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Garbage men and coin-op laundry<\/strong><\/span> men<\/strong><\/span> . . . the biggest sleazeballs.<\/p>\n Particularly coin-op guys. \u00a0Some of these men are descendants of mobsters. \u00a0(Landlords use coin-operated washers and dryers in apartment laundry rooms.)<\/p>\n I got locked into a 20-year contract with a coin-op guy and could never get out of it.\u00a0 The opt-out clause was to send a certified letter 60-90 days in advance of expiration, with a $2 ochre stamp with sprinkles on it, or something.<\/p>\n Contracts \u2014 with my band and in real estate <\/strong><\/span>\u2014 they’re basically worthless.\u00a0 If the client is a creep, you should figure that out in advance.\u00a0 (Easier said than done.)<\/p>\n An upholstery-shop owner told me he was going to rent forever and die there, and then he bailed in two years.\u00a0 He left several truck loads of stinky, stained foam in the store.<\/p>\n Immigrant storeowners, that’s what I often deal with.<\/p>\n The Korean man is raising his kids at the dry cleaners.\u00a0 Maybe he has beds in the basement.\u00a0 One of my Chinese guys put a shower in his basement.\u00a0 I caught him but let it go.\u00a0 Against city code.\u00a0 He said he was a descendent of\u00a0 nobility.<\/p>\n A lot of foreigners say they’re nobility.<\/strong><\/span> One man from Azerbaijan had a last name with 17 letters in it.\u00a0 I told him to change his name.\u00a0 He didn’t like that.\u00a0 He said he was royalty.<\/p>\n My father changed his name in 1941 from Soltzberg to Stratton.\u00a0 He couldn’t get a job even though he was a Phi Beta Kappa chemistry grad from Ohio State.<\/p>\n Immigrants, in negotiations they’ll bring their wives and \u00a0kids \u2014 whatever it takes to get a low-ball price on a lease.\u00a0 The archetypal Korean wife . . . ballistic – basically histrionic – in negotiations.\u00a0 But once the lease is signed, the Koreans are golden.<\/p>\n —-<\/p>\n Tomorrow:<\/span><\/p>\n WHERE HAVE ALL THE FAMOUS PEOPLE GONE? . . . About Harvey Pekar, Flory Jagoda and LeBron James<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Garbage men and coin-op laundry men . . . the biggest sleazeballs. Particularly coin-op guys. \u00a0Some of these men are descendants of mobsters. \u00a0(Landlords use coin-operated washers and dryers in apartment laundry rooms.) I got locked into a 20-year contract with a coin-op guy and could never get out of it.\u00a0 The opt-out clause was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landlord-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8877,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/8877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}