Anyone that’s rented a home or an apartment has had to deal with either a good landlord or a bad one.
I’ve had a bad one or two, but I want to highlight real quick a story about a good landlord I had. The first place that my wife and I ever lived in had a horrible air conditioning system.
Like the thing never worked. It was terrible. That summer, we had to keep the air conditioning running 24/7 even though it never really worked just so we could get decent airflow in it.
When we got the electric bill, it was still the highest bill I have ever gotten for anything.
The landlord came over to fix something one day and we told him about it. He knew that it was his fault, and he could have told us that wasn’t his problem.
Instead, he told us that instead of the rent plus water bill for the following month to just pay the water bill and he would call it it even.
To this day it remains one of the greatest things I have ever seen anyone do.
That being said, if there are good landlords and bad landlords; surely there are good tenants and bad tenants.
Which brings me to the case of a man named Ahmet. Recently, the building in New York City he has lived in for nearly two decades was sold.
The other tenants eventually moved out, leaving him as the last holdout.
Now, the new group that owned the building wants to get him to move out so they can renovate and do something else with the building.
The problem is that he is basically squatting and refusing to leave.
So, the owners have had to resort to some pretty inventive ideas to get him to leave.
The thing that they have tried most recently is that they have placed these giant fans near the entrance to his apartment that run every hour of the day to try to “noise” him out of the building.
I have to say, you would think that someone that wasn’t paying their rent would be less of a pill about leaving, but I guess that’s the world we live in.