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Originally Posted by Jim B.
Greedheads like that who speculate, flip houses, and try otherwise to game the real property system deserve everything bad they get.
Shady lenders,(institutional and others) mortgage brokers, offshore investors deserve the same.
Sometimes when you engage in all that fancy footwork, you wind up tripping.
Could be a little Karma, going on, too.
If she gets caught, she will need a good attorney fast, and they don't come cheap.
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I can understand it sounds a bit cheap but she's actually a pretty kind landlord (like, Grateful Dead speak, mannn). So far, everything a tenant has wanted, she's given it to them. Like one current job I'm doing, the previous owner put a small washer dryer in one corner of the kitchen (?!) and then just vented the dryer air towards the ceiling (double ?!). She wants me to vent it outside and while I was talking to the tenant, he said that a range exhaust hood would be nice (older house -- 5 unit giant house in the hills on a quiet street behind the U Cal stadium). Up til now, they had a fan that fit into the window frame with the window opened. Not optimal.
I ran it by the landlady, saying I could use the same exhaust port in the wall (middle floor of 3 stories) and put in a few more cabinets to hang the hood from and one on each side, as the kitchen only has one wall cabinet (more !?) and it's a 3 bedroom.
She said 'fine, don't get a cheap exhaust hood -- go quality.' Plus, every tenant of hers I've worked for loves her -- she's accomodating but no pushover.
She says since her husband died, she's losing money on some of her properties and it's got her a bit freaked out.
I'm going to print out these replies and show them to her, editing anything I might have said that's less than utterly polite.
And, BTW, thanks.