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Landlord Boy Shows Property

We sent Landlord Boy out to one of the properties today. He needed to show it to a young lady who found us online about a month ago. She has been waiting for us to have it ready to show and ready to rent.

Now this is the day that I hit 50k on the Rain. Things were good and I was waiting for something to go wrong. It was going to happen. I just didn't know what would go wrong.

Crap. 5:54pm.

Prospective tenant wants the place. She wants to fill out an application on the spot. Since we have had this vacant for 2 months, I am ready to rent to a donkey with a diarrhea problem.

Phone rings and I expect to hear that we have an app and things are good. Wrong....

LL Boy: They were ready to sign the application, but there was a problem.

LL Man: Problem? What problem?

LL Boy: The gang bangers.

LL Man: Huh?

LL Boy: Right after I handed them the application there was a noise outside. It was about 15 little gang bangers getting into a fight. They came out of the house across the street. One of them was yelling that he was going home to get his gun.

LL Man: So what happened?

LL Boy: Tenant grabbed the application and left in a hurry.

LL Man: So what about you?

LL Boy: I called the cops.

LL Man: And then you left?

LL Boy: No. I was pretty sure I was safe upstairs and there was a good view of the street from the master.

LL Man: So how long were you stuck in the house?

LL Boy: Long enough to see the kid in the red hat get the crap kicked out of him.

LL Man: And after that you walked out to the car with all of this going on and left?

LL Boy: No. I was parked in back. They never saw me.

LL Man: So why did you stick around?

LL Boy: I just wanted to see what would happen.

I think I like Landlord Boy...

Richard F. Kruse is the President of Columbus, Ohio based Gryphon USA, Ltd. (www.gryphonusa.com). The Gryphon Organization includes Gryphon Asset Management providing receivership and consulting services in the distressed marketplace, United Country Ohio Realty & Auction Group (www.ucohiorealty.com & www.ucohioauctions.com) providing real estate brokerage and auction services throughout Ohio and OnlineAuctionUSA.com (www.onlineauctionusa.com) providing commercial asset liquidations from the Midwest to East Coast.

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Posted by Rich Kruse on 03/21/2007 11:08 PM

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Originally posted at: Asset Management & Recovery: Landlord Boy Shows Property

8 Comments on Landlord Boy Shows Property

MAR

2007

Rich - I keep telling you, Do Not get landlord boy killed. Especially now that he's a W-2 employee with insurance coverage. Our rates will go up if he dies and the his only possible replacements at this point are me and the littlest landlord. Neither of whom are going to go show these properties.

Renting to a donkey - that's a whole different issue that we'll have to discuss.

We have only one small area here that is a questionable neighborhood. But going over there in the daylight is ok..it's at night I might become uneasy. It's the crack area and where all the hookers hang out.

ahhh, I'm almost missing living back in New York. Almost but not quite.

Just want you to know that I did not laugh at this post or Melissa's comment. <------Big Fat Lie

I like Landlord Boy too.. I would have done the same thing! Cept I would have had the camera out, flash off of course.

Maggie LOL!

LLM, LLB sounds like a keeper. Next time make sure he has his video camera so we can all see the YouTube short. I'm assuming his concealed weapons permit is in the works?

Pretty good chance he already has it. We were discussing the "guns in the office" policy the other day.

MAR

2007

Love Landlord Boy!!! My kind of guy, nuts the size of grapefruits.

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