Re: [sudo-discuss] Elevator Upgrade

If I were the one being asked, what I would say would be "Sorry, not my building, not my problem, good luck." What I would WANT to say is "Unless you agree that I can take the parts out of the elevator that I'm paying for with me when I move out- or, better yet, be reimbursed for them- I would sooner free climb the outside wall with my bike in my teeth in a hailstorm before covering your ends."

There's something about this guy that brings out the troll in me. Not that I would ever act on it but...it's like, you're A FUCKING LANDLORD, behave like one. A few years back I had a bad run-in extremely sketchy/irrational landlord who was sort of like the female version of George, so maybe it's PTSD. Who knows.

BTW, I'm sure everyone here realizes that what I'm saying is (mostly) in levity....I would love to straighten the guy out personally, but I don't see what purpose it would serve other than giving him a real reason to yell at somebody and we obviously don't want that.

-chrisbee On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 11:06 AM, David Keenan dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> wrote:

I've given it some thought and can definitely understand the inclination to help George out in the interest of improving our relations, but it's just that, in my own experience doing that - buying goodwill with George with cash, or favors large and small i.e. free labor - doesn't actually work..he just forgets basically, or takes it for granted totally, i.e. comes to expect it, and in a week he will be again yelling at one of us about anything thats on his mind, or dragging garbage all over the space, and continuing to use our trash service for the entire building, and unilaterally shutting off the AC which we cant turn back on unless he accidentally leaves the roof access open...and basically you know, doing whatever the hell he wants regardless of how it affects us. This is a guy who regularly yells at me or hangs up on me while i am in the very act of helping him. Laurie is not the greatest but she is not like that, and I would kick down if it was just her running the building. But it's George's building, and his general inclination seems to be to treat his tenants poorly, and this goes for every tenant in the building (Ive talked with all of them), not just BAPS/Sudo.

I think we should tell him our combined discretionary funds have already been allotted to the rent increase. best,david

On Saturday, January 4, 2014, niki wrote:

I second that emotion.  Niki

On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Chris Bee hotelcompany(a)gmail.com> wrote:

So in addition to the rent, utilities and the myriad odd jobs - on second thought, let's call them "favors" since the word "job" usually implies compensation- he now expects sudo/BAPS to cover the overhead costs on HIS building? The man has no shame.

I know! Tell him that since the 3% rent increase will add up to around $500 by the end of the year, he'll double down if he can hold out till next December...and that if you were to pony up that you expect, at the very least, a brass plaque mounted inside the elevator listing all of the donors that made this ride possible. Or that we have a time machine in beta testing and that "where we're going we don't need elevators" while stuffing compost into your backpack.

In other words, anything but "yes." -chrisbee

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