{"id":327,"date":"2009-06-16T07:58:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T11:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=327"},"modified":"2012-03-26T18:20:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T22:20:31","slug":"goodwill-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/16\/goodwill-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"GOODWILL HUNTING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Eviction notices, I buy them by the carton. <\/strong><\/span> I go to court every two months.\u00a0 The deadbeats rarely show up, and if they do, there&#8217;s nothing to talk about.\u00a0 They didn&#8217;t pay the rent; they have to move.<\/p>\n<p>I have a friend who is a nice-guy landlord.\u00a0 He knows all his tenants and sometimes they screw him out of four months&#8217; rent because he&#8217;s so nice.\u00a0 I know another landlord who takes some of his tenants out to dinner.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>At Christmastime I used to buy<\/strong><\/span> chocolates for tenants.\u00a0 Spent over $1,000.\u00a0 I got thank-you notes from 1 percent of the tenants.\u00a0 My dad thought I was nuts.<\/p>\n<p>I used to keep a folder called &#8220;goodwill,&#8221; in case the media phoned and said, &#8220;Can I speak to the slumlord?&#8221; \u00a0\u00a0I&#8217;d whip that folder right out. \u00a0\u00a0Haven&#8217;t needed it yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eviction notices, I buy them by the carton. I go to court every two months.\u00a0 The deadbeats rarely show up, and if they do, there&#8217;s nothing to talk about.\u00a0 They didn&#8217;t pay the rent; they have to move. I have a friend who is a nice-guy landlord.\u00a0 He knows all his tenants and sometimes they [&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-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landlord-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","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=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8840,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/8840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}