Boring - that's the best word to decribe my day.
My day started with a trip to Office Max to pick up some ink for the printer (which cost $95 - ouch). Next stop was at Lowes to pick up materials for the one-bedroom apartment I'm working on. I bought drywall mud, some 2 X 4's, a trim piece, and a couple of other things. That was $55.
After shopping, I headed for the one-bedroom apartment, where I dropped off the materials I bought. About that time, I received a call from a tenant who reported that the water pressure in his sink was low and getting lower. So, I drove over there and cleaned the faucet screen which took all of 5 minutes. From there, I headed over to the Pink Elephant for the big project of the day, which was to make more shelves. The shelves I built today were for my electrical and lighting supplies. After finishing the shelves, I arranged my electrical and lighting supplies on the shelves.
My final stop for the day was at one of my 3 bedroom houses. I received a call last evening about the a broken shower knob in one of the bathrooms. The shower knob was indeed broken and I took it with me so that I can find a replacement. This is a 2 bathroom house, so there was no hurry to replace it today. After working about 4 hours, I had enough for one day and I returned home.
After being bored for 4 hours, I played a little 007 (Quantum of Solace) on the Wii and I'm happy to report that I finally killed all the bad guys and made it to the end of the game! I really like the game, but was disappointed in the ending. The game simply stops at the end of one level and the credits roll. Very strange ending. At any rate, now I've been through the entire game on the "trainee" level and I'll start it again on a more advanced level.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
Wow! What a Day!
In the rental business, you quickly learn to be flexible and to multi-task. That's just a normal part of the business and it's what I expect. However, today seemed like an unusually busy day, since so many different things were going on.
My day started by meeting a contractor to look at the roof on my home. The roof had been damaged by the storm and I wanted to get his opinion of the severity of that damage. I actually spent a few minutes last night looking at the roof myself, and it appeared to me that it was ruined. The shingles on the entire south-facing front of the house are missing all the grit from the shingles, while the shingles on parts of the north side look new. The paper portion of the shingles are literally paper thin in many areas and many are ripped (in addition to the shingles that are completely missing). The contractor's opinion is that the roof is obviously ruined and MUST be replaced. He said that without replacement, any further storms would remove more and more of the roof. In retrospect, I think that the roof was seriously damaged when hurricane Ike came through, with 80 mph winds and that Wednesday's storm finished it off.
After the roofer left and I finished talking to my insurance company, I made a trip to the bank; the post office; and another bank (to make one of my apartment building payments). Next stop was the local treasurer's office, where I paid 5 figures worth of income tax (for only 1/2 a year). OUCH! I just hate seeing all that money going to the government to waste!
The next item on my list was to stop by one of my 1 bedroom apartments to inspect it before the annual Section 8 inspection. Outside of a new smoke alarm battery, the apartment was ready for the inspection. Checking my list, Section 8 was also the next order of business. This task was to drive to the Section 8 office to initial a change they had made to one of their contracts. My newest tenant is a veteran who is part of a brand new Section 8 program for veterans. It seems the paperwork for this new program was slightly different and I needed to initial a change, reflecting that I was not providing air conditioning to the tenant. While I was there, they also gave me the rent check for February for this unit. Getting money is always a good thing. With that check, I can officially report that all rents have been received for February and that another month will go by without an eviction.
While I was at the Section 8 office, I received a call from the service provider for the DSL Line that allows me to access my security cameras via the internet. My DSL Line went out during the big storm on Wednesday. The technician said that he would be at the apartment building in about 10 minutes, so I made a bee line for the Pink Elephant. Sure enough, the techician found that the line had been damaged in the storm. After some work, the line was fixed. Once the line was fixed, I needed to do some reprogramming of the computer and router to get the cameras back online.
Once the cameras were fixed, I walked next door to meet the Section 8 inspector for a complaint inspection. This Section 8 tenant is a pain in the butt. Every time she has a concern, she calls Section 8 instead of calling me. On two occassions she has plugged up the toilet or sewer line with tampons and baby wipes. I'm not very happy with her and will not renew her lease when her year is up. Her complaints today were roaches, spiders, termites, and the plugged sewer line (which I already fixed). Of course, the roaches and spiders are being caused by her filthy housekeeping habits and I have told her that repeatedly. In fact, I think that the reason she called Section 8 is that I accused her of living like a PIG (which she does and I told Section 8 exactly that). To make a long story short, this is a BRICK BUILDING, so there were no termites. Those were a figment of her imagination. The inspector took a flashlight and checked every nook and cranny of the apartment. After a very thorough inspection, he was only able to find two roaches and he told her that her poor housekeeping skills were attracting the roaches. There were numerous spider webs around the apartment and obviously she was too lazy to take a broom and remove them. That addressed her list of grievances and needless to say, the apartment passed the inspection with flying colors.
My final project was to install the quarter-round trim pieces around the laminate floor that I installed a few days ago. As it turned out, I was about two feet short of quarter-round stock and I'll finish that along with installing the transition pieces another day.
Have a great weekend!
My day started by meeting a contractor to look at the roof on my home. The roof had been damaged by the storm and I wanted to get his opinion of the severity of that damage. I actually spent a few minutes last night looking at the roof myself, and it appeared to me that it was ruined. The shingles on the entire south-facing front of the house are missing all the grit from the shingles, while the shingles on parts of the north side look new. The paper portion of the shingles are literally paper thin in many areas and many are ripped (in addition to the shingles that are completely missing). The contractor's opinion is that the roof is obviously ruined and MUST be replaced. He said that without replacement, any further storms would remove more and more of the roof. In retrospect, I think that the roof was seriously damaged when hurricane Ike came through, with 80 mph winds and that Wednesday's storm finished it off.
After the roofer left and I finished talking to my insurance company, I made a trip to the bank; the post office; and another bank (to make one of my apartment building payments). Next stop was the local treasurer's office, where I paid 5 figures worth of income tax (for only 1/2 a year). OUCH! I just hate seeing all that money going to the government to waste!
The next item on my list was to stop by one of my 1 bedroom apartments to inspect it before the annual Section 8 inspection. Outside of a new smoke alarm battery, the apartment was ready for the inspection. Checking my list, Section 8 was also the next order of business. This task was to drive to the Section 8 office to initial a change they had made to one of their contracts. My newest tenant is a veteran who is part of a brand new Section 8 program for veterans. It seems the paperwork for this new program was slightly different and I needed to initial a change, reflecting that I was not providing air conditioning to the tenant. While I was there, they also gave me the rent check for February for this unit. Getting money is always a good thing. With that check, I can officially report that all rents have been received for February and that another month will go by without an eviction.
While I was at the Section 8 office, I received a call from the service provider for the DSL Line that allows me to access my security cameras via the internet. My DSL Line went out during the big storm on Wednesday. The technician said that he would be at the apartment building in about 10 minutes, so I made a bee line for the Pink Elephant. Sure enough, the techician found that the line had been damaged in the storm. After some work, the line was fixed. Once the line was fixed, I needed to do some reprogramming of the computer and router to get the cameras back online.
Once the cameras were fixed, I walked next door to meet the Section 8 inspector for a complaint inspection. This Section 8 tenant is a pain in the butt. Every time she has a concern, she calls Section 8 instead of calling me. On two occassions she has plugged up the toilet or sewer line with tampons and baby wipes. I'm not very happy with her and will not renew her lease when her year is up. Her complaints today were roaches, spiders, termites, and the plugged sewer line (which I already fixed). Of course, the roaches and spiders are being caused by her filthy housekeeping habits and I have told her that repeatedly. In fact, I think that the reason she called Section 8 is that I accused her of living like a PIG (which she does and I told Section 8 exactly that). To make a long story short, this is a BRICK BUILDING, so there were no termites. Those were a figment of her imagination. The inspector took a flashlight and checked every nook and cranny of the apartment. After a very thorough inspection, he was only able to find two roaches and he told her that her poor housekeeping skills were attracting the roaches. There were numerous spider webs around the apartment and obviously she was too lazy to take a broom and remove them. That addressed her list of grievances and needless to say, the apartment passed the inspection with flying colors.
My final project was to install the quarter-round trim pieces around the laminate floor that I installed a few days ago. As it turned out, I was about two feet short of quarter-round stock and I'll finish that along with installing the transition pieces another day.
Have a great weekend!
Thursday, February 12, 2009
More Storm Damage
We're having a banner year for storm damage here in Ohio. So far this year, we've had 3 major events. First was hurrican Ike which rolled through Ohio earlier in the year with hurricane force winds and did a lot of damage to the area, including minor damage to a few of my rentals. Then, a couple of weeks ago, we had a major ice storm drop more than an inch of ice on the area. This damaged a lot of trees and resulted in relatively minor damage to some of my property and some of the neighbor's property (when my trees fell on their property and downspouts were ripped from my buildings). Then, last night we have very strong winds go through the area. I don't know how strong they were, but they damaged the shingles on the roof at my home (which were probably weakened by ike) and they pulled the post that held our basketball backboard right out of the ground. That was a 4 inch steel post set in 2 feet of concrete! To my amazement, I didn't receive any reports of significant damage at any of the rentals.
The other issue that occurred as a result of the storm was that my security cameras went offline. They are still working and recording, but I just can't watch the action from home via the internet. So, I went to the storeroom at the Pink Elephant to see what the problem was. After going through the diagnostic, I determined that the DSL service was down and I called the service provider. They will be sending out a technician - hopefully tomorrow.
Finally, I had two small maintenance issues today. The first issue was a leaking trap under the kitchen sink of one of my two bedroom apartments. That was literally a 5 minute fix. The next issue was a ceiling fan that the tenant reported was sparking. I told the tenant to turn it off and not use it until I arrived. To my surprise, the tenant was correct and sparks were flying when the fan blades would reach certain points in their rotation. To be honest, I didn't look any further to see what was wrong as I'm taking out all ceiling fans anyway. Ceiling fans are too complicated for rentals (tenants) as evidenced by a recent lawsuit I read about in which a tenant was bouncing on the furniture and lost an eye when struck by the ceiling fan blade. Anyway, I removed the fan and replaced it with a builder's quality light (less than $6 at Lowes).
That was it for work today and then I came home to look at my own damaged roof. I have a contractor coming to look at it tomorrow and then I'll decide whether we'll turn it in to the insurance.
The other issue that occurred as a result of the storm was that my security cameras went offline. They are still working and recording, but I just can't watch the action from home via the internet. So, I went to the storeroom at the Pink Elephant to see what the problem was. After going through the diagnostic, I determined that the DSL service was down and I called the service provider. They will be sending out a technician - hopefully tomorrow.
Finally, I had two small maintenance issues today. The first issue was a leaking trap under the kitchen sink of one of my two bedroom apartments. That was literally a 5 minute fix. The next issue was a ceiling fan that the tenant reported was sparking. I told the tenant to turn it off and not use it until I arrived. To my surprise, the tenant was correct and sparks were flying when the fan blades would reach certain points in their rotation. To be honest, I didn't look any further to see what was wrong as I'm taking out all ceiling fans anyway. Ceiling fans are too complicated for rentals (tenants) as evidenced by a recent lawsuit I read about in which a tenant was bouncing on the furniture and lost an eye when struck by the ceiling fan blade. Anyway, I removed the fan and replaced it with a builder's quality light (less than $6 at Lowes).
That was it for work today and then I came home to look at my own damaged roof. I have a contractor coming to look at it tomorrow and then I'll decide whether we'll turn it in to the insurance.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Here We Go Again!
As I write this post, the wind outside is blowing literally 60 mph. That's bad enough, but unfortunately this wind is following a very significant ice storm that occurred only 2 weeks ago. The ice storm was severe enough that numerous trees were destroyed and even more were damaged. In fact, city crews are still busy picking up downed tree limbs from the ice storm and crews have just recently finished getting all their electric customers re-connected.
This evening, I received a call from one of my low income tenants at the Pink Elephant (one of my apartment buildings). The tenant told me that the wind had knocked the electrical line down and that it was sparking. I called the electric company to report the incident and then drove down to the building to check things out and ensure that the tenants didn't electrocute themselves. When I arrived at the building, the first thing I noticed was that the lights were on. Upon further investigation, I discovered that the only thing that had happened was that a tree limb had fallen on a phone line and knocked it down. It certainly wasn't "sparking" and never had been. As often happens with low-income tenants, they were exaggerating! Therefore, I ensured that the phone company had been called and came home.
This afternoon, before all the excitement started with the storm, I went to Lowes for parts and then worked on my one bedroom apartment. No big deal. Tomorrow, I'm planning to finish the trim work on the laminate floor I installed yesterday.
This evening, I received a call from one of my low income tenants at the Pink Elephant (one of my apartment buildings). The tenant told me that the wind had knocked the electrical line down and that it was sparking. I called the electric company to report the incident and then drove down to the building to check things out and ensure that the tenants didn't electrocute themselves. When I arrived at the building, the first thing I noticed was that the lights were on. Upon further investigation, I discovered that the only thing that had happened was that a tree limb had fallen on a phone line and knocked it down. It certainly wasn't "sparking" and never had been. As often happens with low-income tenants, they were exaggerating! Therefore, I ensured that the phone company had been called and came home.
This afternoon, before all the excitement started with the storm, I went to Lowes for parts and then worked on my one bedroom apartment. No big deal. Tomorrow, I'm planning to finish the trim work on the laminate floor I installed yesterday.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Back to work!
After a few days of not doing much rental property stuff, I finally got back to work today. My project de jour was laying a laminate floor in one of my 1-bedroom apartments. This was the last of the cheap laminate flooring that I bought from Lowes a few weeks ago. I bought enough to do 3 rooms and today's project was the 3rd room. I won't be buying any more of this particular brand because I HATE the way it fits together (or should I say doesn't stay together).
While in town, I also looked at the 4-unit building where I will be installing the new surveillance system. This is a building with a LOT of angles and it will be a challenge to cover properly. I did some preliminary layout design for the system today including determining where the power supply and DVR will go and also made a preliminary decision on the location of the cameras.
I spent about 4 hours on these two things and that was it for today.
The market is still very good here. I continue to get a LOT of calls for houses and I don't have a single one available! That's a nice problem to have. I do have two 1-bedroom apartments available (actually 1 available and 1 almost available), so I can try to rent them for next month.
While in town, I also looked at the 4-unit building where I will be installing the new surveillance system. This is a building with a LOT of angles and it will be a challenge to cover properly. I did some preliminary layout design for the system today including determining where the power supply and DVR will go and also made a preliminary decision on the location of the cameras.
I spent about 4 hours on these two things and that was it for today.
The market is still very good here. I continue to get a LOT of calls for houses and I don't have a single one available! That's a nice problem to have. I do have two 1-bedroom apartments available (actually 1 available and 1 almost available), so I can try to rent them for next month.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Update on Druggie!
First - an update on my incident with the druggie that I talked about in my blog on Monday. The druggie moved out and was completely out by Monday night at 10 pm. My threats of calling the police; calling the drug task force; and eviction were apparently successful. The good news is that they cleaned the place up and it is ready to re-rent.
The mother of the druggie called me on Tuesday and wanted the security deposit back. I told her to forget it! She still didn't seem to understand what her daughter had done wrong. It's hard to imagine that a mother could be so clueless. I explained to the mother that her daughter had broken her lease with the illegal drug activity in the apartment. Furthermore, the daughter moved out on February 2nd, which means that she owed February rent. The security deposit is being used to cover those damages.
Today is the 5th and almost all of the rents have been collected. I always have a few late payers that pay the $50 late fee, and I'll still be collecting them over the next couple of days. I'm not expecting any evictions this month, as I've talked to the few people that haven't paid yet and all are planning to pay during the 3 Day Notice period. If anyone doesn't pay, I'll evict them.
Today, my main project was to move tools and supplies out of the one-bedroom apartment that I've been using for storage. I'm moving them to the storeroom at the pink elephant which will be my central storage area and is protected by an elaborate alarm system and security cameras. Part of that job was to build some shelves and try to really get things organized. So, I built some shelves today and spent some time arranging things on those shelves according to their purpose (plumbing on one set of shelves, electrical on another, etc). I will be doing the same thing again tomorrow.
The mother of the druggie called me on Tuesday and wanted the security deposit back. I told her to forget it! She still didn't seem to understand what her daughter had done wrong. It's hard to imagine that a mother could be so clueless. I explained to the mother that her daughter had broken her lease with the illegal drug activity in the apartment. Furthermore, the daughter moved out on February 2nd, which means that she owed February rent. The security deposit is being used to cover those damages.
Today is the 5th and almost all of the rents have been collected. I always have a few late payers that pay the $50 late fee, and I'll still be collecting them over the next couple of days. I'm not expecting any evictions this month, as I've talked to the few people that haven't paid yet and all are planning to pay during the 3 Day Notice period. If anyone doesn't pay, I'll evict them.
Today, my main project was to move tools and supplies out of the one-bedroom apartment that I've been using for storage. I'm moving them to the storeroom at the pink elephant which will be my central storage area and is protected by an elaborate alarm system and security cameras. Part of that job was to build some shelves and try to really get things organized. So, I built some shelves today and spent some time arranging things on those shelves according to their purpose (plumbing on one set of shelves, electrical on another, etc). I will be doing the same thing again tomorrow.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Shocked Again!
Just when I thought I'd seen EVERYTHING that you can see in the rental property business, I was absolutely SHOCKED today! Here's the story.
A couple of months ago, I rented an apartment to a 19 year old girl. Although her boyfriend was not on the lease, she disclosed that he would be living there also. The girl's mother works at a local government agency that I deal with on a regular basis. I did a thorough screening on the girl and her boyfriend and didn't find anything derogatory. They are both relatively clean-cut young adults and I thought they would make good renters.
A few days ago, I received a call from one of the neighbors of the fourplex where this girl lives. She told me that this apartment was definitely a "crack house" and that the tenants were a "nightmare". This neighbor is a member of the local crime watch and I had worked with her in the past to clean up this entire street (which contained many crack houses) when we started buying properties on this street two or three years ago. This street had four buildings full of crackers when we started buying the buildings and we have completely cleaned it up. Even after her call, I doubted that the tenant was involved in drugs. I hadn't seen any coming and going of traffic (although the neighbor said she had) and the tenant certainly didn't look or act like the typical drug dealer.
Yesterday, when the temperature warmed up, I stopped by the apartment building to shovel the ice, since there would be a narrow window of above-freezing temperatures. While I was shoveling, the next door neighbor (another neighbor) came out and told me that the tenants in this apartment were running a crack house. I was in the process of questioning him about what he had seen, when three very iffy looking people came out of the apartment. About two minutes later, a big stoner complete with dreadlocks and pants below his butt (that I recognized as one of the local druggies) came out of the apartment. I instantly went from being skeptical to being 100% convinced that the neighbors were correct. I walked straight over to the apartment door and knocked loudly. A man asked "who's there"? I loudly said "landlord", at which time I heard a lot of scurrying inside the apartment (probably as they hid the drugs). The tenant answered and I told her that I had seen several druggies come out of her apartment. I asked her who else was in there and she responded "NO-ONE". Well, now I was really pissed because she was LYING. A man asked "who's there" and therefore there was at least one more person in the apartment. I said "you're lying, a man answered the door and I want to talk to him RIGHT NOW!" He came to the door and his eyes were completely glassed over. I said, "you're stoned" and he said "I'm not going to lie to you man - I am". Druggies are SOOOOOO STUPID!
At that point, I had heard enough. I told the druggie to GET THE HELL OUT! About that time, stoner Dreadlocks returned and I also told him to GET THE HELL OUT! Next, I told the tenant that her drug activities were over. She could either immediately leave or I would have the police and drug task force down here to bust her AND I would immediately evict her. I also told her that I would be calling her mother to let her know what a druggie her daughter was! She got in her car and left.
Now, if you're thinking that this is what shocked me, you are wrong. Dealing with the occassional scumbag druggie is just part of the business and this isn't even close to being the worst druggie that I've dealt with. In fact, it's probably one of the easiest drug issues that I've dealt with.
Late yesterday afternoon, I received a call from the mother of the tenant. She asked me what was going on and I told her that her daughter was a druggie. I told her that if her daughter didn't immediately leave, I would evict her AND do everything possible to have her arrested. She insisted that her daughter was not a druggie, but that her daughter would leave.
Today, I received a call from the step-father of the tenant. He said that he would be at the apartment at 5:30 pm to move her out and wanted to meet me there. I met the father there under the impression that he wanted me to look at the apartment after her belongings were out and that he wanted to hear the story first hand of what his step-daughter was up to. To my amazement, the mother, father, and step-father of the tenant were there and they wanted to know if I had PROOF that she was SELLING drugs. I told them that the druggie in her apartment had admitted that he was stoned and that he was so stoned that he could barely walk. I told them about the constant comings and goings at the apartment late at night, which are signs of a drug house. I told them that the neighbors and I had both seen KNOWN druggies go into and out of the apartment. Their response - "so you don't have any proof"! I've got to tell you that I was just about speechless! I was absolutely shocked that the parents apparently didn't care that their daughter was hanging around with druggies. They didn't care that I had actually seen a stoner in her apartment and that he admitted to being stoned. They didn't care that known druggies were coming and going. They didn't care that she was on the fast track to becoming a criminal. I told them that I didn't know what kind of parent didn't care that their daughter was a druggie and then I left.
I'm still almost speechless! WHAT A BUNCH OF SCUMBAG PARENTS!
A couple of months ago, I rented an apartment to a 19 year old girl. Although her boyfriend was not on the lease, she disclosed that he would be living there also. The girl's mother works at a local government agency that I deal with on a regular basis. I did a thorough screening on the girl and her boyfriend and didn't find anything derogatory. They are both relatively clean-cut young adults and I thought they would make good renters.
A few days ago, I received a call from one of the neighbors of the fourplex where this girl lives. She told me that this apartment was definitely a "crack house" and that the tenants were a "nightmare". This neighbor is a member of the local crime watch and I had worked with her in the past to clean up this entire street (which contained many crack houses) when we started buying properties on this street two or three years ago. This street had four buildings full of crackers when we started buying the buildings and we have completely cleaned it up. Even after her call, I doubted that the tenant was involved in drugs. I hadn't seen any coming and going of traffic (although the neighbor said she had) and the tenant certainly didn't look or act like the typical drug dealer.
Yesterday, when the temperature warmed up, I stopped by the apartment building to shovel the ice, since there would be a narrow window of above-freezing temperatures. While I was shoveling, the next door neighbor (another neighbor) came out and told me that the tenants in this apartment were running a crack house. I was in the process of questioning him about what he had seen, when three very iffy looking people came out of the apartment. About two minutes later, a big stoner complete with dreadlocks and pants below his butt (that I recognized as one of the local druggies) came out of the apartment. I instantly went from being skeptical to being 100% convinced that the neighbors were correct. I walked straight over to the apartment door and knocked loudly. A man asked "who's there"? I loudly said "landlord", at which time I heard a lot of scurrying inside the apartment (probably as they hid the drugs). The tenant answered and I told her that I had seen several druggies come out of her apartment. I asked her who else was in there and she responded "NO-ONE". Well, now I was really pissed because she was LYING. A man asked "who's there" and therefore there was at least one more person in the apartment. I said "you're lying, a man answered the door and I want to talk to him RIGHT NOW!" He came to the door and his eyes were completely glassed over. I said, "you're stoned" and he said "I'm not going to lie to you man - I am". Druggies are SOOOOOO STUPID!
At that point, I had heard enough. I told the druggie to GET THE HELL OUT! About that time, stoner Dreadlocks returned and I also told him to GET THE HELL OUT! Next, I told the tenant that her drug activities were over. She could either immediately leave or I would have the police and drug task force down here to bust her AND I would immediately evict her. I also told her that I would be calling her mother to let her know what a druggie her daughter was! She got in her car and left.
Now, if you're thinking that this is what shocked me, you are wrong. Dealing with the occassional scumbag druggie is just part of the business and this isn't even close to being the worst druggie that I've dealt with. In fact, it's probably one of the easiest drug issues that I've dealt with.
Late yesterday afternoon, I received a call from the mother of the tenant. She asked me what was going on and I told her that her daughter was a druggie. I told her that if her daughter didn't immediately leave, I would evict her AND do everything possible to have her arrested. She insisted that her daughter was not a druggie, but that her daughter would leave.
Today, I received a call from the step-father of the tenant. He said that he would be at the apartment at 5:30 pm to move her out and wanted to meet me there. I met the father there under the impression that he wanted me to look at the apartment after her belongings were out and that he wanted to hear the story first hand of what his step-daughter was up to. To my amazement, the mother, father, and step-father of the tenant were there and they wanted to know if I had PROOF that she was SELLING drugs. I told them that the druggie in her apartment had admitted that he was stoned and that he was so stoned that he could barely walk. I told them about the constant comings and goings at the apartment late at night, which are signs of a drug house. I told them that the neighbors and I had both seen KNOWN druggies go into and out of the apartment. Their response - "so you don't have any proof"! I've got to tell you that I was just about speechless! I was absolutely shocked that the parents apparently didn't care that their daughter was hanging around with druggies. They didn't care that I had actually seen a stoner in her apartment and that he admitted to being stoned. They didn't care that known druggies were coming and going. They didn't care that she was on the fast track to becoming a criminal. I told them that I didn't know what kind of parent didn't care that their daughter was a druggie and then I left.
I'm still almost speechless! WHAT A BUNCH OF SCUMBAG PARENTS!
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