The first week of each month is when all of the rents are due in my company and therefore it is dubbed the very uncreative, unoriginal “rent week” that gets thrown around by all of the crazies I work with.
I must admit that I am tired and although I shouldn’t admit to it, I’m tired of property management. Some people are just so mean! I don’t know what was in the water this month, but it was especially hard for me. There were six individual cases of cranky tenants who didn’t want to play by the rules. The rules are clear, in writing and agreed to by all of us months prior to this bizarre, full-moon-type week. It’s called the lease.
This last week, I had one woman who literally wanted to fight me. She’s probably in her early 20s and ticked that she’s gonna have to pay the last month’s rent since she did not give us a 30 day written notice. We all sit down to meet in our conference room because she wants to try to work something out. But she starts off on a rampage. She got all worked up telling us how we are just slumlords who are just trying to take her money. I try to explain to her that our lease doesn’t work that way and that we require a written 30 day notice of her intent to vacate from the 1st day of the month. She then all of sudden stands up in the conference room and lunges at me screaming “Okay, you wanna go? You want to fight me? You want to take this out and really go at it?!” My jaw was on the floor in shock and awe. I was floored by her “negotiation tactics!!” Actually, she made me so mad that I was a nanosecond away from telling The Donald to hold my earrings, but he was too busy desperately seeking his camera as there was about to be a shake-down in his conference room. Nonetheless, I kept my cool and my professionalism. She ended up walking/stomping out. Oh the maturity… she’s really going to go far in life. * insert sarcasm here *
Here are some of the other zingers that came out of rent week this month:
1) “I can’t wait to give these photos of this crappy house to the News-Leader to show everyone how you’re such a slumlord.” Yeah, sometime I will have to tell you about the lush that couldn’t get her address right. But really what I wanted to say to her is “What?! People still read the newspaper?”
2) “I shouldn’t have to pay late fees just because I’m late.” My response to this is…nevermind I have no response to this. The Bible tells me I shouldn’t argue with a fool. I will just send him a statement.
I want to tell all of them, YOU’VE BEEN RED LISTED. And because of the numerous red-listable situations happening this week has got an idea in me churning… I will keep you posted on good things to come.
I’d tell you more, but I am late for my kickbox training class.
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Love this perspective Jessica – especially the part about arguing with fools