Anyone want to rent from me a two bedroom pad in LA in the midst of the action?

[opebo]

It is funny that the rent on this one apartment exceeds the rent on all of my family's rental houses put together!  That is, if I remember rightly, I think we have only around five houses rented and they're only around 500-600/month.  It is hard to remember exactly, and the houses are a small part of the rental business - thank goodness!

[opebo]

Missouri is cheap. A 1bd apartment in the Nashville area will run you about $500-600.

Same in Missouri.  Remember we are slumlords, not ordinary landlords.  We even have henchmen.

[opebo]

The "henchmen" do what? Take the exterior doors off the units if the rent is not paid? 

Haha, yes, that sort of thing.  But it rarely comes to that - first they just scare people.  They are kind of frightening and unpleasant.

[opebo]

Do you plan to continue to employ them after your parents assume room temperature?  Just curious. I kind of wish I were a tenant in one of your parents' hovels. I'd bankrupt them.   But then, I doubt that they would rent to a lawyer.

Really?  One may successfully sue the landlord for verbally requesting his rental payment and at the same time communicating a warning of legal or police actions should payment not be received?  In Missouri the landlords are allowed to communicate with their tenants.

In point of fact I'm not really sure the henchmen actually do anything other than act as our representatives and look intimidating.  It seems like on the rare occasion that someone doesn't leave voluntarily the police are called out to sort of supervise the eviction (serve the eviction?).  I think in that case those big boys carry out the people's belongings - obviously the cops aren't going to do that.

[opebo]

Oh, they are errand boys following the law. You made them seem, well  ... I guess I should have known better! 

Well, the point is the simple folk often believed they were as I implied, and this used to be somewhat accentuated by an absurd rumor about my father - that somehow in his earlier years he had been involved with you-know-who (I won't say only 'the Italians', because in St. Louis they were also Irish and Jewish as well, or so it is said).  Construction/unions... I can see how people might think such a thing but it both wasn't the case and anyway irrelevant by the 1990s.