Re: Nominate Your Landlord

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I had a landlord once who was in my community's " landlord hall of shame " .

She was basically the cheapest landlord that I had ever seen, she drove a

Mercedes 450 SEL around, owned many, many million dollar apartment buildings

and basically, was a slumlord. She would go on vendettas against tenants if

they complained about conditions to the city.

As an example of her attitude, she claimed that she could not afford light

bulbs for the hallways of her buildings. People would often find that the

bulbs had burned out and they would remain dark until a tenant replaced one

themselves. The managers would only last a short time because she was always

firing them or they would quit.

She was a real piece of work.

There was a city office that deals with rental properties and they were kind

enough to give me a printout of all the problems that they had had with her.

It ran to around 250 pages. Back then those kinds of offices had the old

style dot matrix printers and if they printed too many pages in a row they

would shut off for a while because of a thermal overload.

The people at the rentals office joked with me, saying that they didn't want

to do that again because their hardware couldn't handle it!

She was famous for being so incredibly evil. Sort of a Cruella DeVil of

landlords.

Even her commercial tenants were incredulous about her irresponsibility.

When I moved out of there, I was so happy.

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Darlene <darlenesb2000@...> wrote:

> town launches 'Landlord Hall of Shame'

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> 2:36 PM EDT, October 15, 2008

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> town Mayor Ed Pawlowski launched a program today aimed at drawing

> attention to city landlords who let their property deteriorate.

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> The program is called the Landlord Hall of Shame, and its first inductees

> were Adam and Ira Thor, two brothers who reside in New Jersey and own at

> least eight properties in the city.

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> Link:

> http://www. mcall. com/news/local/all-shame-1015cn,0,6629405. story

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