Entries Tagged as 'landlord'

just trying to “keep austin weird”

April 8th, 2008 · 132 Comments

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 [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · all clogged up · austin · landlord · toilet

be informed, homeland security will be

November 6th, 2007 · 192 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.

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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 · 216 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 

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · california · excessive underlining · guilt trip · landlord · neighbors · newspaper · oakland · obnoxious definition · stealing

your to lazy

October 15th, 2007 · 173 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 [...]

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Tags: TLDR · cleaning · dogs · exclamation-point happy! · garbage · irregular capitalization · itemized list · landlord · missouri · more like crazy · music · noise · not-so-veiled threats · parking · rhetorical question · smoking · spelling and grammar police · vandalism

movin’ out (anthony’s song)

August 14th, 2007 · 204 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 [...]

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Tags: landlord · money · more aggressive than passive · more like crazy · moving/not moving · queens · questionable logic · rebuttals · spelling and grammar police