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Nov. 20th, 2007 11:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickAt work yesterday, we turned on the water to see if the pipe that I'd screwed through (when putting down the plywood flooring) was not-leaking, something that we'd like to check before we put the floor back on top of the pipe. The water came running out of the side of the furnace at a hell of a clip. Not good. Today, we got Jonesy to look at it. It's cast. He brazed it (instead of arc welding) but said that he couldn't promise a whole lot. I have no idea how just the furnace could freeze-n-break when the rest of the pipes in there are just fine as is the other furnace. We're waiting until tomorrow to re-test the furnace for leaks.
The people at 216, front, are trying to heat their apartment with electric space heaters. They have a perfectly good gas furnace and their gas is hooked up and turned on. (These tenants turn the gas on because their hot water heater is gas-fired. No gas, no hot water. This is about the only way to make people get the gas turned on.) As you might reasonably expect, their living space isn't wired for electric space heaters. They keep popping the breakers. (The breakers are in the basement. The tenants do not have access to the basement. I did not make the apartments like this.) This most recent time, we had a small talk about the fact that homes DESIGNED for electric heat have heavy breakers for each room's heat that are NOT the breakers for the electric outlets in the room and that THEIR APARTMENT had little wee outlet breakers that WERE NOT DESIGNED for electric heat. The upshot, I said, was that trying to heat the apartment with electric space heaters would continually pop the fucking breakers. *sigh* I've given this talk enough times that perhaps it should be a pre-printed handout.
I also got a call from the Rent-A-Center guy because he wanted to know if we could let him into another tenant's apartment so that he (the R-A-C guy) could repo the fridge. I'm not real sure what the legality of that would be but it doesn't seem like a real swell idea. If the Rent-A-Center guy really is allowed to get the fridge back, he'll be able to get official paperwork and whatnot such that we can tell he's really allowed. I figure it's like with apartments. I can't just change the locks while the tenant is out and tell him or her to get stuffed. There are forms to file and hearings to have and lots of crap before I get to show up with Melvin and throw the tenants out. I bet that rental repo is like that, too. So, not being of any help to the Rent-A-Center guy. More interestingly, why the fuck is deadbeat tenant RENTING a fridge when the apartment CAME WITH a very nice fridge included? (I had to move it out, I did, because "Tenant had his own." He didn't have his own fucking fridge. He was RENTING a fridge... and does not, it would seem, have the money to be doing that.)
I also don't have a fucking clue about commercial evictions but we have no money from that fucking Jennifer who rented the store. I seem to recall objecting to Jennifer on the grounds that we would be seeing zero dollars from her, but the store was rented over my objections and left as a mess for me to deal with while someone went off to vacation. So now she's there and not paying us any money. Big surprise there, ne? On the plus side, the pipes won't freeze because we unhooked them and told her that we unhooked them "as a precaution" because winter was coming on and she hadn't hooked up the gas yet. So she called the gas company and set up a pressure test and whatnot in what I thought was an amazingly short period of time for a commercial property. I took the liberty of mentioning that this was a commercial rental (and not a residential rental) when the gas company person came out to do the pressure test. Upon discovering that it was a commercial property, the gas company demanded a three hundred dollar deposit from Jennifer. Since she didn't have three hundred dollars, Jennifer told them to get stuffed. She then called our office wanting to know if we'd turn the water back on if she promised to heat the building with electric space heaters . (No.) And she asked what she'd have to do to get the water hooked back up. We told her that she'd have to have the gas turned on. And then we inquired about the rent money and she said, "Next week I'll be in to pay." Since this is the third consecutive week that Jennifer has told us she would pay us next week, I'm starting to doubt her veracity. Also, she was crying on the phone to M... but she was crying at Bingham's when I evicted her last winter. Her tears do not move me but I do try not to laugh because that'd probably piss her off. Anyway, should anyone come home from vacation and should Jennifer (or Alecia or Jamie or any other undesireable) try to work things out, the answer should definitely be "No, don't want to play with you any more, you fucking deadbeat piece of shit." Perhaps I'll get an office teleprompter to prevent this sort of problem in the future.
The people at 216, front, are trying to heat their apartment with electric space heaters. They have a perfectly good gas furnace and their gas is hooked up and turned on. (These tenants turn the gas on because their hot water heater is gas-fired. No gas, no hot water. This is about the only way to make people get the gas turned on.) As you might reasonably expect, their living space isn't wired for electric space heaters. They keep popping the breakers. (The breakers are in the basement. The tenants do not have access to the basement. I did not make the apartments like this.) This most recent time, we had a small talk about the fact that homes DESIGNED for electric heat have heavy breakers for each room's heat that are NOT the breakers for the electric outlets in the room and that THEIR APARTMENT had little wee outlet breakers that WERE NOT DESIGNED for electric heat. The upshot, I said, was that trying to heat the apartment with electric space heaters would continually pop the fucking breakers. *sigh* I've given this talk enough times that perhaps it should be a pre-printed handout.
I also got a call from the Rent-A-Center guy because he wanted to know if we could let him into another tenant's apartment so that he (the R-A-C guy) could repo the fridge. I'm not real sure what the legality of that would be but it doesn't seem like a real swell idea. If the Rent-A-Center guy really is allowed to get the fridge back, he'll be able to get official paperwork and whatnot such that we can tell he's really allowed. I figure it's like with apartments. I can't just change the locks while the tenant is out and tell him or her to get stuffed. There are forms to file and hearings to have and lots of crap before I get to show up with Melvin and throw the tenants out. I bet that rental repo is like that, too. So, not being of any help to the Rent-A-Center guy. More interestingly, why the fuck is deadbeat tenant RENTING a fridge when the apartment CAME WITH a very nice fridge included? (I had to move it out, I did, because "Tenant had his own." He didn't have his own fucking fridge. He was RENTING a fridge... and does not, it would seem, have the money to be doing that.)
I also don't have a fucking clue about commercial evictions but we have no money from that fucking Jennifer who rented the store. I seem to recall objecting to Jennifer on the grounds that we would be seeing zero dollars from her, but the store was rented over my objections and left as a mess for me to deal with while someone went off to vacation. So now she's there and not paying us any money. Big surprise there, ne? On the plus side, the pipes won't freeze because we unhooked them and told her that we unhooked them "as a precaution" because winter was coming on and she hadn't hooked up the gas yet. So she called the gas company and set up a pressure test and whatnot in what I thought was an amazingly short period of time for a commercial property. I took the liberty of mentioning that this was a commercial rental (and not a residential rental) when the gas company person came out to do the pressure test. Upon discovering that it was a commercial property, the gas company demanded a three hundred dollar deposit from Jennifer. Since she didn't have three hundred dollars, Jennifer told them to get stuffed. She then called our office wanting to know if we'd turn the water back on if she promised to heat the building with electric space heaters . (No.) And she asked what she'd have to do to get the water hooked back up. We told her that she'd have to have the gas turned on. And then we inquired about the rent money and she said, "Next week I'll be in to pay." Since this is the third consecutive week that Jennifer has told us she would pay us next week, I'm starting to doubt her veracity. Also, she was crying on the phone to M... but she was crying at Bingham's when I evicted her last winter. Her tears do not move me but I do try not to laugh because that'd probably piss her off. Anyway, should anyone come home from vacation and should Jennifer (or Alecia or Jamie or any other undesireable) try to work things out, the answer should definitely be "No, don't want to play with you any more, you fucking deadbeat piece of shit." Perhaps I'll get an office teleprompter to prevent this sort of problem in the future.
