On 2 Jun 2004 09:52:12 -0500, Dave wrote:

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 21:37:36 -0400, "Seahag" said:

Huh????? I pay "X" dollars a month. I'm gonna be out of 'My' slip for 4
days. I would like a friend to use it for 2 days. I'm on personally
metered electric. Where do there "costs" to the landlord come in??

He currently isn't paying you for those 2 days. If he has to pay you for the
two days, that's a cost in anybody's book. If he has no transient to occupy
the slip, there's no cost. If he does have a transient to occupy the slip,
the loss of what he'd get, is a cost. In an accounting sense, I suppose,
it's booked as lower revenue rather than increased expense, but the effect
on his bottom line is the same.

Dave
S/V Good Fortune
CS27

If Haggie is paying for the "use" of the slip for 30 days, then it
seems reasonable that she should have the use of it, to occupy or
allow a friend to temporarily occupy it in her absense. If the marina
is double dipping by charging someone else for time in the slip that
Haggie has paid for, then it seems only equitable that Haggie should
be credited for some/most of the net additional revenue from the
transient "guest". Obviously the slip agreement actually governs what
happens, but it sounds like it was drafted as a greedy "hooray me,
screw you" document.

I don't know how the "personally metered electric" works when a
transient is in the slip. In my case, there is one meter per slip and
I pay for the electric usage. Hopefully Haggie isn't having to pay
for the electricity usage of transients occupying her slip while she
is away while not receiving any credit for the marina's "windfall".

Sounds like Republican policies are behind it