Posted in Renting, Travelogue on 05/19/2010 03:57 pm by Daniel Hagan
I’ve been spending a lot of time in the new apartment that I leased in Braintree, MA lately. It’s a bit outside of the city, and on Sunday I had the windows open while I worked on some furniture. it wasn’t until later on in the day that I realized how much I had missed just hearing wind in the trees and birds chirping. it’s funny how insulated from everything you can become when you spend all your time in high rise hotels.
I’m really looking forward to summer in the Boston area. 
Posted in Renting on 10/13/2006 01:00 am by Daniel Hagan
I moved into the Village at Whitehall apartment complex in October of 2004. The complex is located in Fairmont West Virginia and is managed by CZS Developments LLC. It was an uneventful move into an uneventful complex. Over the last two years, the property manager has issued open letters to the tenants on an increasing basis. The letters were generally reminders about basic things like “don’t let your pipes freeze in the winter!” Their biggest impact was imparting a warm fuzzy feeling of having a surrogate mother nearby.
As the summer of 2005 wore on, it became clear that the proerty manager was becoming increasing concerned over matters which seemed disconnected to my experiences at the complex. (For example, the letter on September 20, 2006 was largely concerned with parking, an ongoing obsession for the management of the complex.) Then, on September 25th, 2006 we all received an open letter with a major revelation in it.
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