NOTHIN'

I sent my letter to the landlord, telling him that he has 30 days to cure the problems he has in his building or to make an effort to start on the repairs. I am still waiting for the inspectors to come out to issue violation notices.

He has called me asking to come to look at the amount of work his "contractors" did so he could pay them, and each of the three days in a row that I have told him I was going to be there, he never showed. The last time I told him I would be there at 5:30 pm, and he was 2 cars in front of me, and drove right by as I was pulling up to the restaurant at 5:25 pm. Then I called him 10 minutes later, and he said he was there but I wasn't. He is so full of shit.

He has no intention of honoring the lease agreement we have. I spoke with my lawyers who told me that I have a pretty good chance of winning my case in court if I sue him for my losses. And I intend on doing that. He will have to evict me at this point. And he probably will. And I will withhold rent until he does. And in court we will have our day. And unfortunately, for him, he is liable to me for actual damages, consequential damages, and potential loss of profits. And since I had a 2 year lease, with two-2 year options beyond that, he is risking losing a lot more than it would have taken him to remodel his property.

He will have fun defending himself in court, and I will have fun should the building inspectors find his building condemnable. It will be even more fun should he lose his building to the city due to their exercising eminent domain, and then me buying the place and fixing it up right. But I won't pay what the guy was asking for it. I will pay like less than half.

Wishful thinking. I doubt it will turn out that way. The guy will pay his fines, and patch his walls and rent the place to some other person, without knowing what they are getting into.

And in the meantime, I am out for a year, which is about how long the lawyers say it will take for us to get to court and trial. Eh, yet again, I'll find a place. It may take a while, to recover from the loss of this, but I will find a place. Florida is so much easier, licensing wise. But there is this one lot, I have been looking at for years, and I ask every year at least once, for the lease, but so far have been denied. It's right across the street from this HUGE park. How nice that would be!