{"id":30929,"date":"2023-09-06T08:29:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=30929"},"modified":"2023-09-28T16:07:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T20:07:04","slug":"a-bad-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/06\/a-bad-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A BAD DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>The tenant<\/strong> <\/span>in 304 was a slob, but still, he liked a spiffy-looking bathroom. My maintenance man said, \u201cHe ain\u2019t did the dishes in years. I mean holy shit. And he\u2019s bitching about his bathroom falling apart?\u201d The maintenance man &#8212; Jim &#8212; repainted the entire bathroom. Jim also moved out a ratty couch and chair. The Salvation Army wouldn\u2019t even take the stuff. It was all stained. I had to pay Jim extra for moving the furniture.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30940\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30940\" class=\"wp-image-30940 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/huebner-edda-2011-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/huebner-edda-2011-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/huebner-edda-2011-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/huebner-edda-2011-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/huebner-edda-2011.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30940\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Generic messy suit and former tenant<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A store tenant called and said Jim got dust on some of her stuff when he did a job there. \u201cThere was dust all over the place, and they didn\u2019t cover my things.\u201d I told the tenant to give me a price. Jim said he did cover her stuff. That was a bad day.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>My plumber<\/strong><\/span> met me in the parking lot across from St. Ed\u2019s High and showed me his monthly bills. He said, \u201cThis is the second highest amount I\u2019ve ever given you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>I got an email from a tenant saying he wanted a month\u2019s free month because I was digging trenches through his apartment. We were putting in an underground condensate return line. Eighty-gauge black steel pipe. We were doing this because the entire building was sprouting leaks from the 90-year-old underground pipes. So we were digging a five-foot \u201cgrave\u201d in the guy\u2019s kitchen, dining room and living room. I told him he\u2019d get the free rent.<\/p>\n<p>The person in apartment 30 called and said he\u2019s getting back with his girlfriend. Oh yeah? He\u2019s out his deposit.<\/p>\n<p>The worst was the letter taped to the storefront door at the Webb Road building: \u201cBurt, it\u2019s landlords like you that give all of us landlords a bad name. You should be ashamed of yourself. Signed, Tom Corrigan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Corrigan rented<\/span><\/strong> a store from me. He ran<em> his<\/em> rental property organization from my building. He had had a leak in his roof. We tried to fix it. I spent a few grand on it. Leaks are a tricky business.<\/p>\n<p>It was a bad day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The tenant in 304 was a slob, but still, he liked a spiffy-looking bathroom. My maintenance man said, \u201cHe ain\u2019t did the dishes in years. I mean holy shit. And he\u2019s bitching about his bathroom falling apart?\u201d The maintenance man &#8212; Jim &#8212; repainted the entire bathroom. 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