QuickBooks Online 2024. Manage users. Get ready and clear your mind because we don't overanalyze, we intuit, within tuits. QuickBooks Online 2024. Here we are in our Get Great Guitars 2024 QuickBooks Online sample company file we set up in a prior presentation remembering the primary goals as an accountant or bookkeeper include number one creation of the financial statements balance sheet income statement and related reports number two recording facilitating and communicating transactions with those we do business with which includes customers, vendors and employees. When we think about the normal cycle in that process we're usually going to the forms which are located in the new or plus button this being broken out by cycle customer cycle or revenue cycle, vendor cycle or expense or purchases cycle, employee cycle or payroll cycle. 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If you would like a commercial free experience consider subscribing to our website at accountinginstruction.com or accountinginstruction.thinkific.com e-commerce vendors and employees we can do those in the centers on the left the sales revenue or customer center the expenses vendor center or purchases center the employee center or payroll center when we set up a new company file however we have to lay it down the foundation that's what we're doing now most of that is located in the cog dropdown where we have the lists which include the general ledger as well as the item list and under the company area where we have the account and settings which we looked at last night and are now looking at the users so let's go into the users here this is our point of focus the users and the capacity to have multiple people using QuickBooks online is one of the major factors that may affect the type or level or tier of QuickBooks online we want to be purchasing so let's look at that real quickly over here I'm on the QuickBooks online homepage here where we have the comparison between the the simple start the essentials the plus and the advanced so remember when you're thinking about QuickBooks there's two major categories desktop versus online we're here in the online category and then within the online category we've got these tiers or levels which isn't really any difference in terms of what the software is they're just different levels of access in terms of your benefits within it so you're not switching from one software to another for the most part you're just using QuickBooks online you just have access to more features within that system as you go from the simple start up to the advanced it's a pretty easy process to then level up if you want to it's going to be a more difficult process if you start say at the advanced and try to level down due to the fact that QuickBooks has an incentive not to try to have you level down where they do have an incentive to level you up number one and number two you might be using some of these things and therefore when you level it down it's going to be difficult to stop using them if you already had access to them even if they're not essential to your accounting process okay so one of those things are the users so if you had a simple start generally you can see down here the the bold items are the ones that are differentials between the two so this one if we go to essentials you can see that it includes three users where we don't have that over here so that's one of the major differences also we have these other differences that could be impacting one of the other connect three sales channels that would only be necessary possibly if you have like a Shopify store or you're an Amazon seller or something like that multiple currencies that would be if you have more complex transactions where you're where you're receiving money or paying money in different currencies so and then we have the bill management where you're going to be tracking your bills mainly on that'd be like tracking accounts payable and then time entry which might be necessary for job cost type of system but this one is another big one the users now when you think about the users we have this says invite your accountant to access your books control user access levels and share reports without sharing a login in other words if you have multiple people working on quickbooks it would be nice if they could all log in at the same time with their their their log ins so that you don't have to provide the same log ins to log to everyone in and two it would be nice if you can have some control over the amount of things that each individual can see and more advanced accounting systems you would like to limit the control depending on what people do in your business so then if we go from here and also note that the accountant when we have an accountant at the end of the year for the united states at least for tax preparation we would like to be able to invite the accountant into our system instead of generated reports it used to be that we have to generate the reports balance sheet income statement related reports and then ask or answer any further questions from our our accountant that's doing our taxes or financial preparation as they come up it's a lot easier if we can actually give the accountant some access to the software and they can then answer their own questions and I believe the access of the accountant is something different than the number of users so you have three users and then access for the accountant if we go up to the plus which is where we are at then we have up to five users so now we have the accountant and five users capacity and we also have these other things connect all sales channels things like Shopify stores amazon and so on inventory that's the other big one that's the advanced here that we that's why we're using this one in our practice problem and because it's kind of the default or recommended project profitability which is often used in a job cost kind of system and the financial planning create budgets with real-time data you can collaborate with your team and then if you move up to the advanced then you have the includes 25 users so invite your accountant to access your books control user access levels and share reports without sharing a login and then you also have the auto tracking for fixed assets which is a new thing there data sync with excel which is something that could be useful as well if you have a lot of data that you're dealing with employee submit expenses and quickbooks batch invoices and expenses custom access and control so here's the one that kind of goes with the users now if you get more advanced in accounting and you have a larger company you want to limit the use the access to certain users and you have more control over that in the advanced so easily control who sees your data assign work to specific users and create custom permissions then you got the workflow automation data restoration 24 7 support and so on so that's the idea if we go over here we are once again in the cog under the company your company and the users so we have the primary user here and then we have the accountant on the right hand side so if you don't have an accountant that we can add the accountant notice they're separate because basically we think about these as two different things the users being the bookkeepers in essence the accountant then the person you're giving access for support and possibly for a year in tax preparation and financial reporting to financial to finalize your financial statements for external use possibly so an accountant can be your best business partner make it easy to work together invite yours to your quick books so instead of at the end of the year printing out your balance sheets or income statement and so on and then providing that to the accountant and having them come back to you for further reports if they need further reports to do the taxes or whatever it's easier to invite the accountant and allow them the access they need to get the reports they need to do whatever they need to do now if you don't have an accountant you can find a pro it has the finding a pro here you have the location you've got the service provided industry service and here you've you've got select industry and so on just and so that's great but note that when you're looking at quick books for support they're likely to be focusing in on someone who is a quick books expert and when you're thinking about the support in the United States you might also want a tax expert or someone that's going to help you with audits or reviews or bank loans or something like that so those are kind of two different things when you're thinking do i need do i need someone to help me with my bookkeeping if you do that's great then you might use the quick books tool because you're using quick books and you get some kind of support there or some type of assurance that they have met some minimum standards in order to be on the list but you also want to keep them in communication with your tax preparation because that's often one of the primary goals of small businesses to make sure that you're in compliance with taxes and possibly you might need like a cpa firm or something like that an accountant to help you to to compile your financial statements if not review or audit them so that possibly you can get loans or something like that if the bank is requesting that type of thing so keep those two things kind of separate in your mind if you already have a cpa or an accountant make sure if you hire a bookkeeper you keep the accountant in the loop because the end goal is possibly tax preparation and financial statement reporting for year-end purposes and and and if you don't have a tax preparer and you're thinking about hiring someone you might want to think about someone that can cover both of those bases if it was possible all right let's go back on over I'm going to go back on in the company and manage the users so that's the accountant and then on the user side of things we have the ability to add the user so if I add a user let's go ahead and do it so we're going to add a new user personal information you'll send them an invite to join your company with their their intuit account so let's say we have the user here I'm going to say it's going to be I'm just going to say that we have Jane Clark here that we're going to add and then we have the the control permissions for your new user by signing a system rule so you have you can take a look at this for more information if I select the drop-down we've got the company admin you probably only want one company admin which is obviously going to give you the most control you've got the standard access level we've got the standard all access without payroll if you have payroll within the system payroll is going to obviously give a lot of personal information to the employees so then we have the standard limit customers and vendors we got the standard limited customers only standard limited vendors only and standard with standard no access so let's go through a few of these when we click on any of these items it'll give us a summary up top and then it'll give us basically the cycles and the access within those cycles so the sale cycle or revenue or accounts receivable cycle the expense cycle the inventory if you're dealing with inventory lists chart of accounts for example and the item list bookkeeping accounting payroll becomes important if you're processing the payroll within it reports then time tracking commerce go payment app and access and account management so let's take a look at some of these here we go to the full admin if I go to the company admin then the description says users added to this rule can see and do everything because they are the admin so this includes sending money changing passwords and adding users not everyone should be an admin so even if you hire a full service bookkeeper you probably don't want to put them in as admin you might want to have you have you be the admin and then the full purpose bookkeeper if you want to give them as much control then you might send them a standard all access but you can see here if you put them as admin then under the sale cycle here's all the items within it we'll go into them in a little bit more detail but they're gonna have full access of course to all of these areas if they are the admin that's the point of the admin so you probably only want one person as the admin next level down standard all access so users added to this role get full access without admin privileges plus access to payroll payroll being one of those key items do you want to give them access to payroll or not because payroll does have sensitive information within it so if we look at the sales cycle just to get a quick look at these items we have the view create edit and delete of all the forms under the payroll cycle invoices if you're on a cruel system estimates the thing before you create the invoice sales receipts the cash based form for sales typically the receive payments after you create the invoice you receive the payment credit memo someone return something refund receipt then the delayed credit and delayed charges we talked about those forms a little bit more detail in another section we have the expense area we can view create edit delete and then if appropriate we have the approve and pay tabs here as well because we might have an approval process for the accounts payable to be paying something out so we have the bills we have the access to that the payments the bill payments the vendor credits the credit card credit expenses checks full access to print checks and then purchase orders expense claims notice again these columns over here even though there's not any checkmarks you would think that this is the full access here because this is the full access category so these areas aren't applicable would be the general idea or assumption inventory view create edit delete remember that inventory if you're on a perpetual inventory system would be something that you're tracking both in unit and dollar amount as you're entering it although even if you have inventory you might not use a perpetual inventory system if you're tracking inventory outside in which case you would have a periodic inventory system so lists so you have the view create edit and delete lists including employees vendor customers and the currencies and then we have the bookkeeping where you have view edit create edit and delete bank deposits transfer bank transactions rules tags receipts and then we have the the accountant so we have view create edit and delete the chart of accounts that's going to be an important one which is the foundational thing that we usually first set up the register full access register being a way that you can you can get into the activity of a particular account reconciliation primarily bank reconciliation and credit card reconciliation internal control reports journal entries which are often used for period and more i guess complex in some ways or or kind of a different part of the accounting system than what's typically done with just the forms normally which is way the way we want to do normal data input payroll so view and edit the payroll reports so you have full access to the sales expense payroll management custom reports time so for entering time tracking into the system possibly to help with payroll but possibly also to then create invoices then we have access to that additional permissions we have company information access the subscription so that there's where we don't have it there you have the option to basically check these off manage users so that's unchecked off right now there and you have the option to manage the user possibly there as well all right let's go to the next one next we have next standard all access without payroll so now you have full access full access full access full access full access uh but but without the payroll so where's the payroll no access to payroll so if you want to give them everything but you don't want them to actually see the payroll and you keep that on your side that would be the one so we have the standard limit customers and vendors so now we have standard limited to customers and vendors customers being the sales side of things vendors being the the uh the payable side of things or the expense side of things so full sales full expenses uh inventory full access lists full access reports full access time tracking full access uh account management partial access uh here and bookkeeping no access to the bank deposits transfer transfer bank transactions rules tags receipts so you have a little bit more kind of double check that might be a safe way to go or a little bit safer way to go for a bookkeeper so that you keep control over some of these items that are managing more over the actual cash going going in and out and whatnot and and give them access to the other forms and then the accounting you've got the chart of accounts so so you're the one that has access over adjusting the chart of accounts which can be kind of tedious if you're hiring a bookkeeper and whatnot but it might give you some more internal control and then payroll payroll here no access to the payroll all right let's do the next one next one we've got you've got standard limited standard limited customer only so now we're we are restricting only to the customer side which was just on the sales side so now they have full access for the sales side of things inventory full access lists full access reports full access time tracking full access but you can see on the no access we don't have the expenses no access to the bookkeeping no access to the counting and the payroll so so now we're getting into more kind of internal control systems where we're saying i'm only going to give them access to the sales side of things and then we can do the opposite only giving access to the vendor side of things if we have two people working as bookkeepers this might be one way that you could partially separate the internal control so now they have access to the to the expenses the inventory lists reports additional permissions time tracking no partial access to management reports and then no access to the revenue side of things sales bookkeeping accounting and payroll and then if we go down to the the standard standard no access so now we have no access to time tracking partial access to to the account management information for the view of the company information no access to the sales expense inventory lists bookkeeping accounts payroll and the reports okay so let's try to let's go back up to the second level imagining we're picking up a bookkeeper we don't want to make them act admin but we'll go to the second tier down and then of course we can send the invitation so it's going to be sent then to the email and i'm not going to share my thoughts here so it's been sent to the email and now if i go back to the first tab you can see that we have the two people here jane clark has now been invited so we can resend the invite jane clark once they receive the invite hopefully by email will then have a link they can open she can open up the bookkeeper whoever you're sending it to can then open it up and verify it and then have access to the login on their side if we hit the drop down we could of course delete it here as well once they have accepted then we should be able to edit it so once the the the invite has been accepted you'll see the edit field and if we want to adjust the settings within it then we can go back in there and adjust the settings so note that they have kind of updated those options to separate the internal controls versus what they had before to give limited options to people but just remember that if you get into a larger business then you're probably going to want to separate the duties even further and that's when you get into some of this advanced area one of the one of the main things on the advance is one that you have the more users if you have more people that are using the software but also you have more custom access to control and in order to manage who sees what that's one of the major internal controls over larger accounting systems we specialize to people doing specific things and we have more kind of red tape where someone has to have approval processes in place and we limit the views of of people to see only what it is that they're they're specifically focused in on that's just part of the pain it's a pain to do that right but that's just part of the process of of growing to a larger business where you have to spend more time on those internal controls and that's one of the reasons where you might need to level up on a subscription


Hi, I'm Realtor Sara Maro with Cell State Ace Realty. Today on Proper Tea Time, I get to chat with Tom Orlando, owner and managing broker of Housing Helpers. Tom is a certified relocation specialist and a certified specialist of global mobility. Not to mention he's a total problem solver, creative strategist, lover of people, and father of six. Housing Helpers connects people with places. They serve Denver, Boulder, and between and beyond. Tom hails from upstate New York and has owned and operated this awesome company since 2014. He fits right in here in Colorado as he loves skiing, camping, and driving any jeep that he can find. Tom lives in Broomfield, Colorado, and he manages a fast expanding team of 22 people. I know you're gonna find his knowledge and his services useful and engaging. Thank you so much for joining me. Thanks for having me, I'm happy to be here. Awesome, thank you. Let's dive right in, so why don't you tell me a little bit about what Housing Helpers does, what services they provide, and what your role is there. Okay, well Housing Helpers has been around since 1987. We started as a roommate matching service solely, and that quickly grew into apartment locating and just unfurnished rentals locating.  We walk away. And then we started the corporate housing piece, which is furnished, short term, 30 day minimum stays, but average stays about 68 days, I believe. And so, yeah, we started doing the corporate housing piece and we have, I don't know, about 200 units, 180, 200 units right now throughout the U.S., and then about, I'd say it was about 2,000? We started the real estate division. Gotcha, and were you a property manager before that?  Like, tell me about the transition there. We actually never did property management itself, like actual property management, until about three or four years ago. So after you became a sort of real estate services company?  Because we were talking to all these owners and we always just said, no, we don't want to work that angle. Right. So we decided to do it, and it's been good since. It's been great, so.  Pretty much. We're down. Yeah. Well, I know your slogan, and I love it, is connecting people with places. Like, to me, that's so great. It's kind of what us realtors do, but way more so if you're looking at a national, you know, just housing crisis that we're in. You guys do that so much more than any realtor really could. Can you talk about what you love about your job?  Tell me about how that slogan even came to be. Well, what I like about my job, I'll start there, is that I was selling real estate back in the crash of 2007, 2008. Okay. We had all these other housing options for people instead of just buying and selling. So we actually stayed quite busy. What do you mean, we? The agency you were with? The housing hubbers. Oh, okay, you were with them then. Oh, yeah, yeah. I've been with them since 2002, and I worked in our boulder office for 12 years. Then I bought the Denver operation and just last summer, I bought the boulder operation. And is housing helpers nationwide? It's obviously in Denver and Boulder. You obviously send people all over the country with various needs, but tell me more about is it a franchise sort of thing? So it was founded in the Boulder office. Tom Smith is the original founder of the company. He's still involved. There's one other office in Las Vegas, Nevada. Oh. And so the only thing that's truly national is our corporate housing units. We have them from Florida to California. They're all over the place. And we have different models for out of state properties. In Colorado, we tend to master lease the properties for long periods of time, year or two years. We've had some on Pearl Street Mall that are over 20 years we've had them. We master lease the whole building. The ones out of state, we do what's called set up tear down. So we'll set it up for a guest and then as soon as that guest moves out, we will tear it down, take all the furniture out, housewares, lit-ins, TVs, everything. So I've heard about some of these third-party, you know, relocation specialists. You know, they're their own giant company. A giant company sort of like contracts them to relocate their employees and move them around the country. Is that sort of what you do? Or are you more just like a smaller version of that? Like talk to me about what corporate housing really looks like in your world. So those companies are typically who we work with. So if a major corporation hires a relocation management company, that relocation management company's job is to find whatever their package is for that employee. But usually it's a temp housing package and then a home buying package, movers and all of that. We've done that on a small scale. But we haven't, we don't do that normally. That's, we rely on the relocation management companies and they send us their bid requests or buyers and sellers, whatever, you know. So you're more of like an executive, stay short and long-term leasing company versus like a relocation mega crew. Yeah, that's exactly it. And you work in tandem with some of these third-party contractors, some of these major companies. Like who are your clients? Exactly what you said, the relocation management companies are huge for us. The companies come, some of them come direct to us, especially in the broom field area. And so they'll contact us, you know, we've got two employees coming to town for training. They need a month's stay, whatever, and we place in the housing. So that's interesting. So you're more of a, you're like a filler in of the gaps wherever there's a need that's kind of like complicated. Like there's a giant relocation guy and there's an employer and you're sort of the boots on the ground that's gonna help find, it's gonna make it happen. That's exactly it. We are the ones that actually have the housing. I see. So the company, you know, when you used to move, you'd go to HR and HR would help you with all of these functions that we're talking about. Well, HR didn't wanna deal with that anymore in those companies. So they spun it out to relocation management companies and then they put it out. Typically, there's a few platforms out there. There's more and more every day because that's where the market's going. But these platforms, so if Bob Smith is needing to move to Boulder, Colorado, it goes out of platform and then all of the corporate housing companies bid on that platform. I see. Sometimes it's only three to get to Bob, sometimes it's 10 to get to Bob and then Bob picks which unit he wants. Gotcha. So it's not really an HR problem anymore. Correct. They can't really find, I mean inventory's so low they probably can't do it all themselves. You're one of the people bidding on this need. Yep. Okay, I think I follow up. Now are you relocating families and individuals? Sounds like they're mostly employees already with a company or just became an employee of a company. Mm-hmm. And are you moving them permanently? Is it usually a long term, 60 to 100 day lease that they need temporarily? Like talk to me about your clientele. Everybody's different. So some, it depends on the package they get from their employer. Sometimes they're only allotted for a 30 day housing stay and sometimes they can get, usually be seated about 120 on a say a family moving but we also have some that the client needs a year. We have a few clients in, I should call them guests in our properties that have been there for four or five years in furnished housing. Okay. And that's mostly what we do. You don't have a lot of the 30 day, even 60 day. It sounds like these are mostly long term needs. No, most of them are short. Oh. Yeah, there's a few exceptions of the long term ones. I see. We lease them long term and then as that guest moves out, we get somebody else to go in. So you're controlling a lot of properties. You're not owning a ton of properties. Correct. You have a long term lease yourselves. You fill the vacancies with short term needs and then that bidding is sort of, you look at what's available for space and you look at the people that might need it. Exactly. Okay. I think that's all. And most of those are short term which are 30, 60, 90, 120, 180, like. Yep. And a lot of times too, so the relocation management company, we know that that employee is approved for 120 day stay. Well, they only allow us to sign 30 day leases with a 30 day notice to vacate. Oh, got it. So we don't always know our availability but we have a good idea. Got it. So 30 days and then 30 days and then 30 days and you're guessing. Sort of when they're gonna go. Yeah. And we have notes in our systems basically saying approved for 120. To this date. Yeah. Okay, cool. You talked about your team. It sounds like you own most of the company, at least the Colorado Division of this company. Can you talk about how many people work for you? What are they licensed realtors? Are they property managers? How many of you are there and who is your client really? I'm still not clear on that. So the client is the relocation management companies, the platforms and then mom and pop, we get a lot of direct calls and businesses that are in the area that are hiring people and bringing them in. I see. A lot of them just know of us and so they call us direct instead of going through all those different platforms and everything else. So your client is an individual, a company and any channel in between. You really serve a whole bunch of different people who are helping with that one need of the final client or the end user, if you will. Just like you as a realtor, if a company contacts you because of an employee, you're gonna go and tour that person and just from your sphere, you probably have other people as well. Gotcha. It's housing. So it's not specific to a corporation, it's specific to people. Sure, that will be actually living in there and you hear about their needs maybe through their company. Yeah, initially anyway. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. So it's kind of like a lead source really. These third parties, these employers, they lead you to the person who's actually gonna be living in the space. Yeah, and a lot of times we only interact with the platform or the third party and we don't even know who lives there other than their name. Sure, okay. And other times it's just the individual that sort of skips all those other channels. Right. Sorry, I asked about your team and then we diverged because I asked two questions. Can you talk about your team that works for you? So we have 15, we are hiring because I need a few people. We have 15 people now and I'm guessing by the end of 2023, we'll probably be 22 people. 22 people, it's a pretty big crew. It's, we just bought a new office, we moved in there, we set it up for having more people. You know. So you wanna grow. Yeah. You guys are expanding. Especially after I bought Boulder, that was the whole plan. I see. And you think Boulder's gonna be like the headquarters long term for this? We'll always be Boulder, yeah. Yeah, that's why I bought the building. I didn't wanna keep leasing. I see. So. That makes sense. We're permanent. So are you considered, I know you're one of the leaders in this sort of relocation conversation and I know short term rentals is a really hot topic. Like, what is your title?   You know, to be honest, I would say my day is mostly filled with taking care of my employees. I'm big on just touching base with them, making sure that they're happy in doing what they wanna do. I. You're the boss man. I'm the boss man, but I don't act like it. I know this, so I know that. Well, one more question. So like, we touched on this, but like, small businesses, major corporations, mega corporations, like, what are the majority of your clients doing for jobs? And is this, like, are they really just temporarily staying somewhere and then going back home? A lot of them are temporarily staying and until they find something to buy. I see. So we have, we don't always know who's buying and who's staying and who's going and whatnot, but a lot of times there is a lot of opportunity to talk to those clients and guests and help them with their next transition. And it could be that travel nurses, for example, we have a lot of travel nurses and well, they're never going home for the most part. They're always going to a different city. So we have some that have worked with us here in Denver Boulder, that, oh, where are you going next? You know, okay, well, we're going to Texas and so we help them find temp housing in Texas. Okay, so you're very useful for that person because they're just sort of nomadding and you're just constantly helping them with the next job. Yep, yep. Now it's a real, one of the things that we struggle with is like timing, right? Like, what are the chances that the stars are going to align that I close on one property and like that same day or week, you know, their new home is all ready to go? Like we know that that's not as common as we would like it to be in a market like this. So give me an example of like a complicated temporary housing situation that maybe you're just sort of filling in the gap and being the catch on me, where do people go? If it really is just like a couple of weeks or if it is a couple of months. We just actually had that happen where it was a couple and they sold their home in Texas and they were building new construction here in Colorado and Broomfield. And so I told them the best thing to do is when you move, put your stuff in pots. That way you don't have to move it into storage and then back into a truck and back into a new house. It eliminates like that one step. That's correct. And so they pay storage for that, which a client's gonna pay that anyway. And then they move into furnished housing for we have to do 30 day minimum leases. So however long they need, if they need to weeks, we still do a month. We have to do my law. Sure. And that usually cushions them nicely. Like in my experience, they're glad to have 30 days to move twice versus 14. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. So you're saying a lot of times they could be coming from anywhere and your solution often isn't even necessarily their new home. It's a temp house, it's furnished and it's upon. Because that's the way to kind of reduce the amount of work. Yeah. Even for long-term unfurnished renters, same scenario. That house that they really like might not be available yet. So we always have temp housing. We have a lot of realtors that they know of us and they have that exact scenario you were just talking about. Oh, I love that. I mean, when the home is promised to be done in March and it's completed in June, what do you do? You told them to sell in March. They're like, ah, a homeless. I had one house that the woman I was working with was under contract with new construction. They hadn't been ground yet on the house. But she had to list her house within 30 days of the contract. Right. Then you factor in the qualifying expiration for the loan and you factor in just the shortage of homes and the materials.  And everything else is done. They're like, please let my people in. Yeah, I had one that was the stoop in the backyard that wasn't poured. And they couldn't get the certificate of occupancy. Man. Well, I don't have any other questions. I think what you do is awesome. I think you really help us fill in the gaps, both as realtors and as clients and as employees. I mean, there's nothing more exciting for someone than getting a new job in a new city that they really want to be in, but where they're going to live. It's getting harder and harder. And I really appreciate just the creative solutions that your team provides and the forward thinking. Because it's not just about single family home sales anymore. There's a lot where we need to get into it to solve this. Yeah, there's new cranes every day with new apartments. And we handle apartments, but we also have single family homes and townhouses and everything else. So whatever that family or person needs, we usually can accommodate it. That's amazing. Now, the last question I have for you is like, let's say I want to relocate to a certain place. Like I want to move to Michigan. Do you just say, no, I'll refer this out if you have no properties in that area? Or how do you deal with the 50 states? 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So we're talking about propositions. We've already seen propositions. We just finished with categoricals not too long ago, and now we're going to move on to kind of a discussion about other kinds of propositions, especially complex propositions. Now propositions, I think we discussed this when we talked about categoricals, that which is true or false, that's what propositions are, and this is contrasted to terms. Terms are meaning definitions, concepts. Concepts, definitions meaning these are not true or false. It's either accurate or inaccurate. It either defines the thing or doesn't define the thing. Propositions are different. Propositions are what are true or false. Now categoricals are one kind of proposition. We've just seen that, and from here on out, we're going to delineate two main different kinds of propositions, atomic propositions, and complex propositions. Now atomic propositions, it's just a subject and a predicate, specifically a subject described to the predicate. Now this should sound familiar. We just finished with that with categoricals. So atomic propositions are, you know, what we would think of the smallest kind of proposition. You can't break it apart anymore without just not having a proposition anymore. It's a subject and a predicate. You take away the subject, you don't have a proposition, just have a predicate. You take away the predicate, you don't have a proposition mark, just have a subject. So atomic propositions are just the subject and the predicate. It's the building block for all other kinds of propositions. Everything else beyond this, right? It's a complex proposition. It's built out of atomic propositions and some sort of logical connective. So what are our atomic propositions? I said it's a subject and a predicate. We just finished with all kinds of atomic propositions. Well, these two kinds of propositions, atomic propositions, the universal affirmative and the particular affirmative. Now you might ask, well, what about the negatives? They're not atomic. Those are not atomic. You can take them, you can take pieces away specifically from the negation. You can take it away from the negative universals and then you have an atomic proposition. So negatives are not or negations are not atomics. Only the universal affirmative and the particular affirmative. Those are atomic propositions, a subject and a predicate. Complex propositions, as I just got finished saying, are built out of at least one atomic proposition and a logical connective. At least one atomic proposition and a logical connective. Negations are complex. Negation is when you claim that the subject is not described by the predicate. It is not included in the predicate to use the language of categoricals. So to look around here, right, that tree is green. That is a universal, I'm sorry, well actually that'd be a universal affirmative because it's about one. It's a singular, right? Remember that from that discussion? That's a singular subject. But every member of that subject class, namely that tree, is also green. Or at least it has green leaves. That is an atomic proposition as the subject and the predicate quantified in a copula. That tree is not blue. That is a universal negative. Because again we're dealing with one member but all also coincidentally all members of the subject class, namely that tree. That tree is not blue, is a negation. It's a complex proposition. It's a claim that that subject is not a member of the predicate. So we've got two down right away. We've got the atomic proposition and we've got negations. And like I said, all of the complex propositions are composed of at least one atomic proposition and a logical operator. Now at least for our purposes, negation is the only complex proposition with only one atomic proposition. For what it's worth, by the way, you can negate a complex proposition but let's not get ahead of ourselves. So the negation is the only one that requires only one atomic proposition. All the other logical operators, all the other complex propositions require at least two atomic propositions and it could also be for the complex propositions. So the logical operators we have are conditionals, which is an if-then statement. If that tree, right, if that is a tree, right, if that organism is a tree, then that organism is a plant. That's a condition. If that organism is a tree, then that organism is a plant. That's an if-then statement. A disjunction is either or. Either that is a tree or that is a bush. That's one of those two. Either that's a tree or that's a bush. Okay, so that's a disjunction that says at least one of them is the case. Then you have conjunctions. A conjunction is a both and or just and. So that is a tree and that tree is green. I'm gonna put you together. You can have combinations of complex propositions and if that is not a plant, then that is not a tree. That is a conditional of negations. You can have a disjunction of negations. Either that is not a tree or that is not an animal. You can also have a conjunction of negations. That is not an animal and that does not give birth to live young. So there could be more combinations beyond that, right? You can have the component propositions. You can have either one or the other. So if that is a tree, then that is not an animal, right? That's a conditional of one negation. You can have a disjunction with one negation. You can have a conjunction with one negation. You can have a negation of conjunctions. You can have a negation of disjunctions. You can have the negation of a conditional. It goes, and there's a lot, a lot at that point. There's literally an infinite number of combinations, but we're not going to try and list them all because, hey, we don't have the time. One other logical operator, if I got to mention, is if and only if. And that's, you know, that is a plant. If and only if that organism has roots and uses sunlight to produce food. I actually don't know the definition of plant, so I might have to fake that later on. I don't know that at the top of my head. If and only if is quite often used for definitions that we talked about. We might have touched on that when we looked at definitions earlier. Okay, so that is, you know, we got the atomic propositions. We got the negations, which is a complex proposition. So we have the other complex propositions, which begins with a conditional, a disjunction, a conjunction, and then the bike additional, which is really a conjunction of conditionals, but one thing at a time. Now, you know, a question you might have real quick is, well, why do we use one logical operator to form a complex proposition versus another? What's the difference between these logical operators? I'm glad you asked. So I'm going to introduce a concept to you called a truth relation. A truth relationship is a relationship. And we're just going to deal with truth relations between two propositions. We can probably talk about truth relations with three propositions or more, but let's just deal with two and only two propositions. So a truth relationship is a relationship between propositions such that the truth value of one affects the truth value of another or has an impact on the truth value of another. And there's four basic kinds. True makes true, true makes false, false makes true, false makes false. I said they're very fast on panic. The first one is called sufficiency. That's where the truth of one proposition means that another proposition is true. I had one example of this already, right? If that is a tree, then that is a plant. If that organism is a tree, then that organism is a plant. Okay, so it's composed of two atomic propositions. That organism is a tree is one proposition. That organism is a plant is another. And there's a relationship from the first to the second such that the truth of the first means that the second is also true. That's sufficiency. True makes true. The truth of the first means that the second is always true. Now this truth relation pretty much just goes one way. You should just presume that it just goes one way. There are cases when it goes both ways, but let's ignore that for right now, right? Can be the case, but it's not necessary the case that sufficiency runs from the second to the first. So this is the truth relation, right? True makes true. If the first is true, then the second is always true. I'm sorry, it's also true, right? The truth of the first necessitates the truth of the second. If that organism is a tree, then that organism is a plant. So that's one truth relation. The second truth relation strongly related to that, right? Is called necessity, right? Necessity. It's where the error of the first means that the second is also false, right? So false makes false. So if what if it's false that that is a man that that if it's false that that's a mammal. Right? Excuse me. If it's false that that's an animal. If it's false that that's an animal, then it's also false that it's in that it's a mammal, right? If it's false that that's an animal, it's false that it is a mammal, right? So that's false makes false, right? We usually express sufficiency using the conditional, right? If that is a tree, then that is a plant. We also use conditionals for necessity, but we use a conditional of negations, right? So if that is not an animal, then that is not a mammal. If that is not an animal, then that is not a mammal. Sure makes true, false makes false, sufficiency and necessity. And like sufficiency, we're in deal with necessity, right? Necessity pretty much just you should just presume it goes one way, right? It just goes one way. It can go both ways. It's getting ahead of ourselves here, but if one proposition is sufficient for the second and the second is also sufficient for the first, right? Sufficiency goes both ways and in your rare cases, necessity also goes both ways between those two. So sufficiency, true makes true, necessity, false makes false. Then you have contrariety or contrary and subcontrariety or subcontrary. So contrary might be a little bit more familiar, right? What contrary means is that the truth of one means that the second is false, or another way of saying this, at least one is false, right? So that is a tree is contrary to that is an animal. There's nothing that's both an animal and a tree. Somewhere out there, there's a biologist that's starting to fiercely type away in the comment section, but I'm pretty sure that's right, right? There's no animals that are also trees, right? So that is a tree is contrary to that is a animal. Now, I'll be curious to see if somebody finds an example that expands my horizons, right? Usually, we express contrary propositions, or at least in this course, so where we're going to express contrary propositions is using a disjunction of negations, either that is not a tree or that is not an animal. This might sound a little weird to you first. That's because we use disjunctions to express contrary, subcontrary and contradictory propositions, so we don't really differentiate between them in natural language. So that's contrary. That is a tree is contrary to that is an animal, right? At least one of those is false. Okay. Then there's subcontrary. Subcontrary means that the error of one means that the other is true, or another way of saying this, at least one of the component propositions is true. At least one of the component propositions is true. That is either a tree or that's a bush. So if it's false, if that's a tree, then it's a bush. If it's true, if it's false, that it's a bush, then it's a tree. Now, we express subcontrary propositions with just a disjunction. Either that's a tree or that's a bush. Now, again, you're probably thinking, whoa, whoa, whoa, we use disjunction. That could mean that that's, you know, one or the other, but not both, and it could mean that at least one is true in this class. I know natural language gets it all messed up. Natural language is sloppy. It loves to use the disjunction for contrary, subcontrary, and contradictory. But we're using the disjunction for subcontrary. And the reason why is because we don't have to add on a negation to it. Subcontrary means that at least one of the propositions is true. So we don't need to put an negation on it. Contrary means at least one is false. So either that is not a tree or that is not an animal. Those are contrary to each other. So and then contradictory, well, that's when two propositions are both contrary and subcontrary. We're going to leave that alone for a second. We're going to leave that alone for a second. So just for now, we got contrary, we got subcontrary. So that's four truth relations. True makes true, sufficiency. False makes false, necessity. True makes false, contrary. False makes true, subcontrary. Now there's one other thing to keep in mind. With contrary and subcontrary, if two propositions, if one proposition is contrary to a second, the second is also contrary to the first. Contrary runs both directions. It runs both directions. Same thing with subcontrary. Subcontrary, if one proposition is subcontrary to a second, the second is also subcontrary to the first. Subcontrary runs both directions. Sufficiency runs one way. Necessity runs one way. Most of the time. Most of the time. Sometimes it doesn't. But contrary and subcontrary, they always, always, always run both directions. They always, always, always run both directions. So four truth relations, four simple truth relations. There are complex truth relations that we build out of the simple ones. So sufficient and necessary. We put those together, we get equivalent. Contrary and subcontrary together, we get contradictory. If one proposition is contrary and sufficient for a second, then it's impossible. If a proposition is necessary and subcontrary to a second, then it's absolutely the case. That's a lot to lay on. You said just pay attention to the four simple truth relations, at least for now, sufficient, necessary, contrary, and subcontrary. And these truth relations are going to be what determines which logical operator we use. All right, that's what determines which logical operator we use. And I kind of already touched on that, but we'll do it a little bit more in a bit. All right, four truth relations. Let's look at the logical operators a little bit more. Okay, so we have conditions. I mentioned conditionals already. We use conditionals to express sufficiency. A conditional is composed of at least two propositions. And for now, let's just deal with atomic propositions. But it can be like further complex, right? We can have conditionals composed of disjunctions or conjunctions. It gets complex real fast. But let's just deal with atomic propositions for now. So it's composed of these two propositions. The antecedent is one, the consequent is the other. The antecedent is sufficient for the consequent. The antecedent is sufficient for the consequent. So we, there's lots of ways to express a conditional, probably two many ways, frankly. We typically use if then. So if that's a tree, if that's a tree, right, that's a plant. The if indicates the antecedent. Then indicates the consequent. If indicates the antecedent, then indicates the consequent. The antecedent is sufficient for the consequent. We could use only if. That is a tree. That is a tree. Only if that is a plant. Now it's easily confused to say, well the if is there, so that's the antecedent. No, it's only if. Only if. So if indicates the antecedent, only if indicates a consequent. We could have just if, right, and have no indicator word for the consequent at all. If that's a tree, that is a plant. If that's a tree, that is a plant. We're completely living out the then. The if indicates the antecedent. It's kind of implicit that the other component proposition is the consequent. Okay, we could have the if like out of order, right? That is a plant. If that is a tree. That is a plant. If that is a tree. Now it might be confusing because you think, well I got the second part there and you have the if, so that's a consequent. No, consequent is only if. Only if. If you have just if, it's an antecedent. If you have just if, it's an antecedent. Only if is the consequent. Let's see. There's other indicator words. I listed them in the in the reading. So you take a look, study the list. But you know, the really the sure far way to determine this is to figure out, well, which one's sufficient for the other? Which one's sufficient for the other? Okay, so that's conditions. And we use a conditional to express sufficiency from the first to the second. Now here's the thing. The antecedent is sufficient for the consequent. The consequent is necessary for the antecedent as sufficiency and necessity are kind of you can go hand in hand. Now I said earlier, you know, if one proposition is sufficient for a second, it does not not necessitated. The second is sufficient for the first. And that's true. But if one proposition is sufficient for a second, the second is necessary for the first, right? Necessary for the first. So that is a tree is sufficient for that as a plant. That is a plant is necessary for that as a tree. Now we express necessity. And we could just have the conditional and maybe that that does the trick. But one great handy way to express necessity is to use a conditional of negations and a conditional of negations. And that's where you have a thing I've seen the consequent, but you use a negation. Now to do this, so you have to be careful, right? We have that is a tree is sufficient for that as a plant. Remember, necessity is the error of the first necessity means that the second is possible. If that is not a plant, then that is not a tree. If that is not a plant, then that is not a tree. And that tells us that that is a plant is necessary for that as a tree. Another sounds complicated now, but after some practice, we get a hold of it. You'll be all over it. Okay. So we have a conditional and we have a conditional of negations. Now, here's something else. You can also have the negation of a conditional. That's not the same thing as a conditional of negations. A conditional of negations is when you have a conditional and the component parts, the incident, the consequence are also negations. The negation of a conditional is when you have a conditional and the whole thing is negated. So here's a conditional that's, you know, by the way, false, right? If that is a tree, excuse me, if that is a bush, no, that's not, if that, if that's a tree, then that's a bush. That's a false conditional. There's plenty of trees that are not bushes. So we would say it is false that that it is false that if that is a tree, then that is a bush. If that is a tree, then that's an animal. That's also false. Plenty of trees are not animals. Again, the biologist, some biologists out there is fiercely typing what. So you have a conditional if then. You have a conditional of negations, if not, then not. And now we have the negation of a conditional. It is false that if then. Those are, that's going to get you started. You can also have, there's one of the others negated, but we'll get to that a little while, probably another couple of chapters or so. Okay. So that's conditions. Let's look at disjunctions next. In addition to conditionals, we have another very prominent kind of complex proposition, the disjunction. The disjunction is an either or proposition. Either it will rain, which is increasingly look like it's going to be the case, or it will be dry. Either it will rain or it will be dry. That's a disjunction and it expresses what is expressing there is subcontrarity. At least one of those is going to be the case. Either it will rain or it will stay dry. That's a disjunction. At least one of those is true. Okay. So that expresses subcontrarity. The error of one means that the other is true. So if it's false, that it stays dry, then it will rain. And if it falls, that it will rain, then it stays dry. That's disjunction, either or. You can leave off the either. It will rain or it will stay dry. There you go. It will rain or it will stay dry. You can even use unless. This is a weird one, but unless gives us a disjunction. It will rain unless it stays dry. That's an unusual one, but it's an unusual thing to think about, but that's a disjunction. It will rain unless it stays dry. Okay. So that's subcontrarity. That's subcontrarity. Disjunction. We can use a disjunction of negation for contrary. Disjunction of negation is for contrary. So either that is not a plant or that is not an animal. It's true that that is a plant. So it's not an animal. It's true that that's a plant. So it's not an animal. So again, we use the negations with a disjunction to express contrary. To express contrary. You all mentioned contradictory before. That's when two propositions are both contrary and subcontrary. We would actually use, it's getting ahead of ourselves, we would use a bike additional where one of the component propositions is a negation. So that's my way of saying ignore, ignore contradictory for now. But contradictory would, you know, another way to do this, have a, yes, kind of long-handed way of saying this, but it's, you know, or at least one is true and the other is false. It would be a conjunction of disjunctions with identical component propositions. And one of the disjunctions is negations. That's long and complicated. Don't, don't, don't, don't do that. Don't do that to yourself just yet. But I do just kind of want to forecast it. All right. Just kind of forecast it a little bit. Okay. So disjunctions, we have either or, either it will rain or it'll stay dry. We have for, that's for subcontrary for contrary, either that is a plant, excuse me, either that is not a plant or that is not an animal for contrary. All right. So now we, we can also have, by the way, just like we had a disjunction and we've had a disjunction of negations, we can also have the negation of a disjunction. So it's false. Here's one, here's one for you. It's false that either that is a fish or that is a mammal. Right. It's just not the case of at least one of those is true. Right. It's false that at least one is true. That's the negation of a disjunction. And you can even have the negation of a disjunction of negations. Okay. An example escapes me right now. You can. And that, and what that would just be to say is that, you know, the negation of a disjunction negation is just saying that they are in fact not contrary. Okay. That's a lot to take in at once. That's a lot to take in at once. But we got four kinds of truth relations, sufficient, necessary, contrary, subcontrary, and we, and which logical operator reuse is determined by the truth relationship between the propositions, sufficiency is a conditional necessity as a conditional of negations, disjunction is, sorry, subcontrary is a disjunction, contrary is a disjunction of negation. That's a lot to take on at once. That should keep you busy. Have at it. So one last one, that's conjunctions. Conjunctions are, you know, use the phrase both and, right? Both that is a tree and that is green. Both that's a tree and that's green. Actually, I guess it's probably brown. So usually we don't use the both very much, but it comes in handy when we have the negation of a conjunction. So just keep that in mind. Both and both that's a tree and that is covered in bark. How about that? Both that's a tree and that's covered in bark. All right. So conjunction doesn't express the truth relation. Truth relation is when the truth of one affects the truth of the other. Remember a conditional expresses sufficiency, conditional negations expresses necessity, disjunction expresses subcontrarity, a disjunction of negations expresses contrariety. Well a conjunction doesn't express the truth relation at all. If you add just the plain conjunction of two atomic propositions, all this saying is both the atomic propositions are true. Both that is a tree and or that is a plant and it has bark, right? That's what that's doing. You can have a conjunction of negations and that is expressing that both component and homic propositions that are negated are false, right? Both that is not blue and that is not an animal. Both that is not blue and that's not an animal. Here we go. We have a conjunction of negation, just saying that the component atomic propositions are false. That's all it's saying. And then finally we have, you can have the negation of a conjunction, right? It's false that that is a tree and it is blue. It's false that both that is a tree and that and it is blue. And really when you have the negation of a conjunction, it's just saying that at least one of the component propositions is false. Sound familiar? So negation of a conjunction, a conjunction in of itself doesn't express a truth relation, but the negation of a conjunction does in fact express contrariety. Another way to express contrariety. Okay, so you can use both and, you know, just and, right? That is a tree and that has bark. You can have but, right? But, so that is a tree, but it's alive, but still expresses a conjunction. It's not a truth relation. It's just rhetorically speaking not in terms of truth value, but just rhetorically speaking, but is saying this is also true and it's a surprise. It's kind of the idea that is a tree, but it's alive. Let's see. I wonder if we got a good bud around here. That is an ivy, but it has bark. The thing about one right there, I don't know if you can see it's like lacing around the tree. I think that's some kind of, I'm pretty sure that's some kind of ivy and it looks like it's bark on it. There's another one. I could be wrong about that, but maybe that's a good example. That is a tree, but excuse me, that is ivy, but it has bark. That would give us a, that would also be a conjunction. And yet, that's another nice connective and yet. Let's see, what is it? That is palm and yet it's in Texas. It's in San Antonio. This is a swamp and yet we're in Texas. That would be a conjunction. Again, just kind of expressing surprise. Okay. So there's all kinds of ways, there's a variety ways to express a conjunction as well. You have to pay attention to the connective. Again, the text, I give lots of good examples, pay attention to those. So a lot of what you'll be doing is identifying what kind of complex proposition you're dealing with.


Hey everyone and welcome back to yet another Backrooms Level Explanation on the channel. Today I'm going to be going over a Backrooms level that stumps many people and it kind of confuses anyone who gets sent to it. Of course the level in question is level 409 or the paper rooms. If you think that sounds cool, stick around for the explanation and if you don't think that sounds cool, well your parents don't love you. Just get in, let's get into it, shall we? So Backrooms level 409 is classified as a class one difficulty and is safe, secure, and as a very minimal entity count. There's actually just one. The level itself was discovered by User Magic Explores the Web on Christmas Day of 2020, which by the way that was a crazy time, I mean everything was literally insane in 2020. Anyways the level itself is a huge structure of rooms that seem to be made out of paper. The walls, the floors, the roof, everything is made out of paper. But each of those things, the walls, the ceilings, the floors are made out of different amounts of paper. For example the walls themselves are very thin and only are a couple of sheets wide. The floors are thicker though and are made out of a more cardboard material. But with enough force you can run right through the walls or dig right through the floors themselves. The rooms in the overall layout of this level seem to resemble level zero in some certain ways. I mean if you think about it, it's kind of true. The walls here are almost yellow, the hallways go off in different directions and there's non-euclidean and confusing geometry everywhere. The biggest difference is that everything is paper. Now the wallpaper design is kind of different and there's no carpet here since it's all made out of cardboard, but other than that there's not many differences. This level also has an entity which level zero mostly doesn't. But more on that in the entity section of the video. 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It's just even more confusing here on this level because you can already break through walls and floors here but on top of that you add in non-euclidean geometry and it makes traversing it very hard and almost impossible. As I said the floor of this level is made out of a cardboard material and it's only a few sheets thick. It's enough to hold you up and you can walk around without falling through it but you can easily break down through the floor and you'd actually end up in the next level of a 410 and this is the only back rooms level where you can physically break your way into the next one without having to no clip which I thought was pretty interesting. The cardboard on the level is also harvestable and it can be used to create makeshift structures and bases but again more on that later. The entire labyrinth structure of level 409 is bathed in a bright yellowish light that comes from the ceiling above. There aren't any actual light bulbs or anything. It's kind of like the ceiling just glows through the paper and it shines down on the floor below. This bright light causes the shadows in this level to be very erratic and strange and also non-euclidean. The shadows can often be cast in weird directions even though there's not light above them. There could be a shadow there. Some of them also overlap. Some of them are just where they shouldn't be. Overall it's very weird. It's kind of like that one image of the traffic cone from Hawaii where the sun hits it at that exact right spot and it makes it look like it's from a video game or fake. It's that kind of effect here on this level but everywhere. This adds yet another layer of difficulty to an already pretty difficult level to explore. So let me just get this straight. You can break through walls here but the geometry of existence is non-euclidean so you won't be able to go back where you just came from and then on top of that there are bright shadows and a light that makes some areas dark and some random shadows appear. Yeah it's pretty crazy. So I did mention it earlier but the cardboard that makes the floor here can be harvested and formed into makeshift bases and miniature camps and that sort of thing. And this is exactly what the group that's here on the level has done. The group's name is Fort Origami and that's what they've been doing. Fort Origami is the only established group of wanderers here and they've broken down a bunch of walls in a specific section of the level and they've sectioned it all off in a kind of fortress pattern. As far as we know there are 19 people inside of Fort Origami and they actually have an exploration group of around six people that go out to different levels and harvest resources and food and water and bring them back to this level. The reason the members stay here on level 409 is apparently because the level is very simple and safe and calm and a quote from one of the members is that they want to avoid the clutter of other levels. Now as far as entities go there is actually a level exclusive one that lives here. They're called folds and pretty much these are animated pieces of paper that float around the level. They're very non-euclidean and from far off they just look like regular crumbled up pieces of paper floating around. But if you take a closer look you'll notice that they are very intricate and they're perfectly folded pieces of paper. These entities morph and shapeshift like one of those satisfying optical illusions and it's very mesmerizing to look at. The entities have been described as non-euclidean and other worldly and that's just like the rest of the level they blend right in. But the good news is they are completely harmless and have never shown anger or hostility they just float around. They actually seem to be able to have the ability to fix walls and floors that are broken on this level so they're pretty chill. We don't know if they control the level or if they created it we do know that they can fix walls and floors that's it. To enter this level you can be on level 290 and find a cinema hall that's made out of paper. Walk into it and you should be sent here maybe. And to exit you can easily do so by breaking through the floors below you and climbing into the attic of the next level 410. Nice. I think that's so cool that you can get to the next level by physically breaking through it. That's such a cool concept. So to summarize level 409 it is an infinite labyrinth of rooms and corridors made out of paper. The walls themselves are very thin and can be walked right through and the floor is made out of cardboard. The level is very confusing to navigate because of its geometry much like level zero and there is a very strange enigmatic light that comes from above that kind of makes the shadows a weird factor here. Overall the level is safe and it's pretty much fixed up by that entity called the fold that runs around and fixes the walls and floors and it wouldn't be a terrible place to stay if there literally was any stuff here there's nothing there's no supplies or anything and that's why that base has to send out people to get stuff. That was the paper rooms a very weird one that I quite enjoyed it's got that mix of strange but also plausible it's very back roomsy hope you liked it. 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