{"id":362,"date":"2009-06-25T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2012-03-26T16:28:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T20:28:22","slug":"die-in-this-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/25\/die-in-this-building\/","title":{"rendered":"DIE IN THIS BUILDING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>When you have a dead body in the real estate<\/strong><\/span> biz, go in with the cops.\u00a0 The tip-off is the smell in the hall.<\/p>\n<p>One time a tenant died without any heirs, so the tenant&#8217;s estate lawyer practically begged me to take a few months&#8217; rent.\u00a0 It was free money.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I once put an ad on Craigslist<\/strong><\/span> captioned &#8220;50-year lease available. Die here.&#8221;\u00a0 Craigslist spiked that one <em>pronto<\/em>.\u00a0 My point: the building had three tenants who loved the building so much they had clocked more than 50 years each and were going to go out on gurneys.<\/p>\n<p>Reality check: one-third of tenants move out in a year; one-third move out in 2 years; \u00a0about one-third stay 3-to-8 years; and a minuscule fraction stay longer than that.\u00a0 Doesn&#8217;t matter what you do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you have a dead body in the real estate biz, go in with the cops.\u00a0 The tip-off is the smell in the hall. One time a tenant died without any heirs, so the tenant&#8217;s estate lawyer practically begged me to take a few months&#8217; rent.\u00a0 It was free money. I once put an ad [&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-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landlord-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","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=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8577,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/8577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}