Dear Jane,
The landlord with the palm tree. Well, he lives in a section of town called "The Keys" which is all homes with boat docks on the water. Needless to say he has $$$$$$$. The property I live next to is just for his rental income so that he can go to Hawaii etc., and never spends any money to take care it. Usually the tenants he rents to are just drunks or drug addicts here for the surfing for a year or so and then they leave. So he does not care at all about anyone else in the neighborhood.
My landlord, well, he's in the film industry and on location all the time. My friend (his wife who I pay the rent to) comes from $ and spends as little as possible on the properties they own unless they are getting a lot of rent for that property. The house I live in is a duplex, the tenants next door get everything (who pay high rent), I just get the bare minimum because my rent is low.
Now the palm tree has grown into the power lines going into this house, maybe something will get done. It's now about an insurance issue on protecting the house they own. This has been going on for 3 years.
And most of the time they are on the 14 acres they own in Oregon.
So my life goes on.
