Real Music & Real Estate . . .

Yiddishe Cup’s bandleader, Bert Stratton, is Klezmer Guy.
 

He knows about the band biz and – check this out – the real estate biz, too.
 

You may not care about the real estate biz. Hey, you may not care about the band biz. (See you.)
 

This is a blog with a gamy twist. It features tenants with snakes and skunks, and musicians with smoked fish in their pockets.
 

Stratton has written op-eds for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Washington Post.


 
 

TWO UNITS

by Bert Stratton

1.  A slob tenant wanted a spiffed-up bathroom. My drywall man said to me, “The guy ain’t did his dishes in years, I mean holy shit, and he’s bitching about his bathroom falling apart?”  We fixed up the tenant’s bathroom and hauled away a couch and chair too.

2. A tenant wanted free rent because we were digging a trench in his apartment. In order to install a condensate return line to the boiler, our plumber dug a four-foot trench through the tenant’s kitchen, dining room and living room.  It looked like WWI. That was a bad scene and it lasted  a month. The tenant got the free month’s rent.

two bad units

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Here’s a top-quality article I wrote for  City Journal.  “Gotta Serve Somebody.”

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3 comments

1 Ken Goldberg { 03.09.16 at 11:07 am }

It does sound pretty miserable. Or you could have treated him to a month’s stay at the Ritz-Carlton. With the first tenant, I hope you at least gave him a Jacuzzi.

2 Dave Rowe { 03.10.16 at 2:04 am }

Here’s hoping the rent isn’t exorbitant – word is it’s supposed to be approximately one third of the tenant’s income.

3 Brian Flaherty { 03.12.16 at 2:13 am }

Who is gonna take away their License to steal!
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