National Screw Mark Day!
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 4:14 pm
Hi,
You can tell today is Monday. Either that it's national 'try and screw Mark' day! I tell ya, I was born at night, but it wasn't last night!
I manage a mobile home park that has 210 units. I just had a tenant move up from Texas and bought an old home already in the Park. On the phone I told them that they owe $260 for a deposit and partial for September.
In a couple days he stopped by the office and said he had $260 in cash. At that moment we were busy as all get-out, and wrote out the receipt. While he was still in the office, we counted the money and realized he was $100 short. He verbally acknowledged the error, apologized and said he'd be back later today or tomorrow with the other $100. OK, fine, here in South Dakota we take a persons word.
So he left, and he also left with the written cash receipt of $260. Of course he never showed back up with the extra $100. Now its time to pay October's rent, and I said we still need the $100 from last month. He said it was paid and showed me the written receipt.
About then my blood hit a boiling level. So I reminded them of the details of his last visit, which he of course denied everything. I said we made an error -- an honest error by giving you a receipt for the wrong amount. They didn't seem to care. Then I really lost it . . .
I said I don't know what its like where you come from, but I said out here in the sticks of South Dakota, a persons words and actions mean more than what's written on paper. If you've come to our town to try and screw people, then you won't last very long around here.
Of course I couldn't shut-up there. I then said you seem to have shown your true colors, and I don't like them. If you want to enforce this written receipt, that's fine. It's legally binding. I then said I will cancel your lease with us, and you'll have 30 days to move your home to another court (all our leases are month-to-month cancellable for any reason by either party with a 30-day notice). I said I do not desire tenants who will screw you at any chance they get.
So I finally shut-up. They said they'd get back to me. The husband was the one who came in with the cash, but this time the wife did most of the talking. I'm betting the husband pocketed the $100 and hoping he could first double it at the local casino, then come back to pay me. Then when he lost it, he showed his wife the receipt and lied about the visit. Ggggrrrr.
Now another incident of trying to screw Mark. I sold a furnace pressure switch to a person from our website. After they received the switch, he writes and says he now doesn't need it, so wants to return it. Fine, we take returns as long as it wasn't installed and its in the original packaging. Well, he returns his old defective switch hoping we wouldn't notice and give him a refund! Not only could an 8-year-old tell it was installed, but the switches we send have a different manufacturer number on them.
I tell ya, some people.
Anyone else get screwed or about get screwed recently?
Mark
You can tell today is Monday. Either that it's national 'try and screw Mark' day! I tell ya, I was born at night, but it wasn't last night!
I manage a mobile home park that has 210 units. I just had a tenant move up from Texas and bought an old home already in the Park. On the phone I told them that they owe $260 for a deposit and partial for September.
In a couple days he stopped by the office and said he had $260 in cash. At that moment we were busy as all get-out, and wrote out the receipt. While he was still in the office, we counted the money and realized he was $100 short. He verbally acknowledged the error, apologized and said he'd be back later today or tomorrow with the other $100. OK, fine, here in South Dakota we take a persons word.
So he left, and he also left with the written cash receipt of $260. Of course he never showed back up with the extra $100. Now its time to pay October's rent, and I said we still need the $100 from last month. He said it was paid and showed me the written receipt.
About then my blood hit a boiling level. So I reminded them of the details of his last visit, which he of course denied everything. I said we made an error -- an honest error by giving you a receipt for the wrong amount. They didn't seem to care. Then I really lost it . . .
I said I don't know what its like where you come from, but I said out here in the sticks of South Dakota, a persons words and actions mean more than what's written on paper. If you've come to our town to try and screw people, then you won't last very long around here.
Of course I couldn't shut-up there. I then said you seem to have shown your true colors, and I don't like them. If you want to enforce this written receipt, that's fine. It's legally binding. I then said I will cancel your lease with us, and you'll have 30 days to move your home to another court (all our leases are month-to-month cancellable for any reason by either party with a 30-day notice). I said I do not desire tenants who will screw you at any chance they get.
So I finally shut-up. They said they'd get back to me. The husband was the one who came in with the cash, but this time the wife did most of the talking. I'm betting the husband pocketed the $100 and hoping he could first double it at the local casino, then come back to pay me. Then when he lost it, he showed his wife the receipt and lied about the visit. Ggggrrrr.
Now another incident of trying to screw Mark. I sold a furnace pressure switch to a person from our website. After they received the switch, he writes and says he now doesn't need it, so wants to return it. Fine, we take returns as long as it wasn't installed and its in the original packaging. Well, he returns his old defective switch hoping we wouldn't notice and give him a refund! Not only could an 8-year-old tell it was installed, but the switches we send have a different manufacturer number on them.
I tell ya, some people.
Anyone else get screwed or about get screwed recently?
Mark