sure, those luxury condos going up all over downtown austin might look pretty, but if you’re like, “dude, enough of this corporate bullshit!” our anonymous austin submitter says her building offers plenty of exciting local color you won’t find in those glass-and-steel towers. perks include: 1) the building’s property manager, a character known for his […]
Entries Tagged as 'landlord'
just trying to “keep austin weird”
April 8th, 2008 · 130 Comments
Tags: CAPS LOCK · all clogged up · austin · landlord · toilet
be informed, homeland security will be
November 6th, 2007 · 188 Comments
PES picked this note out of an apartment building in newark, nj in 2004 because he loved the paragraph, which is oh-so-amazing. add in the peculiar diction and the glorious redundancy of it all, and you’ve got one fucking delicious note.
p.s. for more deliciousness, be sure to check out the stop-motion shorts at eatpes.com.
Tags: CAPS LOCK · exclamation-point happy! · garbage · gloriously redundant · graffiti · jersey · landlord · loitering · newark · not-so-veiled threats · questionable logic · shameless meme-mongering · smoking
free markets, free people, free papers
October 19th, 2007 · 215 Comments
another doozy of an apartment manager note from oakland, california. our anonymous submitter wasn’t able to save any of those 14 notices, so it’s unclear if any of them were anything like this one.
related: love, apt. 3
Tags: CAPS LOCK · california · guilt trip · landlord · neighbors · newspaper · oakland · obnoxious definition · stealing · underlining
your to lazy
October 15th, 2007 · 167 Comments
those troublemakers requesting more crazy apartment notes can thank our anonymous submitter, a GM at a property management firm in springfield, missouri for today’s masterpiece. “one of our resident managers delivered this letter to 115 units at her property, then e-mailed me a copy because she was REALLY proud of it,” our submitter writes. “i […]
Tags: TLDR · cleaning · dogs · exclamation-point happy! · garbage · irregular capitalization · itemized list · landlord · missouri · more like crazy · music · noise · not-so-veiled threats · parents & kids · parking · rhetorical question · roaches · smoking · spelling and grammar police · vandalism
movin’ out (anthony’s song)
August 14th, 2007 · 185 Comments
mary saw this collection of missives while visiting friends in long island city, queens last spring.
anthony left a note on the door…
saving his pennies for someday…
you oughta know by now
workin’ too hard can give you a heart attackackackackackack
and it seems such a waste of time
you should never argue with a crazy […]
Tags: landlord · money · more aggressive than passive · more like crazy · moving/not moving · queens · questionable logic · rebuttals · spelling and grammar police · thank you terry