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We sprayed a tenant’s suite for cockroaches, <\/strong><\/span>and it didn’t work.\u00a0 The tenant wrote a letter demanding we do it again, and if we didn’t, she would put her rent in escrow.\u00a0 She worked at a law office.<\/p>\n We sprayed again.\u00a0 Then we sprayed the whole building.\u00a0 About a thousand dollars’ worth of spray.<\/p>\n She still had bugs.\u00a0 So she called the city building department, which sent out its newest, most gung-ho inspector, who decided we needed to point the chimney and plane the boiler-room door in the basement, and fix up everything in between.<\/p>\n Then she complained again.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n So we brought in our cockroach “bomber” guy, who zapped her apartment, including a direct hit on her coffee maker. A dozen cockroaches scampered out.\u00a0 She had gotten a used coffee maker from her boyfriend.<\/p>\n That roach-infested coffee maker set me back $2,000.<\/p>\n I planned not to renew her lease, but she told me she was not renewing her lease before I could tell her I<\/em> was not renewing her lease.<\/p>\n That bugged me.\u00a0 Her boyfriend annoyed me too.\u00a0 As did her 20-pound bond, legal stationery.\u00a0 She wasn’t even a lawyer.<\/p>\n On move-out day, she and her boyfriend<\/strong><\/span> put the mattress and air conditioner on the treelawn.\u00a0 I had to move the items to the dumpster.\u00a0 Mattress moving is seriocomic wrestling; A\/C pick up is clean and jerk.\u00a0 And I didn’t deduct anything from her deposit.<\/p>\n She was OK.\u00a0 Her only major negative: that she had dropped a dime (X 20,000) on me.<\/p>\n —- We sprayed a tenant’s suite for cockroaches, and it didn’t work.\u00a0 The tenant wrote a letter demanding we do it again, and if we didn’t, she would put her rent in escrow.\u00a0 She worked at a law office. We sprayed again.\u00a0 Then we sprayed the whole building.\u00a0 About a thousand dollars’ worth of spray. She […]<\/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-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landlord-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8564,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions\/8564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTreelawn, <\/em>two paragraphs above,<\/em> is Cleveland talk for the grass strip between the street and the sidewalk.\u00a0 Odder:\u00a0 Akronites — Akron, Ohio, residents — call the treelawn the devil strip.
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