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There are two kinds of musical chairs:<\/strong><\/span> the party game, and when tenants move from suite to suite within the same apartment building.<\/p>\n Typically, the tenant wants to step up from an efficiency (studio) to a one bedroom.\u00a0 If you don’t let her, she’ll move out of the building entirely.\u00a0 But if you do let her move across the hall, you have to decorate two apartments \u2014 the one she’s moving out of, and the one she’s moving into.<\/p>\n Do it.\u00a0 Better than losing her.<\/p>\n And make sure the security deposit <\/strong><\/span>is brought up to the new rent level.\u00a0 You never know, she could go ape-wire with new wall colors.\u00a0 You can paint with neutral colors <\/em>has many interpretations.\u00a0 Tenants will not willingly use antique white.<\/p>\n I had one tenant who moved across the hall and left behind a pile of pizza boxes with maggots all over his pepperoni.\u00a0 Luckily his new unit was close enough we had leverage to get him to clean up the old place.<\/p>\n Musical chairs \u2014 the bar mitzvah variety<\/strong><\/span>\u2014 is fun. \u00a0If you’re doing a job \u2014 any<\/em> job, no matter how lowly, do it . . . blah, blah.\u00a0 Yes, we’re glorified baby sitters, but we’re good glorified baby sitters.<\/p>\n For musical chairs we play everything from “Wipe Out” to “Moshe Emet” (Moses Told the Truth).\u00a0 We try to rig the game so the bat mitzvah girl can win. Never stop the music when the kid is rounding a corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are two kinds of musical chairs: the party game, and when tenants move from suite to suite within the same apartment building. Typically, the tenant wants to step up from an efficiency (studio) to a one bedroom.\u00a0 If you don’t let her, she’ll move out of the building entirely.\u00a0 But if you do let […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer","category-landlord-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","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=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8996,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/8996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}