didn't mean to imply by comment that faculty should be expected to respond 24/7--this is an issue that I have found increasingly problematic. I don't think faculty should generally be expected to respond over a weekend. Likewise, I think it is unreasonable to expect faculty who are working in weekend programs or night programs to respond promptly during "regular work hours" My university somehow got the notion that faculty should respond to student emails within 24 hours--wanting us to place that on our syllabus. Somehow that got pushed to within 24 hours 7 days/week during COVID. If I have a busy teaching day, that is not always possible. I don't want students to expect an immediate response, so I am reluctant to respond on weekends, but sometimes it is actually a weekday I need a break from responding to email rather than on the weekend. Interestingly, when I contact an administrative office on campus, the staff does not have the expectation that they will respond within 24-hours. Somehow that expectation has been placed on faculty.
  11. As a college professor, I have never worked "usual business hours" Almost every semester I teach at least one night class. Some semesters I teach in weekend programs; I know few professors who typically work 8-5, M-F--they work many hours but not along the line of "usual business hours".
  12. There are two major categories of money issues that I would want to keep straight in a situation like this. One would be a decision about how month-to-month expenses are to be handled This seems like it would better be handled by having a spending account that both people deposit money into each month to handle what has been decided are joint expenses. The other decision, which is in many ways much more important, is a decision about long-term assets; this can cover anything from retirement accounts to home ownership to automobile ownership. Will you be renting a place together? Does one of you own a property? Is one person contributing to a retirement account while the other is not? This can bleed over into basic monthly expenses (e.g. if one person owns a house is that person responsible for repairs?).
  13. When I have been feeding just myself for an extended period of time, I shop much differently than when I am preparing for DH and myself. And, I know that when DH is by himself for an extended period of time he shops differently than if it is both of us at home. I would eat many meals of yogurt and fruit, scrambled eggs, oatmeal, peanut butter and jelly, and odds and ends from the freezer. However, I don't know how long I would do only those tpe of things becasuse there are other items that I enjoy cooking and eating. I would save money not buying some of the things DH likes: juices, specialty olives, sour cream and onion dip, energy drinks, hydration packets, Ding Dongs... But, if I am not home, DH will eat tuna fish (I am allergic), or heat a can of stewed tomatoes for dinner. So he would say that he would save money by not buying soda stream canisters, nice olive oil and vinegars, Mexican vanilla, pomegranates, red bell peppers...
  14. Were passports required or simply a photo id? It has been about 1 1/2 years since we have been in Rome, but we did not need our passport with us to enter sites.
  15. He probably does not need to take his passport with him while he is out and about. An around-the-neck or waist passport holder can conceal valuables. I have directed study abroad programs for over 30 years and have never had a student who had valuables in a concealed passport holder have them stolen. But, young people usually resist using them. An althernative is clothing with zippered front pockets (either shirts or pants). A spare credit/debit card, and extra cash should be kept there (along with the name and address of where they are staying). I suggest keeping pocket money in a more accessible place away from the "safety" stash. First, if you are pickpocketed, they don't get everything. Second, you are not flashing everything you have whenever you go to make a purchase. Wait until within a store or some place more secure than the street to move cash from the safer place to more accessible spending pockets.
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