The Leak (2) & Fox Management Group Defaults, OWES OVER $3,400! (#377)

On Monday, while waiting for the plumbers, I e-mailed M...

Just had an interesting conversation with Mara Feldman-Fox.
Besides claiming I didn't say there was a leak in the ceiling (which you were there to hear), she blames me for our lack of access to the boiler room in case of emergency.
Instead of everyone having access to the boiler room with a clear set of emergency instructions posted by the boiler, art therapist Eddie Foss (who has no practical training in heating or plumbing) is the only on-site person with the only key to the boiler room.
(Mara claims off-site maintenance people have the key, but we don't have their number.)
Since Eddie's presence is infrequent at best (We were without hot water for several days last year when he couldn't be found, despite the fact Mara knew about the situation and apparently could reach Eddie or any maintenence people!), the clearest course of action was to stop the leak immediately.
If access to the boiler and clear instructions had been provided, I possibly could have shut off the heating system without shutting off the hot water for sinks and showers.
Thus, with a leak that couldn't be shut off from the unit itself, I had no choice but to find a way to shut down the boiler.
Without smashing thru the boiler room door, the obvious solution was to cut power to the boiler unit to stop it's pumping.
Luckily, the clearly-labeled circuit-breaker panel for the common area in the basement of '58 enabled me to cut power only to the boiler, not other common-area sections or any of the units.

The plumbers have arrived.
E-mail later.

More Fox Management fun tomorrow!

Wednesday's total for Fox Management Group's still-unpaid bill from July, 2008 (over a year ago, now!)...$3,418.66 from an original $75!
They've broken the $3,400 level!
Now that the 1% per workday cumulative late fee is over $33, it's really mounting up, at a rate of $170+ a week! That's more than the amount they originally owed!
It's over 375 (THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE) late charges, and now the amount (with late fees) is over 40 times the original bill...
Is that just pitiful, or what?
I hope for her sake that Mara's better with her library books and DVD rentals! ;-)
Personally, I think she's a terrible role model for her kids, demonstrating financial irresponsibility (not to mention arrogant stupidity) as being a good thing!