December 23, 2023 • 19 mins
William Lee, the host of the "Old Man Ranting from the Kitchen" podcast, shares his experiences as a property manager in an apartment complex. He recounts a humorous encounter with a potential tenant who arrived with a live chicken and a tarp-covered car. Lee humorously describes the challenges and absurdities of being a property manager, including dealing with unusual requests and navigating the complexities of renting apartments.
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(00:02):
The old Man raving from the KitchenLive podcast. Good evening everyone, it's
the old man, not ranting inthe kitchen, just ranting, and it's
a great pleasure to be with you. Ah. Yes, I've been ranting
out of the Kitchen on Facebook forsome time now, and people keep asking
(00:22):
me different questions about First of all, why are you ranting out of the
kitchen? Well, I got thattitle simply because my son used to sit
down watch a little television. I'min the kitchen doing some work, and
I'm ranting and raving about the wonderfulthings that are happening in Olympia, the
world's largest daycare center, and howit's affecting everybody. And so he said,
(00:48):
but Dad, you're ranting, andI said, yeah, I'm ranning.
Well, you're an old man,you're ranting. So I said,
okay, I'm in the kitchen.That, folks, is the way we
started that show. I took itfrom there, stuck it on faceback.
I did, Oh, I don'tknow, thirty forty shows something like that.
Lost Track. Had to fight constantlywith Facebook over everything, I mean
(01:11):
everything on the electronic end of itjust never seemed to work right. So
I thought, oh, I've hadenough, you know, and there were
so many good people. I reallyappreciate him, and I'm hoping to get
back with him after the first ofthe year. We're going to try a
little bit different approach from the kitchen. Well, why was discussing this?
We had some great guests stop inat the studio and he was the gentleman
(01:36):
who is the LUDAK, which isthe League of Laterno American Citizens, and
he is Washington State's head man.And I was surprised, and he brought
with him some other dignitaries from LUDAKto talk about podcasting. So we started
talking about podcasting and the way toyou know, work, the different equipment,
(02:00):
what kind of equipment they might need, and the two ladies that came
that are in charge of their studionow in Washington, We're delightful to talk
to. And it was really awonderful hour. And we'll have a cut
of that on Keep Alive. That'sour other podcasts that we do on the
Disruptors podcast network. And I thought, well, great, Well, one
(02:22):
of the gentlemen, Abe Cortes,has been with us before. About a
year and a half ago. Abedid the Powerhouse entertainment podcast, which was
basically interviews with businessmen and people inthe Tacoma Seattle area that are Latinos that
are very proud of their heritage andvery proud to be American citizens. And
(02:46):
it was a great show and we'rebringing it back this year. It's going
to be exciting. You know,you never can you never can tell what's
going to happen on the Old Manranging from the kitchen, or what's going
to happen on the Rupper's podcast.But I'll guarantee you this year is going
to be a year to remember,sort of if I can remember where and
(03:07):
who I am by this time nextyear. Uh. He brought up the
idea, said, you got alot of stories and you rant and rave
about the rental industry because you're you'rea podcaster and also a Are you ready
for this property manager in an apartmentcomplex? Now, folks, I want
you to know that before I startedthat job, I had a pretty good
(03:30):
sense of meaning, I had selfesteem. I had the ability to think
and to really reason out when peoplemade such unsensible, ununderstandable, okay stupid
statements concerning the very elementary factor ofwhy should I pay my rent or the
(03:55):
contract didn't say that, so Ijust well, okay, this show will
be number one on my life asthe old man running from the kitchen property
management. Yes, this story isgoing to begin with just recently when we
(04:15):
had an opportunity. A great couplehad moved out of the complex, very
nice people, and we had gonethrough and renovated their unit, got it
ready to put it back on themarket. Now there's a lot of stuff
that goes on, folks. Imean there's a lot of stuff when you're
a property manager that you have tounderstand. Of course, I didn't get
(04:39):
any education on that when they putme into this position. All they asked
was if we call, could youhandle something and we'll pay X number of
dollars per call. Ah. Boy, did I think that was a great
move. Of course, my sonwho was standing in the kitchen and I
was at the back door, andthe gentleman who was making me this offer
couldn't see my son be behind thedoor as he's standing there, going and
(05:02):
giving me hand signals, don't doit, don't do it, You're going
to regret it. And I'm ignoringhim because I like to agitate him,
so I naturally said, of course, I'm your man, and that was
the beginning of the end. Well, it turns out that property management was
a little bit more shall we say, involved, and i'd anticipate. I
(05:26):
thought, well, you know,somebody calls up, then if I can
figure out how to get it donefor him, or you know, send
the call to the well, Iwould. And that's where it all began.
Yeah, because you see, Idiscovered that there was nobody to call
at times, and I also discoveredthat I didn't have the foggiest idea what
(05:46):
I was doing, so I startedlearning stuff. I was really impressed with
myself at first, but then theugliness started. You know, when the
little animals crawl out of the cages, oh excuse me, when the tenants
to get upset. Well, itgot to the point where I nicknamed this
wonderful complex I'm at the zoo,And instead of bringing up people's names so
(06:09):
that I couldn't get you know,pounded on or whatever, when I got
upset renting and raving, I wouldgive them animals. In other words,
one problem that we had was agentleman that I called a gorilla. The
gorilla is over at the Baboon's house, and things aren't going well. That
was the code for OG, herewe go again. Well, you know,
(06:32):
I thought, with the change ofweather and the seasons and everything had
changed, and Christmas is going tobe exciting. Yeah, it's as exciting
as going to the dentist and havingthe dentists look at you and say,
well, I went to medical schoolfor six weeks. Now. I think
we used No Kane first, Noeight and he takes out a great,
big, huge plate. No.No, it's that exciting. Really,
(06:55):
I thought, everything's fine, everything'sgoing to be great. Oh, I'll
handle everything. Well, apartment comesup for rent, the crew goes in,
the apartment's all refurbished. Ready.I got on the computer. I
was so excited with myself. Really. I wrote the ad and put it
up with a big picture. Itook and everything. And the first thing
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that happens, right I have toget go is one of my wonderful people
tenants here who looked at the adand said, oh my god, that's
horrible. Is you know you gotto open up that it's awful? And
I thought, well, that's nice. It's only been out there for twenty
minutes, so okay, come in, pulled up a chair. The person
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sits down, looks at the adnotice I said the word person because I
don't want to any pronouns or nouns. Confused, looks at the ad.
Oh, no, this is wrong. This is wrong. That's wrong.
Rewrites it wonderful, I said,okay, whatever, have a good evening,
open the door, and pretty wellshoved the person out. Now that's
that's kind of the friendly way tohandle things. Of course, you want
(08:05):
the community to really respect and enjoyand become part of what you're doing.
That's the wrong, wrong advice.By the way, don't follow that advice.
So okay, cool. First peoplecome to look at the apartment.
They read the ad. Oh,they're excited. Here comes this car that's
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blown a little smoke out in thebag. Nothing nothing bad. Well wait
a minute, come to think aboutit. The other guy that was twenty
feet behind him walk into the mailboxdisappeared, so maybe maybe the smoke was
at a little much. So hedrives up. He said, hardy,
I'm looking for the manager, AndI said, well, I'm the property
manager. How can I help you? Oh right, I read a drad
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there're squad and ad dire and we'relooking for a place to leave. You
know, we're coming from our streightand we're really great to buy here.
And I said, oh, okay, And I looked down at the plate,
just casually at the car, andnotice it's a Washington state plate.
But yet he came from out ofstate. That turns on a property manager's
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first number one red flag. Butoh, eight folks, it gets worse
as he rolls down the window evenfurther. The wonderful smell of marijuana about
knocks me onto the driveway unconscious.Okay, I knew right then. Flag
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number two was flying very high upin the flag post. I would start
a great conversation with him, askhim, you know where'd you come from?
Oh, just come from come fromthe other side there, the other
side, the other side of stateover there and living out in a farm.
I said, oh okay, great, okay, Uh well, let
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me give you some facts in theapartment. Oh I really appre Could you
hold on just a minute here,just just just sit there for a second
and let me I got it.And I look in the backseat and what
I saw was incredible. In acage, kind of a home built cage.
Something that Frankenstein would put together isthis chicken, folks, A chicken,
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not a chicken ready for chicken dinner, but a live chicken with feathers
and a beak and a nasty personality. By the way, here you go
Roger, and he's what I said, are you from you took care of
animals on the farm? Are surehe did. But Roger didn't get along
(10:41):
with the farmer, so he gavehim to me. And I'm a Vietnam
vat and I said, oh,okay, well, thank you for your
service to the country. Now whatmight we be doing with the chicken.
Just I'm just kind of curious.Oh that's my stress chicken, I say,
excuse me, that's for stress chicken. I said, okay, stress
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chicken. Okay, could you youwere talking about an esa animal? I
would I would think, right,Is that correct? What's that? That's
an animal that the doctor says helpsyou with your stress. Now that'should a
chicken eggs? You know if youget a near rooster. Okay, that
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was flag number three because I knewright now we are not going to communicate
well over the chicken. As Iglanced across the sea, here is this
lovely lady. Now I'd like totake a moment of this podcast to describe
the lovely lady. She was aboutfive foot twelve or something. I don't
know. Isn't that six feet couldbe. She looked like a type of
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a lady that would in our overhauls. By the way one strap busted,
she looked like the type of lady. I'm surprised there wasn't any you know,
the pocket straw that works out inthe farm and understands farm mantles his
farm life. And I said,hi, how are you? And she
smiled, you know, didn't haveany front teeth. But anyway, we
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don't judge people on that. Wewe talked to him, make sure they
have an income, and then Iexplained to him they have to do a
background check. Watch your background check? Is that something from the bank?
You got it right? No?No, no, no, And then
I explained to him what a backgroundcheck was. So we got that part
pretty well down. Pat knowing thatflag number four coming up. He hasn't
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got a job, and he said, well, you know you have to
pay rent. Oh yeah, thechurch is sponsoring rush, you know.
I said, oh, okay,Well then I need the paperwork from the
church and how much and how We'regoing to work this out, and I
must give this to the landlord becausehe makes the final decision. Now,
Flag number five is right around thecorner. Oh okay, I gotta get
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out of car for just do youmind stepping back, sir. I got
to get out of the car.The chickens getting restless, opens the car
door and a bottle of I don'tknow what it was falls out onto the
ground. Oh. I haven't pickedthat up for she is You're just a
bottle, you know. And Ithought, Oh, that's wonderful. Do
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you have any children, by theway, Oh no, no children,
No children. That's I can't havechildren. I can't have children. You
know, I'm baiting out black.You know, got a chicken for relief
and tension? Oh okay, chicken. Okay, Well, the chicken has
to go through an ESA process becausewe do not have pets here unless they
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are registered uh stress animals under theyou know, Landlord Tenant Act and all
state regulations concerning pets that are stresspets. Uh. I watched that again.
I said, stress, no stresspaths without paperwork from your doctor.
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Can we do? But I'll certainlymention it to the landlord about this wonderful
conversation. Well, I really appreciatethat, I really do. How many
bedrooms you got here? I said, the ad has two, sir two?
Oh, Gary, we got aproblem there, I said, we
have a problem there. Well,yeah, missus and I we don't sleep
in the same room. Oh okay, that's that's okay. Uh, there's
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two bedrooms, so that shouldn't bea problem, right if you were accepted,
because you got to go through thebackground check to be accepted before we
go much further with this conversation.Hey, shyes, Now, now we
had a minute here. Uh thechicken had have one room. Oh geez,
yeah, you're right, we needa three bedroom. I don't know
how to and I said, well, I'll tell you what. While you're
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out looking for some of your ohmaybe further down the hill or over towards
the Frederickson area here in South Hill, a beautiful pill maybe you'll find that
three bedroom home so that you thechicken can have the space you need.
Well, I certainly thank you forexplaining all that to me. Now,
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I just got one other question.I said, sure, do you mind
if we just park here? Igot a tarp and sleeping bag and a
chicken staying in the back. See, you know, we just need someplace
to park because we were kind ofout in the street there for a couple
of weeks who had to move onbecause the chicken. I said, no,
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I would think that the landlord wouldappreciate you, you know, as
you are not attendant, nor doyou know anybody here. No, I
don't think that'd work out. Okay, Well, thank you any remember I'm
a Vietnam vat. I said,thank you again for your service. Say
goodbye to Roger and have a greatday and I'll talk hopefully soon after.
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And I gave them the paper forthe background check. You get these back
check information taking care, have anice day. Now. This guy drives
off and he's gone down the streetsomewhere, and I know it's the next
day, and he's about two milesdown the street on the side of the
road, park there and tarp overthe car, son sleep, you know,
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And I thought, boy, thatwas luck. Five stars, five
red stars up and by gully thoseflags they were up there with the red
stars and the beautiful. Boy,was I lucky to wrap that one up?
Can you imagine what a chicken coulddo in an apartment. Do you
have any idea the mess that achicken could do faster, probably than the
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damage of a dog. I knowit's hard to bleeve, folks, And
I know this chicken who lays eggswhen they, you know, find a
rooster to say howdy do? Thiscould be a real political problem. Now,
I don't know. I don't hatehim animals. To me, a
chicken is great in a chicken sandwich, chicken McNuggets is wonderful, and a
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roasted chicken woof. But as faras the stress pet's concerned, no,
no. I decided when I wrotethe Paul and I had to write my
own policy. Manuel, by theway, living in this apartment complex,
because nobody's ever heard of somebody showingup with a chicken to rent an apartment.
Well, folks, that's just partof part one of the story of
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what a real, real, trueapartment property manager goes through. And I
got a couple of other good storiesthat we're using the next podcast coming up.
But believe me, folks, ifyou ever think for a moment,
ever think for a moment that runningan apartment house is as easy as walking
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across the street, just remember,if you're not in the crosswalk, you're
going to get run over. Now, what is the meaning of that story.
It's simply is this, if youare not prepared to walk across in
a parking lot of life knowing thatthere are people out there that well,
they have certain ideology towards when,where and how to rent an apartment and
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you want to become an apartment manager. You can't jaywalk in this business.
You got to follow that with thepolicy of the world under your arm,
with no attitude, completely braindead.And you learn this word no no two
knows usually means that you've struck outwith a property manager. You also have
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to learn how to slam doors,and we'll go into that in the next
show. Also, so get anopportunity. Don't miss us. By the
way, the old man running fromthe kitchen will be back on Facebook shortly
after the first of the year.And of course here we are and I
have radio Spotify and possibly on yourfavorite podcast platform. Look for the smiling
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old man waving at you. That'llbe me. And we hope that you
have a great, great Christmas inNew Years. By the way, we're
going to have a great one.I just finished painting the sled and burning
up part of the rear end ofthe sled with a torch, so I
got to raise it up now,put it up on the rough there,
and we got some antler here,you know, wonderful ears for antler,
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and some horns, and a coupleof packages and stuff of that nature,
because we're going to explain to thepeople here at this particular wonderful community that,
well, kids, the grumpy Elfgot mad at Santa and crashed his
sleigh. Have a great New Year'sand the great Christmas, and maybe we
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can put America back together again.
The old Man raving from the KitchenLive podcast. Good evening everyone, it's
the old man, not ranting inthe kitchen, just ranting, and it's
a great pleasure to be with you. Ah. Yes, I've been ranting
out of the Kitchen on Facebook forsome time now, and people keep asking
(00:22):
me different questions about First of all, why are you ranting out of the
kitchen? Well, I got thattitle simply because my son used to sit
down watch a little television. I'min the kitchen doing some work, and
I'm ranting and raving about the wonderfulthings that are happening in Olympia, the
world's largest daycare center, and howit's affecting everybody. And so he said,
(00:48):
but Dad, you're ranting, andI said, yeah, I'm ranning.
Well, you're an old man,you're ranting. So I said,
okay, I'm in the kitchen.That, folks, is the way we
started that show. I took itfrom there, stuck it on faceback.
I did, Oh, I don'tknow, thirty forty shows something like that.
Lost Track. Had to fight constantlywith Facebook over everything, I mean
(01:11):
everything on the electronic end of itjust never seemed to work right. So
I thought, oh, I've hadenough, you know, and there were
so many good people. I reallyappreciate him, and I'm hoping to get
back with him after the first ofthe year. We're going to try a
little bit different approach from the kitchen. Well, why was discussing this?
We had some great guests stop inat the studio and he was the gentleman
(01:36):
who is the LUDAK, which isthe League of Laterno American Citizens, and
he is Washington State's head man.And I was surprised, and he brought
with him some other dignitaries from LUDAKto talk about podcasting. So we started
talking about podcasting and the way toyou know, work, the different equipment,
(02:00):
what kind of equipment they might need, and the two ladies that came
that are in charge of their studionow in Washington, We're delightful to talk
to. And it was really awonderful hour. And we'll have a cut
of that on Keep Alive. That'sour other podcasts that we do on the
Disruptors podcast network. And I thought, well, great, Well, one
(02:22):
of the gentlemen, Abe Cortes,has been with us before. About a
year and a half ago. Abedid the Powerhouse entertainment podcast, which was
basically interviews with businessmen and people inthe Tacoma Seattle area that are Latinos that
are very proud of their heritage andvery proud to be American citizens. And
(02:46):
it was a great show and we'rebringing it back this year. It's going
to be exciting. You know,you never can you never can tell what's
going to happen on the Old Manranging from the kitchen, or what's going
to happen on the Rupper's podcast.But I'll guarantee you this year is going
to be a year to remember,sort of if I can remember where and
(03:07):
who I am by this time nextyear. Uh. He brought up the
idea, said, you got alot of stories and you rant and rave
about the rental industry because you're you'rea podcaster and also a Are you ready
for this property manager in an apartmentcomplex? Now, folks, I want
you to know that before I startedthat job, I had a pretty good
(03:30):
sense of meaning, I had selfesteem. I had the ability to think
and to really reason out when peoplemade such unsensible, ununderstandable, okay stupid
statements concerning the very elementary factor ofwhy should I pay my rent or the
(03:55):
contract didn't say that, so Ijust well, okay, this show will
be number one on my life asthe old man running from the kitchen property
management. Yes, this story isgoing to begin with just recently when we
(04:15):
had an opportunity. A great couplehad moved out of the complex, very
nice people, and we had gonethrough and renovated their unit, got it
ready to put it back on themarket. Now there's a lot of stuff
that goes on, folks. Imean there's a lot of stuff when you're
a property manager that you have tounderstand. Of course, I didn't get
(04:39):
any education on that when they putme into this position. All they asked
was if we call, could youhandle something and we'll pay X number of
dollars per call. Ah. Boy, did I think that was a great
move. Of course, my sonwho was standing in the kitchen and I
was at the back door, andthe gentleman who was making me this offer
couldn't see my son be behind thedoor as he's standing there, going and
(05:02):
giving me hand signals, don't doit, don't do it, You're going
to regret it. And I'm ignoringhim because I like to agitate him,
so I naturally said, of course, I'm your man, and that was
the beginning of the end. Well, it turns out that property management was
a little bit more shall we say, involved, and i'd anticipate. I
(05:26):
thought, well, you know,somebody calls up, then if I can
figure out how to get it donefor him, or you know, send
the call to the well, Iwould. And that's where it all began.
Yeah, because you see, Idiscovered that there was nobody to call
at times, and I also discoveredthat I didn't have the foggiest idea what
(05:46):
I was doing, so I startedlearning stuff. I was really impressed with
myself at first, but then theugliness started. You know, when the
little animals crawl out of the cages, oh excuse me, when the tenants
to get upset. Well, itgot to the point where I nicknamed this
wonderful complex I'm at the zoo,And instead of bringing up people's names so
(06:09):
that I couldn't get you know,pounded on or whatever, when I got
upset renting and raving, I wouldgive them animals. In other words,
one problem that we had was agentleman that I called a gorilla. The
gorilla is over at the Baboon's house, and things aren't going well. That
was the code for OG, herewe go again. Well, you know,
(06:32):
I thought, with the change ofweather and the seasons and everything had
changed, and Christmas is going tobe exciting. Yeah, it's as exciting
as going to the dentist and havingthe dentists look at you and say,
well, I went to medical schoolfor six weeks. Now. I think
we used No Kane first, Noeight and he takes out a great,
big, huge plate. No.No, it's that exciting. Really,
(06:55):
I thought, everything's fine, everything'sgoing to be great. Oh, I'll
handle everything. Well, apartment comesup for rent, the crew goes in,
the apartment's all refurbished. Ready.I got on the computer. I
was so excited with myself. Really. I wrote the ad and put it
up with a big picture. Itook and everything. And the first thing
(07:16):
that happens, right I have toget go is one of my wonderful people
tenants here who looked at the adand said, oh my god, that's
horrible. Is you know you gotto open up that it's awful? And
I thought, well, that's nice. It's only been out there for twenty
minutes, so okay, come in, pulled up a chair. The person
(07:41):
sits down, looks at the adnotice I said the word person because I
don't want to any pronouns or nouns. Confused, looks at the ad.
Oh, no, this is wrong. This is wrong. That's wrong.
Rewrites it wonderful, I said,okay, whatever, have a good evening,
open the door, and pretty wellshoved the person out. Now that's
that's kind of the friendly way tohandle things. Of course, you want
(08:05):
the community to really respect and enjoyand become part of what you're doing.
That's the wrong, wrong advice.By the way, don't follow that advice.
So okay, cool. First peoplecome to look at the apartment.
They read the ad. Oh,they're excited. Here comes this car that's
(08:26):
blown a little smoke out in thebag. Nothing nothing bad. Well wait
a minute, come to think aboutit. The other guy that was twenty
feet behind him walk into the mailboxdisappeared, so maybe maybe the smoke was
at a little much. So hedrives up. He said, hardy,
I'm looking for the manager, AndI said, well, I'm the property
manager. How can I help you? Oh right, I read a drad
(08:48):
there're squad and ad dire and we'relooking for a place to leave. You
know, we're coming from our streightand we're really great to buy here.
And I said, oh, okay, And I looked down at the plate,
just casually at the car, andnotice it's a Washington state plate.
But yet he came from out ofstate. That turns on a property manager's
(09:09):
first number one red flag. Butoh, eight folks, it gets worse
as he rolls down the window evenfurther. The wonderful smell of marijuana about
knocks me onto the driveway unconscious.Okay, I knew right then. Flag
(09:31):
number two was flying very high upin the flag post. I would start
a great conversation with him, askhim, you know where'd you come from?
Oh, just come from come fromthe other side there, the other
side, the other side of stateover there and living out in a farm.
I said, oh okay, great, okay, Uh well, let
(09:52):
me give you some facts in theapartment. Oh I really appre Could you
hold on just a minute here,just just just sit there for a second
and let me I got it.And I look in the backseat and what
I saw was incredible. In acage, kind of a home built cage.
Something that Frankenstein would put together isthis chicken, folks, A chicken,
(10:20):
not a chicken ready for chicken dinner, but a live chicken with feathers
and a beak and a nasty personality. By the way, here you go
Roger, and he's what I said, are you from you took care of
animals on the farm? Are surehe did. But Roger didn't get along
(10:41):
with the farmer, so he gavehim to me. And I'm a Vietnam
vat and I said, oh,okay, well, thank you for your
service to the country. Now whatmight we be doing with the chicken.
Just I'm just kind of curious.Oh that's my stress chicken, I say,
excuse me, that's for stress chicken. I said, okay, stress
(11:03):
chicken. Okay, could you youwere talking about an esa animal? I
would I would think, right,Is that correct? What's that? That's
an animal that the doctor says helpsyou with your stress. Now that'should a
chicken eggs? You know if youget a near rooster. Okay, that
(11:26):
was flag number three because I knewright now we are not going to communicate
well over the chicken. As Iglanced across the sea, here is this
lovely lady. Now I'd like totake a moment of this podcast to describe
the lovely lady. She was aboutfive foot twelve or something. I don't
know. Isn't that six feet couldbe. She looked like a type of
(11:50):
a lady that would in our overhauls. By the way one strap busted,
she looked like the type of lady. I'm surprised there wasn't any you know,
the pocket straw that works out inthe farm and understands farm mantles his
farm life. And I said,hi, how are you? And she
smiled, you know, didn't haveany front teeth. But anyway, we
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don't judge people on that. Wewe talked to him, make sure they
have an income, and then Iexplained to him they have to do a
background check. Watch your background check? Is that something from the bank?
You got it right? No?No, no, no, And then
I explained to him what a backgroundcheck was. So we got that part
pretty well down. Pat knowing thatflag number four coming up. He hasn't
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got a job, and he said, well, you know you have to
pay rent. Oh yeah, thechurch is sponsoring rush, you know.
I said, oh, okay,Well then I need the paperwork from the
church and how much and how We'regoing to work this out, and I
must give this to the landlord becausehe makes the final decision. Now,
Flag number five is right around thecorner. Oh okay, I gotta get
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out of car for just do youmind stepping back, sir. I got
to get out of the car.The chickens getting restless, opens the car
door and a bottle of I don'tknow what it was falls out onto the
ground. Oh. I haven't pickedthat up for she is You're just a
bottle, you know. And Ithought, Oh, that's wonderful. Do
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you have any children, by theway, Oh no, no children,
No children. That's I can't havechildren. I can't have children. You
know, I'm baiting out black.You know, got a chicken for relief
and tension? Oh okay, chicken. Okay, Well, the chicken has
to go through an ESA process becausewe do not have pets here unless they
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are registered uh stress animals under theyou know, Landlord Tenant Act and all
state regulations concerning pets that are stresspets. Uh. I watched that again.
I said, stress, no stresspaths without paperwork from your doctor.
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Can we do? But I'll certainlymention it to the landlord about this wonderful
conversation. Well, I really appreciatethat, I really do. How many
bedrooms you got here? I said, the ad has two, sir two?
Oh, Gary, we got aproblem there, I said, we
have a problem there. Well,yeah, missus and I we don't sleep
in the same room. Oh okay, that's that's okay. Uh, there's
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two bedrooms, so that shouldn't bea problem, right if you were accepted,
because you got to go through thebackground check to be accepted before we
go much further with this conversation.Hey, shyes, Now, now we
had a minute here. Uh thechicken had have one room. Oh geez,
yeah, you're right, we needa three bedroom. I don't know
how to and I said, well, I'll tell you what. While you're
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out looking for some of your ohmaybe further down the hill or over towards
the Frederickson area here in South Hill, a beautiful pill maybe you'll find that
three bedroom home so that you thechicken can have the space you need.
Well, I certainly thank you forexplaining all that to me. Now,
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I just got one other question.I said, sure, do you mind
if we just park here? Igot a tarp and sleeping bag and a
chicken staying in the back. See, you know, we just need someplace
to park because we were kind ofout in the street there for a couple
of weeks who had to move onbecause the chicken. I said, no,
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I would think that the landlord wouldappreciate you, you know, as
you are not attendant, nor doyou know anybody here. No, I
don't think that'd work out. Okay, Well, thank you any remember I'm
a Vietnam vat. I said,thank you again for your service. Say
goodbye to Roger and have a greatday and I'll talk hopefully soon after.
(15:56):
And I gave them the paper forthe background check. You get these back
check information taking care, have anice day. Now. This guy drives
off and he's gone down the streetsomewhere, and I know it's the next
day, and he's about two milesdown the street on the side of the
road, park there and tarp overthe car, son sleep, you know,
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And I thought, boy, thatwas luck. Five stars, five
red stars up and by gully thoseflags they were up there with the red
stars and the beautiful. Boy,was I lucky to wrap that one up?
Can you imagine what a chicken coulddo in an apartment. Do you
have any idea the mess that achicken could do faster, probably than the
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damage of a dog. I knowit's hard to bleeve, folks, And
I know this chicken who lays eggswhen they, you know, find a
rooster to say howdy do? Thiscould be a real political problem. Now,
I don't know. I don't hatehim animals. To me, a
chicken is great in a chicken sandwich, chicken McNuggets is wonderful, and a
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roasted chicken woof. But as faras the stress pet's concerned, no,
no. I decided when I wrotethe Paul and I had to write my
own policy. Manuel, by theway, living in this apartment complex,
because nobody's ever heard of somebody showingup with a chicken to rent an apartment.
Well, folks, that's just partof part one of the story of
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what a real, real, trueapartment property manager goes through. And I
got a couple of other good storiesthat we're using the next podcast coming up.
But believe me, folks, ifyou ever think for a moment,
ever think for a moment that runningan apartment house is as easy as walking
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across the street, just remember,if you're not in the crosswalk, you're
going to get run over. Now, what is the meaning of that story.
It's simply is this, if youare not prepared to walk across in
a parking lot of life knowing thatthere are people out there that well,
they have certain ideology towards when,where and how to rent an apartment and
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you want to become an apartment manager. You can't jaywalk in this business.
You got to follow that with thepolicy of the world under your arm,
with no attitude, completely braindead.And you learn this word no no two
knows usually means that you've struck outwith a property manager. You also have
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to learn how to slam doors,and we'll go into that in the next
show. Also, so get anopportunity. Don't miss us. By the
way, the old man running fromthe kitchen will be back on Facebook shortly
after the first of the year.And of course here we are and I
have radio Spotify and possibly on yourfavorite podcast platform. Look for the smiling
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old man waving at you. That'llbe me. And we hope that you
have a great, great Christmas inNew Years. By the way, we're
going to have a great one.I just finished painting the sled and burning
up part of the rear end ofthe sled with a torch, so I
got to raise it up now,put it up on the rough there,
and we got some antler here,you know, wonderful ears for antler,
(19:30):
and some horns, and a coupleof packages and stuff of that nature,
because we're going to explain to thepeople here at this particular wonderful community that,
well, kids, the grumpy Elfgot mad at Santa and crashed his
sleigh. Have a great New Year'sand the great Christmas, and maybe we
(19:53):
can put America back together again.
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