Photos By John HoffHere are some pictures I took in North Minneapolis of a "stupid property repair," these involving venetian blinds...
In the top photo, the brackets for the blind were already in place, but along comes Mr. Slumlord...well, his name was almost certainly Kevin T. Freeman...and he has a blind which is bigger than the brackets. What does he do? He just kind of jams one side of the blind into the bracket.
Then, perhaps, he muttered something like, "Good enough for renters."
In the bottom photo--which, yeah, I know the image is crap--he didn't bother with brackets at all...just screwed the blind directly to the window frame.
Bad slumlord. BAD BAD BAD!!!!!!!
Did all those generations of Venetian citizens toil away pushing boats through the streets, waiting for one of their own to invent the clever venetian blind...just so you, Kevin T. Freeman, could do...THIS?!!
My favorite thing is when I see a window from the outside that is tastefully covered in a set of blinds that looks like it has been through the wood chipper, each vein of the blind is bent, broken, missing, amputated, etc. - lovely charm of the slum property, the landlord and the sloppy tenants deserve each other.
ReplyDeleteI always tell my customers that you can tell alot about both the condition of the property and the tenants from the curb. The destroyed blinds (or lack thereof) is a huge give away!
ReplyDeleteThe first whiff of WHATEVER that hits you from the front door says a lot early on, too!
ReplyDeleteyes! - you are all right - the window 'treatments' and the wave of air that hits as the door opens tells alot about a house and it's occupants! LMAO
ReplyDeleteFor a short while I had a roommate who was so unintelligent he could not operate a venetian blind. I tried mightily to instruct him from the sidelines, but he was so dense as to have been unable to follow directions. He actually broke the blinds in his room by pulling them from their mooring on the wall, in the process breaking one of the horizontal strips, giving it that trashy ghetto look. He was gone from the residence in short order, but in his short time there he also broke the foot-actuated flip-top garbage can, and the sliding closet door. It was a learning experience for me, for now I know how this stuff happens. No more experiments in "diversity" for me!
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