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[pippin_999]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "catlady_de_los_angeles" 
<catlady at w...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> 
> > If they've decided to live with it, or worse, they are involved 
> > (cynical aren't I?) you might make a stronger statement just
> > moving. Losing a couple of good tenants might make them 
think.
> 
> IIRC she lives in the Bronx. Where landlords view tenants 
> *voluntarily* moving out as the *most* welcome, unexpected, 
blessing  from heaven. A landlord blessed with a vacant 
apartment can demand a  schmier from *each* applicant and 
make the best few bid against each  other, bidding up the rent. 
To a level that makes getting bad tenants  in exchange for good 
tenants a good bargain. Wasn't Chicago like that?
>

Chicago has never had rent control, IIRC, so, no, it's not like that.  
If you are trying to keep a building maintained, bad tenants are 
no bargain no matter how much they pay. Of course slum lords 
would not care.

In Chicago, a club like that would be run by The Mob, though.  
That might be true in Jenny's case also. Going through building 
management would probably be a safe way to find out what the 
story is. It's hard to get the media interested in stuff that goes on 
in a "bad" neighborhood,   unless you get a whole community 
organization together to complain. 

Pippin