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beachaholic
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Westfield, IN
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Karen - These are SOOOOO true!!!
My older brother OWNED a small ~20 unit apartment building in New Jersey for a while. He shared many of the same types of stories. but whan it's all said and done, he compared it to owning a boat... First day of ownership: happy, happy - joy, joy - happy, happy!!! Second day to next to last day: head ache, heart ache, spend (more) money, head ache, heart ache, spend (more) money, repeat... Last day: happy, happy - joy, joy - happy, happy!!! |
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04-16-2007
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aņejo
 Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 21,148
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Ms Fix it !!!!
Karen - this is too funny.
  Even though I know it was not funny when it was all happening to you.  I just want to know if you have one of those big leather tool belts that you sling around your hips when you make your "super" calls !! I know you are so looking forward to buying a home soon !! 
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04-16-2007
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aņejo
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: South Shore of Baahhstun, Massachusetts
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 Sorry, Taps. No tool belt. But I do have two toolboxes - one for all the big stuff and one for the needed-more-often stuff. But usuallly I grab a plastic bucket and load it up with whatever I'll need for the task at hand (i.e. tools, cleaning supplies) and a pad/pencil to write down the stuff I forgot! Yeah... gotta get to house-hunting so I can put all these "skills" I've had the opportunity to practice on this place to work on my VERY OWN no-tenants-anywhere digs!
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aņejo
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: South Shore of Baahhstun, Massachusetts
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aņejo
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Mid Mich
Posts: 4,250
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Interesting stories Karen. So I guess you were just a "Cat Lady" before you took over the rentals. ie. "Crazy Cat Lady". Tammy's mother has ran a 200 unit mobile home park for 30 years. She's got some great storys too. The latest was the guy that got arrested for making pipe bombs in his kitchen. Whenever I talk about buying a rental prop. it gets vetoed real fast.
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aņejo
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: South Shore of Baahhstun, Massachusetts
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 And isn't "Pearl" a perfect name for what you figured would be an old, b*tchy woman landlord??!!!Will Ferrell is one of my favorites. Just saw "Elf" last fall for the first time. You just can't help but LOVE that guy!
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04-16-2007
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aņejo
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 5,040
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That movie came out years ago!  Susan and I are big Will Farrell fans too (especially Elf). We go around quoting the movie all the time. Like when Buddy is leaving the north pole and Mr. Norwal comes up and says, "Byyyyyyyye Buddy....Hope ya find yur daaaad!". Sometimes when we leave the house, we say that to Hunter (our dog). or some times i'll say "that's re-DICK-u-luss" [when Santa tells Buddy that there are, in fact, people that don't believe]. There were also several presents under the tree this past Christmas for "someone special" |
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04-16-2007
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aņejo
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Atlanta, GA
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I've also been meaning to write about our last landlady (and I guess rental house too). To protect the [guilty] [innocent] <--not sure which-you decide, we'll call her "J".
This was in July of 2005, about a month before our wedding. We were running around like headless chickens trying to get everything ready. We went over to meet J and see the house. J was probably around 75, who tried to look like she was 30. She had obviously had several surgeries. We looked through J's house. It wasn't the nicest, had old windows, wiring, ugly paint, but it was a in a GREAT location for a GREAT price. We thought for a couple days and decided to sign. So we met up about a week later to sign the lease and hand over the deposit. My mother had decided to join Susan and I just for another opinion. As we were standing there, I was signing the deposit check and the women were engaging in small talk. The small talk paused for a moment, when J said, out of the blue, "Well, my best bra broke...Y'all know a good seamstress or some place i kin git it fixt?" Susan replied, "Well, can't you just go buy a new one" J responded, "No, they just don't make them like they used to." Mom and Susan were speechless. We had known J for less than 15 minutes and yet she confides in us that her necessary irreplacable undergarment has let her down. Meanwhile it took all I had to not bust out in painful laughter. Turns out that I was so moved by her comment that I inadvertently wrote "$1275" and "One Thousand Seventy-five and no/100" on the deposit check, which meant she couldn't deposit it. I did remedy the situation and send her a new one after she pointed it out. With all this said, JL was (is) the nicest lady. While the house reaaly was a dump, was very easy going and always willing to help us out when we needed it. |
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life=playa
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New York City
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I have never been a landlord (thank goodness), but reading your list, Karen, I now understand why many of my past landlords seemed pleased to keep me as a tenant -- often without increasing my rent for years. A little common sense and courtesy: pay your rent on time and keep things reasonably clean. Simple! Now I "own" a co-op apartment. At least with a landlord there is usually only one person to have to wrangle with. With a co-op there is a board, a "sponsor," a management company and a once-a-year shouting session when we shareholders get together to dish out the misery and blame. Then we elect a few replacements for those we are cursing and the replacements represent us for the upcoming year so we'll have a fresh set people to bash at the following year's shouting match. [sigh]
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