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An employee<\/strong><\/span> showed a lot of butt cleft when he waxed floors, alienating some of the more fastidious tenants.<\/p>\n I hired a building manager who drove too often to Detroit.\u00a0This was before cell phones.\u00a0I couldn\u2019t reach him half the time.<\/p>\n Another building manager grew up in Hough, back when that neighborhood was classy. Her family had boarded Nap Lajoie, the Hall of Fame baseball player. She said to me, \u201cWe had the elite in my neighborhood.\u00a0No mongrels, like from PA.\u201d\u00a0Her husband was from PA.<\/p>\n There was a manager who rarely cleaned the building. A tenant taped a note up in the vestibule: \u201cThis building is a mess.\u201d Other tenants added to the note: \u201cVacuum the halls\u201d . . . \u201cTake the tree down, Christmas is over!\u201d . . . \u201cTrim the shrubs.\u201d<\/p>\n There was<\/strong> <\/span>a building manager whose vacuum sweeper was always outside her door but she never vacuumed.<\/p>\n An employee threatened to kill me.\u00a0He dated a tenant, a problem tenant — a transvestite prostitute. When I fired him, he said he would hunt me down.\u00a0Luckily, he didn\u2019t know his way around the East Side, where I live. (The East Side has curved streets.)<\/p>\n One employee regularly asked for loans because her husband took her money and blew it at the racetrack. He was a hard worker, but a gambler.<\/p>\n There was a building manager whose kids were thieves. One day I asked the manager where her son was, and she said, \u201cHe stepped out to shop.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhere to?\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMarion.\u201d The Marion (Ohio) Correctional Institution. When her son returned from Marion, he burglarized an apartment in the building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An employee showed a lot of butt cleft when he waxed floors, alienating some of the more fastidious tenants. I hired a building manager who drove too often to Detroit.\u00a0This was before cell phones.\u00a0I couldn\u2019t reach him half the time. Another building manager grew up in Hough, back when that neighborhood was classy. Her family […]<\/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-27525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landlord-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27525","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=27525"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28028,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27525\/revisions\/28028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}