Posted by lil' jimi on September 9, 2003, at 19:03:50
In reply to I called the landlord/ jimi, posted by kara lynne on September 9, 2003, at 18:08:46
hey there Kara Lynne,
> I spoke to his wife, I just said they were very loud and kept me up until 3am. She said there were complaints from the prior tenants, and she seemed to be understanding. I don't know what they're actually going to do , but now they know. Technically they were just 'talking', what do you do with that? I guess I could have said maybe they were drinking, or something, but I was very nervous making the call in first place and kind of stammered all over myself.
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> Ah well..... perfectly understandable ... ... every reason in the world to be as circumspect as possible ... can't be overdoing it when we don't want to draw fire ... ...
... ... now the dudes' history may be leveraged here ... ... but it will require more chattiing up the landlord and or his wife .... ... how hard should it be for them to distinguish a good tenant from the bad ? ... ... having an ongoing problem which is running off good tenants should be motivating ... ... lay it out as 'how can you keep good tenants with this action? only subtler ... ...... then there's possible escalations ... but we want to work this landlord ....
... see if there's any sense of any action on the landlord's part
... any sense of motivation from your concerns / complaint
... any sensitivity to your concerns with confidetiality of your complaints with the appropriate discretion on landys' part ...
.... you could inquire innocently with landlord if they knew of any illeagal drug activities involved with these late night escapades:"you don't think they'd be using something that keeps them up?"
"are landlords liable for know drug abuse problems on their property ?"... not my best, but you get this idea ....
... yeah, right, jim, just work it into the conversation ... ... sure ...more later !
~ jim
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