fo lie a deux
Judy and Lloyd are the husband and wife team at Laurel Lane Apt's. Judy is the
official landlord but of course her husband helps out but is not paid. Vera
their daughter along with other members of the clan also live here. By clan I
mean they are the typical deep south rednecks and they call themselves ---
haters. Although daily swimmers they will stay out of the pool for days after
the aforementioned has taken a swim.
Well it used to be a duo running this place but now Vera has fully taken on her
parents characteristics and we now have a trio. Vera cleans the pool, locks the
laundry room and pool gates at 9pm. Opens the special gate for the garbage
truck-an all around helper. Unfortunately she has morphed into a carbon copy of
the original duo. Once a sweet affable all around good guy she now walks with
her head down, sometimes muttering to herself and now barks out orders to her
children and can sometimes be heard shouting at her son and daughter. The once
daily swims are far less frequent.
The pool thing may be because tenants are moving out at such a rapid clip the
parking lot at night is as barren as it used to look during the day when people
were at work. Also recently so many cars have been vandalized some
tenants[myself included] are hiding their cars parking at the supermarket, the
bank or on the street etc.
Judy let most people live here on a month to month basis but is now insisting
everyone sign a lease in return for a $60 reduction in rent. Trouble is she's
renting the vacant apartments for $120 less!! No one who has learned this is
very happy with their one year leases. In the 3 years I have lived here there
has never been more then one blaackk tenant as I'm surmising that was enough to
ward off discrimination charges from the Phoenix Housing Authority.
All of a sudden 2 new blaack families show up in one week. Over the period of
the past month-two Asian families- two darker skinned families that are
definitely from India or Pakistan and Mexican's everywhere! We never ever had a
Mexican here. I suspect the clan is giving up the pool as it never gets a chance
now to "purify" itself.
Vera has a third child Rebecca who used to live here. We were very friendly. She
is the prettiest girl in the family by far. She could have a string of
boyfriends. She told me she had to get out because Judy and Vera were ruining
her life. Even though she had a separate apartment J&V were constantly hovering
over her baby daughter which also meant they were constantly in Rebecca's
presence.
This led to a barrage of where were you's, who were you with, where did you go,
How come you were out so late last night, what did you do? Etc.
She once told me when they double teamed her, she would turn away from them,
clench her fists and close her eyes and scream silently. Eventually she would
tell anyone who would listen "There's no privacy here, There's no privacy
here, I never have a moment to myself. I've got to get out"
Eventually she did, leaving her 4 month old baby with Judy the great grand
momma. Vera was holding down two jobs and to busy. Vera was fired from both jobs
[definitely not layed off] about 9 months after Rebecca left. It turned out to
be the perfect 24 hour job for Judy. Now she had an excuse to totally ignore her
responsibilities as the landlord.
Enter the "Dragon" Lloyd the cat killer and his sidekick the --- kissing
tyrannical incompetent fully empowered and enabled maintaince man. A new member
of the clan to replace "the deserter" who never once came back for a visit
without her boyfriend, I guess to act as a buffer from the newly restructured
clan.
To be continued next Wedneday-June 24
PS-Judy will accept cash for anything. 99.99% of other apartment complexes
refuse to take cash and insist on money orders only except for the rent check !
Wonder why?