You can relax. Governor Hochul has requested an additional $996m additional funding for the state ERAP program from the federal Treasury Department. Your ERAP request will be granted shortly. Just kidding. I have requested ERAP funding for my resident who owes $3,000 and received $877 in funding. Ditto, my resident who received $7,500 and then …
Here is a text exchange between me and a tenant who lives in a POH in my park in northern New York. Her husband or boyfriend is the brother of a woman named Fatima, who I have written about before (Fatima is the woman who hit the jackpot when her husband tried to kill himself …
Last night, a call came in from a contractor named Adam who is doing some work on a home in my park in central New York while I was talking with my wife. I ignored it. After I finished speaking with the Boss, I noticed that he had not left a voice message, and so …
Hid Your Own Easter Eggs Here are two quotes from recent client interactions: You know my name. I came to this country when I was nine years old, I am a very successful business man, and my net worth is greater than a hundred million dollars. I am insulted that you would suggest that I …
(The following was written while I was on hold, waiting to speak with an ERAP operator.) “Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else—if you run very fast for a long time, as we’ve been doing.” “A slow sort of country!” said the Queen. “Now, here, you …
-I think lobotomies should be allowed in some cases. -Dad! -Really. -Like, who? -The guy who sucker-punched Mike. -He needs treatment. -Far away from Mike and the rest of his neighbors. -He is bipolar! -He is dangerous. That’s me and my son. He and his little sibling had just made a snarky reference to lobotomies. …
Jack Welch divided the universe of workers in any organization along two axes, each comprising a binary on-off feature, i.e. competent/incompetent and drinks-the-Kool-Aid/doesn’t-drink-the-Kool-Aid (he did not say “drinks the Kool Aid”, because he had a vested interest in having people drink his Kool Aid. He said “With the program”. A less weighted formulation would be …
I have written about the New York Emergency Rental Assistance Program, or ERAP, before. It is the program through which New York State is trying to distribute the funds allocated therefor by the federal government under the December, 2020 and March, 2021 COVID relief bills. Funds given to New York are being distributed by the …
Subject: My Job So – I’m being replaced? That’s an email that I received two days ago from J.B., the maintenance guy at my park in central New York. He had seen an ad that I had placed on Craigslist, looking for a maintenance guy. Of course, I did not mention the park by name …
-He said by the tree. Do you see any others? -What is it? -I don’t know. A willow. -Where are the leaves? -It must be dead. -No more weeping. -Or perhaps it’s not the season. -Looks to me more like a bush. -A shrub. -A bush. -A- What are you insinuating? That we’ve come to …