{"id":26513,"date":"2019-06-26T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=26513"},"modified":"2019-08-10T18:16:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T22:16:02","slug":"i-rented-to-modigliani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/26\/i-rented-to-modigliani\/","title":{"rendered":"I RENTED TO MODIGLIANI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Brian said <\/strong><\/span>he was good for the rent. He said, &#8220;I\u2019m not like that [a deadbeat]. I pay. I\u2019m an artist. I have $750 tied up in PayPal right now that won\u2019t be released.\u201d His paintings were dark and red like Franz Kline&#8217;s. He didn\u2019t pay and I evicted him. The good news: he paid after the legal hearing, so he stuck around. I said, \u201cModigliani didn\u2019t pay his rent either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe guy who did the long faces?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yep.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Brian didn\u2019t<\/strong><\/span> pay his rent the next month, so I evicted him again, and this time he moved\u00a0 out, and left a wall of splattered paint, like Jackson Pollock. Also, he wrecked the bathroom floor because he never used the shower curtain. He left one painting, which I offered to the building manager.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-26582\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/headache-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"headache\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/headache-300x197.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/headache-768x505.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/headache.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The bailiff bumped into me at the city court and said, \u201cYour tenant knocked over a couple display shelves in Drug Mart and is under psych observation for a couple weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s already out of my apartment,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I told <\/strong><\/span>an employee about Brian. This worker liked to stay up-to-date on horror stories. The employee said, <\/span>\u201cThere are two sides to this. Everybody is mentally ill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe sold paintings in Germany on the internet,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody is a star on the internet. There are two sides.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian said he was good for the rent. He said, &#8220;I\u2019m not like that [a deadbeat]. I pay. I\u2019m an artist. I have $750 tied up in PayPal right now that won\u2019t be released.\u201d His paintings were dark and red like Franz Kline&#8217;s. He didn\u2019t pay and I evicted him. The good news: he paid [&hellip;]<\/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-26513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landlord-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26513","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=26513"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26726,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26513\/revisions\/26726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}