title: Tenant's Revenge: How To Tame Your Landlord
author:  Andy Kane 
description: Longtime Paladin author Andy Kane can say things that too few of us can. Things such as, "If I were to die tomorrow, I believe I will have gotten my money's worth out of this life." Kane (whose vocabulary doesn't include the words "Maybe I shouldn't . . .") has devoted his life to enjoying every minute of it. A Realtor and landlord, he has judged a Miss Nude World contest (and was paid to do it), driven at Daytona International Speedway and other famous tracks, caddied at the U.S. Open and lived many other fantasies that the average many other fantasies that the average Joe only dreams of.
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  ## The Menagerie of Babel
  
  
    
  
  
  ### Картер Шольц
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Carter Scholz
  
  
  ## The Menagerie Of Babel
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I was living then in a cottage behind a ramshackle house in the Berkeley
  hills. Most of my ready cash had gone for three months' rent in advance. I
  could have had the basement for less, but when I saw it I balked. Half the
  floor was dirt, the other half worm-eaten boards. Through one filthy window
  fell the glaucous light of a Manhattan airshaft at dawn. It was a tomb. I knew
  that my asceticism was not equal to it. And I wanted at most three months. So
  I took the cottage. It was one room fifteen feet on a side, without
  electricity or plumbing.
  
  
  My landlord lived in the main house. He was a law-school dropout with an
  overbearing manner that collapsed the moment I resisted it. Then he was almost
  unctuous. His name was Peter Fraser. He rented the house, and sublet rooms in
  it. I guessed that because of his manner he ha