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.


 
 

ALMOST NAKED

by Bert Stratton

Courtlin passed out in the apartment lobby, so a cop called me: “He [Courtlin] set up a picnic on your landing with some 24-ouncers,” the cop said.

socks“My custodian says he’s naked.”

“To his credit, Courtlin has his socks on,” the cop said.

A  tenant discovered Courtlin an hour earlier in the lobby. I told the tenant the trespasser was fairly harmless — no felony convictions, just criminal trespassing and disorderly conducts. She was OK with that; she didn’t say “I’m moving,” which would have been in line.

The cop said, “He goes to the well — apartment lobbies — for a while until he’s arrested, then he goes someplace else.”

The criminal hearing is in a couple weeks.

. . . Done. He got three days in jail. He’ll be back.
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4 comments

1 Mark Schilling { 08.03.16 at 9:39 am }

“…have been in line”?
Not quite haiku, but it would easily make a Bukowski-esque poem.

2 Bert Stratton { 08.03.16 at 9:53 am }

To Mark Schilling:

Thanks for finding the typo. Now reads “Would have been in line.”

3 Seth B. Marks { 08.03.16 at 3:00 pm }

uh, where were the rest of his clothes. Does he spend the winters in Florida?

4 Dave Rowe { 08.03.16 at 4:49 pm }

The guy reminds me of Otis on the Andy Griffith Show.

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