The park... part 2

At the park with 3 of my 4 grandbabies! What a great day!

My personal experience with a bad landlord

I had a very bad experience with L'Heureux Properties in Nelsonville Ohio and I wanted to write a bit about it here on my blog... just to vent, get it out and explain to people what happened. AND TO WARN YOU ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS PRACTICES!!!

First of all, the town was not the right place for me. It wasn't the right place for other people - a tattoo shop, a bookstore, and a thrift store - cause we all left within a short time of each other. The square was dead. Like..seriously dead. And I had it on good authority that someone from the tourism industry didn't give a rats ass about us - or that we would lose tons of money with all the events that were being hosted on the square (events that only certain businesses would benefit from - such as those who owned a coffee house or a boot outlet).

The building kept popping and the lights would flicker, Once I had to call the fire department because blue sparks were shooting out of my electrical box. The ceiling was terrible and my clothes were getting ruined... something that came from above several stories up top.

There's more. So much more. Like how one tenant found out he was paying the electric of his building, even though he was only renting a small space on the bottom. This man hired an electrician to disconnect his electric from the rest of the building... and his electric bill DRAMATICALLY went down. Note: He was never compensated. And he also didn't receive his deposit back - even though he left the place clean and in way better condition than from when he left it.

I won't go into the complaints I heard from his apartment tenants - which were many (and some kinda weird).

But when I was moving out, I gave several months notice. I was on a month-to-month and was leaving at the end of October 2010. Once I told them I was leaving, I was given a bill for tons of fees.. like thousands of dollars worth. (Several thousand). No shit! It was crazy! And I didn't owe them!!


So I decided to let them take me to court over the frickin' fees.


When the filed, they said I was locked into a 3 year contract and they wanted 2 more years worth of fees... over $24,000!!! PLUS, they said I left the place in shambles, trash everywhere, unpaid utilities and tons of those damn late fees. They were also charging me for the cost of fixing up the place so they could re-rent it (even though it was full of trash when I rented it). We were also being charged for the cost of them advertising, they claim for a new tenant - even though the same month our case was over... lo and behold.. the landlords WIFE started moving into the place!! And I was told that was the goal all along!!!

I represented myself and filed all my own papers and during discovery I asked for proof to all their lies. I also charged them with UNCLEAN HANDS - which is where a person brings an action in front of a judge that is based on a lie.

When they got my discovery questions, they quickly changed their case... eliminating all the lies about the trash, the 3 year contract, me not telling them I was leaving, the utilities, etc and just sued me for the back rent (2 months) and the late fees. Still thousands and thousands of dollars - the fees were more than what I actually owed.

I won my case and was able to get the fees waived. Why? Because they were bullshit lies! In the end I only had to pay for what I owed. Nothing more.

 Wanna see the evidence to what I'm saying? (What I prepared for court) ... Here ya go!

Did you know???

During one seven year period, Thomas Edison obtained approximately three hundred patents. In is whole life he obtained over one thousand patents.
 

Chrissy and Mister Japer Bojangles (who's 14 now!!) get to hang out for a bit

You would never know it, but Mister Jasper Bojangles is a geriatric cat. Yep. He's over 14 and that's 80 years old in human years!!

Seven Million Pounds of “Pink Slime” Beef Destined for National School Lunch Program

By Sarah B. Weir, Yahoo! blogger | Healthy Living – Thu, Mar 8, 2012 1:05 PM EST

"pink slime" burger? McDonald's and Taco Bell have banned it, but now the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is buying 7 million pounds of beef containing ammonium hydroxide-treated ground connective tissue and meat scraps and serving it up to America's school kids. If you thought cafeteria food was gross before….


According to TheDaily.com, the term "pink slime" was coined by microbiologist Gerald Zirnstein, formerly of the USDA Food Safety Inspection Service. He first saw it being mixed into burger meat when he was touring a Beef Products Inc (BPI) facility in 2002 after an outbreak of salmonella. "Scientists in D.C. were pressured to approve this stuff with minimal safety approval," Zirnstein told The Daily.

"Pink slime," which is officially called "Lean Beef Trimmings," is banned for human consumption in the United Kingdom. It is commonly used in dog and chicken food. Celebrity chef and safe food advocate Jamie Oliver featured the substance and called for its ban on the April 12, 2011 episode of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, which may have influenced McDonald's to stop using beef patties containing the filler.
Reportedly, Zirnstein and his colleague Carl Custer studied the substance and classified it as a "high risk product." Custer, who worked at the Food Safety Inspection service for 35 years, says, "We looked at the product and we objected to it because it used connective tissues instead of muscle. It was simply not nutritionally equivalent [to ground beef]. My main objection was that it was not meat."

Another issue is the ammonium hydroxide, a chemical that is used to kill pathogens such as E. coli. The FDA considers it safe for human consumption but a 2009 expose by the New York Times questioned its safety and efficacy. Some food advocates are asking for meat containing "pink slime" to be labeled. It's used in about 70% of ground beef in the US. "We don't know which districts are receiving what meat, and this meat isn't labeled to show pink slime. They don't have to under federal law," Bettina Siegal, a writer and mother of two who created TheLunchTray.com told NBC. Siegel has started a petition to demand the USDA stop using the product in the National School Lunch Program.

Would you allow your kids to eat ground beef mixed with "pink slime?"

Another night with nana.... of course.