The Successful Landlord Blog

It flat out amazes me that companies who have a local monopoly supplying a necessary service can be and often behave like total bastards.

Case in point, Waste Management Melbourne Hauling is the company that collects trash and refuse for the three different municipalities in which we own property, rental and otherwise. All but one city government includes a charge for the services provided by Waste Management on the water bill, because it stands to reason that if you’re using water, you’re probably generating garbage too. Read the rest of this entry »

Ok folks, here’s a nice Friday story. New tradition maybe? This post is kind of a follow-up to one of my posts called Why We Are Expected To Be Lazy.

So, I’m on hold the other day and the hold music is a local West Palm Beach, FL radio station. This cheesy “credit repair” commercial comes on saying how we can fix your credit, blah blah blah.
At the end of the commercial, the announcer says, “We take care of unlucky people.”

What?!

U-N-L-U-C-K-Y?

WTF!? Read the rest of this entry »

Hola readers. Just a quick note to let you know that I have not fallen off the face of the earth or anything.

I’ve just been kind of busy with the other part of my life. It seems that one of my larger clients has seen it fit to behave like a complete ass, so much so that I’ve made up my mind to set a timeline and dump them from my client list. They run a lot of code that I wrote so I can’t just walk lest I get sued on top of having to endure their idiocy. Read the rest of this entry »