The Leak (5) & Fox Management Group Defaults, OWES OVER $3,500! (#381)

One final note on the recent flood:
Ironically, Mara is well aware of MY qualifications to handle plumbing problems due to my experience as a shabbos goy for my orthodox buddies' families while growing up in Brooklyn!

For those of you who are not Jewish, a shabbos goy is a non-Jew or goyim who handles things like turning lights, stoves, air conditioners, etc. on and off, running errands, and doing things the orthodox aren't permitted to do between sundown Friday and sundown Saturday, aka the Sabbath, since orthodox Jews are not permitted to perform work of any sort during that period.
(Activating or deactivating electric devices is equated with creating or dousing fire and is classified as "work".)
Among the things I had to do was manually start and/or stop various furnaces and boilers including gas, oil, and even coal burning ones!
(It was the late 60s-early 70s and most of the homes were 50 years old or older, and none had timers on most of their devices!)

I had mentioned this at one of the first meetings M & I attended when I asked why we didn't have access to the boiler room in case of emergency.
Mara, at that point, said that Eddie's having the only key was a requirement of the condo's insurance policy.
We acquired a copy of the policy, our lawyer reviewed it, and discovered no such codicil.
As you may have guessed, relations with Fox have been downhill ever since.

I could have turned off the heating without cutting hot water for bathing and washing, since I had no access to the boiler controls, I had no choice but to cut power to both boilers at the source circuit
breaker. (They're both on the same circuit!)

Tuesday's total for Fox Management Group's still-unpaid bill from July, 2008 (over a year ago, now!)...$3,557.47 from an original $75!
They've broken the $3,500 level!
Now that the 1% per workday cumulative late fee is over $35, it's really mounting up, at a rate of $175+ a week! That's more than double the amount they originally owed!
It's over 375 (THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE) late charges, and now the amount (with late fees) is almost 47 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!