Vino The Strange-One
Well-Known Member
Back in the day (the seventies), you read the newspaper classified section (remember those?) and looked at the listings. If you saw something that might work for you, you called the number of the owner and asked for the address. If you liked what you could see through the windows, you went to the owner's house and paid your deposit and rent after filling out a card or piece of paper about where you worked and maybe an emergency contact number.
The eighties brought the Rental Agencies to the mix. You had to sign up with an agency, then go on a certain day to pick up fresh rental sheets. Hardly anyone listed in the papers those days. You went to see a place, then filled out a form for the background check. Usually charged $25 - $35 USD for that, too. I'm sure it might have been a lucrative scam until at least the state of California said if you didn't get the house, you either got your money back or an actual background check in hand.
The nineties brought in the Property Management goofballs. Pay someone so much money a month to keep your place rented and punk your tenants about shit. A friend was threatened by a Prop management d00d to water the lawn, in the middle of a drought with severe fines for overuse of water or even, no surprise here, for watering lawns! He even called to punk my friend about a "Dead tree" in the front yard, said it had to go. If he didn't do something about it, the prop management d00d would have a tree service take care of it. A week later, the tree d00d shows up, knocks on the door asking about the dead tree. What dead tree? Only tree in the front yard was a Mulberry tree that was green and healthy.
I hate people throwing empty food wrappers on my lawn. They come from downtown, finish their food and apparently a nice green lawn must be a perfect repository for their food trash. Most of it is from McDoodles that's about seven blocks away.
That really sucks. I do feel bad for you. People not respecting someone else space or even the streets by just throwing trash are dumb dumbo jumbo cocumbo.