Stories From The Tenants Downstairs Quotes

and the grass, if it grew at all, grew derelict out of the concrete like trash salad. I’m not sayin

See, the problem is when you old, everybody think you satisfied with the livin you’ve done. They like to think of you as perfumed in dry piss waitin for your call to sunset. Never mind you could have a whole twenty years left. They’ll still act like your back is crooked. You think I just come out here to expire?

The girl downstairs at Thirteenth Street? Her momma done called the building inspector….Her mother was outside talking shit!” Quentin listened to the story and said, “Put her out.” Sherrena thought about it for a moment, then agreed. She reached in a drawer and began filling out a five-day eviction notice. The law forbade landlords from retaliating against tenants who contacted DNS. But landlords could at any time evict tenants for being behind on rent or for other violations.