CAUGHT

Caught 2 JD Home construction workers in apartment 102 with 2 prostitutes. Notified JD, they told me to email the picture of the licence i took and said they would let their supervisor know. This happened yesterday around 4:30 pm.

last week, had one of the tenants come over because he was beating his gf the night before in the courtyard. Cops came but found no markings, she protected herself on the ground pretty well. Told the tenant if it happens again he will be evicted. Gf said she was moving out but she has been around lately.

Gross.

Found out there are cockroach eggs in my coffee pot and I have been brewing them for awhile now. Yum.

Toured the place to more tenants, all christian and down for living in biblical community. Our biggest strength against the agency will be our unity. I am excited!

Finding problems

Fixing Some Problems


Waiting to hear back from JD about letting me take on more responsibilities and getting paid to fix things. Don't want to enable JD Homes, rather than having them help take on their problems as well. Almost the same situation as a drug addict that asks for spare change. Should I pay and fix things out of my own pocket, or should JD?

New Tenants!

Tom and Kendall Adlard now live in #209.

They are getting officially married soon but until then one of them is going to stay in the new digs until they get married next month. There apartment is so nice! 

Looking forward to the days to come.

Unforseen Vacancy

I am not sure but I think the people who lived in the apartment with the mold in it, are no longer living there. Not sure what happened, if JD evicted them or offered them another apartment. But their blinds are drawn closed and nobody answered the door. If I don't see any change in a few days I will just assume that they are gone.

The 15 year old, neighborhood tough, Izzy and I are starting to talk a lot more too. Which is cool. We will see where that goes...

Not much else to update on.

Attemptive Break In (into my apartment and not into my heart)

So as you can see, the purp tried to get in by busting the handle off by force. The handle on both sides has two indentations where the tool they were using was trying to break it off. I left my apartment last night and stayed at my grandma's working on editing videos there cause I can get Internet there, than during the day I was with Katie. So the incident could've happened at anytime between 10 pm Sunday night to 8:30 pm Monday (Valentines Day).

The lock on the bottom was the one I changed from a crappy, cheap, plastic one JD had put to the solid, heavy Home Depot (9 bucks) one I had purchased. Is it coincidence that this one was messed with and not the top? Because JD has a key to my top lock but not my home depot one. Is it also coincidence that they started to work on the apartment next door today too? Or was it the kid and his friends that i kicked out last night cause they were trying to play beer pong in his old apartment? Not sure. All I have is suspicion but I am going to go tomorrow to home depot to get a new one. Even though I have nothing really of too much value in my apartment, I am thankful it was a mess that got prevented.

Wyatt Earp

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:06 PM, James Rutledge <jimirutledge@gmail.com> wrote:

Its # 105, see attachment for a picture. Its size is a foot and a half in length.

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Esko Siipola <> wrote:

James,
Why don't you give me the unit number and I'll "push the issue" a bit and get Miguel to come meet us on site. You're doing a great job, don't get frustrated, remember they have lots of properties to deal with.........Thanks, Esko

-----Original Message-----
From: James Rutledge [mailto:jimirutledge@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 11:37 AM
To: Esko Siipola
Subject: meeting/mold

hey esko,

Just wondering if you were able to scheduale a meeting with miguel and david. I think it needs to happen at this point. Miguel seems neglectful when I am approaching him on things like mold in one of my tenants apartments. In fact, he flat out ignored me today... So not sure really what to do at this point and hoping a meeting can happen.


james

I was pretty upset with Miguel. I called him and told him on his voicemail that next time I am going to have to hold him down and pin him to the ground to talk to him (I was pretty frustrated). Anyway, I will have to apologize when that conversation comes up.

So yeah, not sure how to handle the mold issue. Its in Esko's hands now (if it is a big deal). I looked up on the internet the hazards of having mold and it seems like it can create some pretty bad conditions for a person's lungs. We'll see what happens...

So the tenant next door to me, the 19 year old kid who I suspected of dealing attempted to come back last night with a group of his friends and have a party in his apartment. He didn't pay rent for this month, and was given an eviction notice to vacate by the 18th. Thinking this meant he could have a party... I quickly redirected his thinking and became like Wyatt Earp and told him that he and his friends need to go play beer pong somewhere else. I was pretty stern about it.

I am starting to realize how difficult this is going to be. Not impossible, but difficult. As of right now, I feel like I am simply floating, like down the San Joaquin. Not sure what gross and disgusting things are beneath the surface, not sure what direction the river is taking me to, but I do know this; as long as I can control my temper and stop getting frustrated over people I should expect to be a jerk, hopefully I will have a grip more on things. I can't control JD's negligence or apathy, but who I am in this process is up to me. I need to remain faithful.