Not to me , but he has talked about other friends hurting his feelings . He seems to have been able to work things out with them , so I ' m writing an explanation and apology and I guess I ' ll just have to see how it goes . And yeah , my major concern was the I think you think this , I ' m hurt , we ' re not going to talk about it , I ' m going home thing . That is . not a good way of dealing with conflict . <| sep |> I got 6 pairs P <| sep |> This is all pretty good advice , the best of which is to screen your tenants , get a professional screening company too , don ' t try to do it yourself . <| sep |> Not at all . Bernie ' s really a shining example of how politics can and should be done . At 31 he ran for Governor as third party and got like 1 %, ran pretty unsuccessfully for SenatorGov three more times over the next 4 years but he did eventually get up to like 10 %. After his party fell apart , Bernie came back to run for Mayor of Burlington . Dude used his name recognition to set up meeting all across the city , built a solid progressive coalition , got an impressive number of volunteers and won the election by just 10 votes . The rest is history . Dude gradually stepped up his office mayor to House of Reps , to Senate , to now Senate leadership by just doing this same stuff . Working with people to try and make positive changes . Sure , that kind of progressive movement might not be as viable in Texas , but that path of grassroots campaigning could really be done in any state by any person .