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Stupid Tenant Tricks

Here is another installment of real-life "stuff" that has happened in the building(s) that I manage, or what I like to call "Stupid Tenant Tricks".

• A parker in the garage left his car in the fire lane instead of using a parking spot.  The parking staff stuck an orange sticker on the car advising the parker that we have recorded his license plate and if he does this again we will have him towed.  The parker called our office, irate that the sticker was too hard to peel off the glass and we better not put another one on his car again.   Our parking manager was very understanding and gave him the number of the tow truck company that will tow his car next time he parks there.
• After sending a memo advising our tenants of an upcoming power shutdown, a tenant called to ask me if their computers would need to be turned off prior to the shutdown.  I told him that if his computer is left on, the building would automatically turn off his computer when the power is turned off.  He asked how we did that.
• A group of foreign tourists stopped me in the lobby asking me, in broken English, why the observation area was closed to the public.  I told them that there was simply nothing to see.
  

  Water is the secret ingredient.

• While I was standing in line at Starbucks, we were informed that their water filtration system was not working and they could not make any coffee for a few hours.  A tenant further up the in line asked why they could not use the building tap water to make the coffee.  The Starbucks employee replied "Have you tasted the building water?"

And finally...

• A tenant called me one morning to report that the water in her bathroom was brown.  It took everything I had not to tell her that the little silver handle above the commode is designed to remedy that problem immediately....