New Yorkers are notorious for avoiding their neighbors like the plague. In this episode, we'll put on our hazmat suits and venture behind the anonymous doors across the hall. In part two, we'll hear the story of neighborly etiquette...or lack thereof. (DISCLAIMER: This episode was recorded and edited in 2018. Some content and cultural references are extremely dated.)
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There is no such thing as a good landlord, but god-awful landlords are available in abundance. We've all been without hot water at one point or played the "ground-is-hot-lava-so-your-couch-is-your-new-home" game upon discovering a family of cockroaches under the kitchen sink. In all these times, we are beholden to our landlords, however unreliable they might be. But if you want to feel better about whatever situation you've got going on, listen to the tale of an apartment that was too good to be true and the landlord who ruined it all. You'll want to call your landlord and say "thank you" at the end of this saga.
The Randolph Courtisans, Joanie (left) and Julia (right)
When we last left off, our heroines were about to brave the labyrinth of the Philadelphia Small Claims Court system. To wrap up this tale, we follow them through their legal proceedings, a settlement that isn’t too much to write home about and a well-earned victory taco.
Unfortunately, no one can dig up any photos of the apartment unit in question. In absence of photographic evidence of George and Louise’s hellscape, we here at David Pay My Rent offer as a humble substitution some photos of our lives in and around other parts of the Randolph Court. You can get a sense of the peculiar layout, the surrounding environs and, most of all, our happy little corner in the city of sisterly love.
Four years after this idea was conceived and two years after episode one was completed, we’ve come to the end of the line. What separates the fourth and final episode of David Pays My Rent from the rest is that it was written and recorded in 2020 - and not just in 2020, but also within the past two weeks. This finale episode takes a look at how the absurdities of renting an apartment wait for no person and no pandemic. Back in April, everyone thought that the Covid pandemic would put life on pause. But in these uncertain times, the one thing you can be certain of is that the New York City rental market will always reach unprecedented heights. In today’s episode, we hear a harrowing story of how life and death in the time of Corona can uncover mysteries that were just on the other side of our paper-thin apartment walls.
