I found out something yesterday which is pretty damned interesting about the Klown Kar Real Estate Mgmt Co. We’re having to cite all kinds of laws and make threats going forward to get them to do anything.

They finally brought my neighbor a new electric range because she threatened to call the county’s Code Enforcement. Then, they said they’d have to find an electrician to check out her breaker box which keeps dimming the lights, turning things off and on, etc and could be a fire hazard. They actually brought the replacement range in the back of an SUV—and not a huge vehicle, either. A “maintenance crew” without a dedicated work truck or delivery van? That means this co intends to do as little as possible and ignore problems, even large and potentially damaging ones. No licensed electricians or plumbers, either, from what the maintenance guy said.

The guy who came over to install another carbon monoxide detector (required by the State) told us a lot of interesting details about the Klowns. He’s also looking for another job and said the owners of the co are essentially just assholes. I’ve suspected they’re only interested in selling real estate to suckers, and asked him if there was any personnel in the office. He said it was full, but appears to be people making cold calls trying to sell real estate. “But you didn’t hear all this from me. You got it from your research.” So I’m going to find out if what I’m describing below is actually legal. Probably is, although it’s no way to run a business if you want satisfied tenants.

The woman who is supposed to be the “manager” of this property—wait for it—lives in Romania. It seems she had an affair with one of the 2 guys who own the place when she lived in Charlotte and her husband told her she could either return to Romania or the marriage was over. As a “favor”, instead of severance pay, her bosses allow her to telecommute her mad skillz from Romania via phone and email. And she’s doing a lousy job of it, such as sending people to come into our apts without notification—which is against the law. We thought it was bad enough that the co was trying to “manage” this little complex from 30 miles away. I wondered why such a small co wanted everyone to communicate with them via emails and not phone calls or letters. Her cell phone bill must be huge because I always call and won’t give them my email address and she still has a local number.

This won’t turn out well for them since most of us are looking for different quarters.

And the grass is getting higher, in spite of her assurances to me that she had signed up a landscaping service and they were to be over here this week. I’m betting it won’t happen.

You’ve heard of “liar loans”? This is “liar maintenance”, writ large.