the rix mix

I need to come up with an extra $1000 to $1500 between now & April if I'm serious about getting out of this apartment. It's certainly possible. That top amount happens to be what I owe my former landlord, who still offers refuge to the eavesdropping, perverted, snoring madman residing directly over my old apartment. The owner of this building, while basically a nice guy, either doesn't have the will or the wherewithal to push the quality of the digs up a few notches to attract better tenants & present complacent people like me with a challenge to find something better. Because right now "better" probably won't be a difficult task in Elizabeth - we'll see about Rahway. He would definitely have to hire an exterminator with a serious strategy to rid this building of pests; rehabilitate the mailboxes or install new ones; & it would be a nice extra to provide a laundry room. Most of the tenants here seem to be pretty decent people; some deadbeats & druggies are gone but it remains to be seen who fills those vacancies. Nothing can be done about the intersection, but he can think in terms of making this place nearly as good the alternatives one block up & around the corner on Stiles.

The red star is my building. The red markers are "problem" buildings that make this corner so troublesome. The blue markers are apartments that are clearly better than the one I'm in. More blue marker apartments are off lower hand corner in Elmora.

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