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There's a new Tumblr blog getting passed around the interwebz here in Chicago: Stranger Than Eviction, which features some harrowing, bizarre tales of, well, we'll let the blog's creator explain it.
I am making this site to chronicle the craziest living situation I have ever taken part in. In the month that I subletted a room in this house in St. Charles (a suburb of Chicago), the police have come to the house 5 times, my landlord has been handcuffed twice, and one roommate has been hospitalized. The focus is on my crazy landlord, Gary. Gary is a 63 year old, currently unemployed, overweight, homeowner who enjoys a frequent alcoholic beverage and cigarette. I believe he had bought this house with the intention of selling it for a quick profit. This did not work out, and last I’ve heard the house is going under foreclosure in September.
Whether insane incidents like this are real or not hardly matters as, at the very least, the site is a funny, vulgar read. And, given the experiences some of us have had, we wouldn't be shocked if all of it was true.
Thanks to the numerous tips from readers. The site is also linked at Windy Citizen.
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Gary just LOOKS like the kind of guy who went to a "get rich in real estate" seminar and bought the house at exactly the WRONG time to flip it.
Man, I would hate to have that guy as a landlord. I bet he would regail you with stories about his failed internet start-up which was just web-site his son made for him on lycos and his new "venture" into the get-rich- working-from-home business that only sells other get-rich-working-from-home informational brochures.
Although that blog is really poorly designed. Can't he just get a wordpress account instead of having advertisements on his site? Is he trying to make money off of this mediocre concept of a website? Maybe him and Gary have more in common than they think.
And why are there two different photos of Gary showing two completely different people?
Oh it's a tumblr blog. I see.
How great is the word "shenanigans". i think my new favorite word is shenaniganery
Wow. I had a crappy landlord experience when I first moved to Chicago 3 years ago, but this guy beats my story by a mile. All I had was a broke meth addict who was also on percocet, paxil, and viagra; this guy is just plain crazy.
did he work for the Wirtz family?
I don't recall him having a job at all. I'm guessing the meth habit had something to do with that.