{"id":370,"date":"2009-06-27T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=370"},"modified":"2012-03-26T17:56:34","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T21:56:34","slug":"shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/27\/shock\/","title":{"rendered":"SHOCK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>The electric company used to be my favorite<\/strong><\/span> utility.\u00a0 They rarely raised rates, and I knew how to get a live person quickly on their phone system.<\/p>\n<p>Then the electric company jacked up their rates 10-fold in one day. I was paying $3.50\/month for a vacant store.\u00a0 Now it&#8217;s $35.<\/p>\n<p>So I told the electric company to shut off the power at my vacant stores, and I told my building mangers to buy the biggest flashlights they could find.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Vacant stores . . . I&#8217;ve seen them<\/strong><\/span> in Phoenix and Boca Raton, Fla., too.<\/p>\n<p>I used to lament I didn&#8217;t have all commercial stuff.\u00a0 Commercial,\u00a0 you just collect the rent, nothing to it. \u00a0Commercial tenants are not drunks, druggies or nuts. \u00a0Now I&#8217;m glad I have a mix of residential and commercial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The electric company used to be my favorite utility.\u00a0 They rarely raised rates, and I knew how to get a live person quickly on their phone system. Then the electric company jacked up their rates 10-fold in one day. I was paying $3.50\/month for a vacant store.\u00a0 Now it&#8217;s $35. So I told the electric [&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-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landlord-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","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=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8801,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/8801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}