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Rent Review 2016

It’s that wonderful time of the year again.  Rent Review Yippee!  This year the rent review package was dated July 29 and I didn’t receive it in the mail until Aug 10.  Included was a unsigned letter from UNH’s requesting I sign a release of Information re: Native status.   After I examine the handwriting I notice it was from HSC Ingrid Nosel.  This annoyed me so I sent a reply back that I will not sign the form unless they comply to my instructions.  Back in January 2016 I notified UNH’s office via fax I have obtained my native status.  I requested the necessary form to be mailed to me then we can put this issue to rest.   So here we are 8 months later and I never received the form in the mail from UNH’s.  So who fucked up!  Sure as hell wasn’t me!  There is a earlier blog announcing I received my native status it was one of my highlights of the New Year. 
After carefully examining the contents in the UNH’s rent review package this is what I find.  Photocopy documents and forms that are old and outdated.  A staff name and signature are nowhere to be found.  Letterheads that state UNH’s is located at the old address.  The rent review forms that need to be filled out by me were simple and straight forward I completed it in one afternoon.
Since the beginning of 2016 UNH’s management correspondence and accountability is practically nonexistent.   Oh did I say years ago UNH’s was a Mickey Mouse operation!…..You can bet on it.  I strongly recommend UNH’s upgrade their stationary and for obvious reasons the UNH’s chairperson and board members vote on a new administration office team.  Fire them all, it’s time for a reboot.
And now for the scoop of the month.  You readers may notice there is tension between the H.O.W. Lynda Jones and I.  A few years ago I called her out at a meeting about her poor job performance (I wrote a blog about it) and today I still stand by my words.  In retaliation she wrote a misleading report on the events that happened at the meeting which only escalated the animosity.   
Last week I finally observed Lynda Jones true character away from the KMHC building.  Picture this - I’m walking southbound on the other side of the street about a block away from home when I notice Lynda leaving the building for the day.  Walking fast northbound she sees me on the other side of the street, with a snarly grin she flashes her middle finger up at my direction then proceeds to her bus stop.  I shook my head in disgust because her gesture is moronic.  Usually cheap hookers on Barton Street give that gesture to johns who don’t pick them up.  Way to Go Lynda!  Are you moonlighting after work!   The next day a female tenant elder & I were coming from the Jet Café doing a coffee run when suddenly there’s Lynda walking up the street, the tenant elder says hello to her.  She ignored the greeting with her nose in the air, the tenant elder was offended.  Meanwhile I was just hoping Lynda would walk into a street pole but no such luck.  :P
This summer couldn’t be better the other day I received some excellent news in the mail that I will share on a later blog post and a historic occasion is coming up….my birthday.  :D

Until next time.  

Tk

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