Real Music & Real Estate . . .

Yiddishe Cup’s bandleader, Bert Stratton, is Klezmer Guy.
 

He knows about the band biz and – check this out – the real estate biz, too.
 

You may not care about the real estate biz. Hey, you may not care about the band biz. (See you.)
 

This is a blog with a gamy twist. It features tenants with snakes and skunks, and musicians with smoked fish in their pockets.
 

Stratton has written op-eds for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Washington Post.


 
 

LAKE EFFECT

by Bert Stratton

“I’m going to take legal action.” That’s a favorite line from the intelligent disgruntled tenant.  The favorite line from the average tenant is profanity.  The favorite line from a  23-year-old is “That’s really sketchy.”

Go ahead and sue me.

As my father used to say, “Let them call me pisher (a nobody, a little squirt).  Who cares.”

Ninety-nine percent of the time, nobody sues.

My father once withheld payment from moonlighting cops who botched up a floor- sanding job.  That flabbergasted me — messing with cops.  It didn’t faze my father.  “Let them call me pisher.”

The cops really screwed up that floor.  It rippled like Lake Erie on a bad day. We had to go to carpet.

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1 comment

1 John M. Urbancich { 06.27.09 at 11:34 pm }

I’m stealin’ this stuff for a screenplay. Go ahead and sue me!
By the way, Mushy Wexler’s kin might do that to you. I’m not sure you can call him a mobster just because all the mobsters hung out at his Theatrical Grill.
Too funny, particulary if Alice shows up to lead my kid’s wedding march!
–jmu

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