Landlord stories

[t walgamuth]

Yesterday the Mrs. and I met our #3 lovely daughter and her family at Turkey run park and camped next to each other and hung out. About threeish I got a call from one of my tenants. He was stuck in the elevator. In fifteen years of owning the building this has happened very few times....I'd say less than five.

I called my brother and he was there doing some other things so I asked him to try calling the elevator from other places as once or twice this worked and the elevator started working again. No such luck. I called the company who does regular maintenance on the elevator and their nearest guy was on the south side of Indy and would take about an hour and a half to get there.

So I called my tenant back and said sorry but it would be a while before I could have him out.

The elevator guy called me back when he got my tenant out and again when he had fixed the problem (something made the governor shut down everything as it was trying to run too fast). No problemo he said all is good now.

it'll probably cost me at least $500 for the trip on a weekend.

As a humorous aside I had a female tenant complain because her apartment has five different light bulbs required (there are three actually). She also said her bulbs were blowing out too soon (as if that is my fault). I told her sorry, but she probably should buy higher quality bulbs.

This is the same gal who moved in and never had the electricity turned on in her name but the previous tenant failed to have it turned off in his name for nearly two months. Naturally the electric company shut it off on a friday afternoon so she could not get power til the next week and lost some food in her fridge. She acted like it was my fault because I did not tell her she had to turn on the electricity in her name.....she said she thought it was included in the rent (though the lease very clearly states it is her responsibility).