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Originally Posted by Silver_Man2
HB.... You are a billionaire giving away endless amounts of monbiez to minorities?
Hardly, but I sure did give a lot of time both working and volunteering. Thing is is that ppl knowing what I did prob think it made me rich but it didn't, not nearly. The best analogy would be to that of a prospector who, for years, kept thinking 'one more hill, I'll just try over that next hill.' W/ us is was 'next year, we'll do good next year.' Don't get me wrong, I made a living, but nothing to brag about. Entire neighborhoods in NYC became gentrified (which is considered a very bad thing in some circles but all it really means is that working ppl moved in), and still are, but not for us. Don't get me wrong, I didn't want to get rid of the tenants on welfare, I just wanted to have tenants that actually paid the rent and I kept praying 'Please, God, send me ppl w/ jobs, anybody, just let them have a job.' And in case anybody thinks that I could've jacked up the rents if working ppl showed up that is wrong bec all of our units had the rent increases set by the City's Rent Stabilization Board.
lol, we had many tenants w/ jobs but not nearly enough. PPL reading this thread should know something that they may have never thought of: You ppl that have jobs and rent do this: You wake up, sit on the toilet, turn on the faucet, brush your teeth, take a shower, get dressed, get something out of the fridge, open the front door and go to work. Come home and the front door opens and closes again, you use the toilet a couple of times, do w/e and go to bed. Tenants w/o jobs are home all day: the faucets are turned on who knows how many times, the front door is opening and closing all day, the shower runs multiple times/day. IOW, the wear and tear is much higher. And even THAT would've been fine if the tenants paid the rent. I had Sec 8 tenants whose share of the rent was 50 cents or maybe $15 and they wouldn't even pay that. I spent God knows how long in NYC Housing Court, the last true outpost of Communists in the world.
Here's another couple of stories: The DA's office started a policy of forcing landlords to evict criminal tenants. If you ask me why I couldn't do it myself the answer is that there is almost NO WAY to evict a tenant in NYC if they pay the rent. So the drug dealers always paid the rent. You might further ask 'well at least you could wait until the lease was up and not renew it.' Nope, all tenants must be offered a renewal. Anyway, one day we get a letter from the DA that says we have to evict a tenant bec bullets came flying from their apartment into the next one and almost killed somebody. They send (or sent if they're still doing it) verifying documents to use. We go to court, the tenant says that it wasn't her fault bec it was her daughter's boyfriend who did it. The judge comes out w/: 'We are Jews. We have to remember that we are Jews and we can't just throw ppl out into the street.' I looked at my Jew lawyer and he shrugged his shoulder.
Another time I had a super that became a drug dealer. He lived w/ his wife who had the lease in her name. She comes to me and says she needs repairs. I say wtf? I paid your husband for years to be the super and he didn't do the repairs that I paid him to do? Plus he's a drug dealer? I'm not going to do it. So she goes to court to force me to do them (I shouldn't have been stubborn since I could never win) and I tell the judge 'Her husband's a drug dealer. What if my workers are in her apartment and other criminals show up to rob the apartment and they get killed?' Pretty good argument, right? So the judge becomes nearly hysterical and yells at me 'You can't hurl baseless accusations like that! You can't prove that her husband is a drug dealer!' So I say 'why don't you ask his wife? She's sitting right here.' So the judge asks 'Is your husband a drug dealer?' and she answers 'Sure, but that's on the corner, not in the apartment.' The judge gets up, leans over the bench, sticks his finger in her face and says 'If his workers get killed in your apartment you're going to be in a lot of trouble.'
loooooooooooollllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So I like to tell stories but they are good ones and you ppl are just going to have to put up w/ them. Check out my B-Day thread, there are more. Ex super was Puerto Rican, btw, in case anybody thinks that I only gave Black ppl a hard time. Heh.