MLC Properties, Chicago, IL

Hi Everyone,

It has been awhile. Wow, what a tough year so far! We are having the same problems you and the rest of the country's having. We all have to keep on going and hope that something positive will break soon. I know it will, I’m an optimist.

The banks however have really been looking at our books, so please pay the rent on time. They will NOT tolerate the rent being paid late. We have had more evictions in the last six months than we have had in the last nine years. Enough of that.

I hope you had a good summer. The weather was kind of weird but still enjoyable. As I do every year at this time, we need to go over a few things. Actually, a lot of things, since you have not heard from me for a long time. Winter will be here before you know it. Please take out all your air conditioners (not Glenwood). Put up plastic if you think air is getting in through the windows. Everything must be taken off the porches (including bikes). I say this every year and some of you get mad when we throw your stuff out. You will have until Oct. 19^th. After that we will toss out anything on the porches until March 20^th.

The city/county heat temperatures are as follows: 68 degrees from 8:30am- 10:30pm and 66 degrees from 10:30pm-8:30am. Please change your batteries in your smoke/Co2 detectors (not Glenwood). YOU ALL HAVE THEM. We have been fined four times for over flowing the garbage dumpsters. The fine is $500.00. (the city needs money) Please, if one dumpster is full, walk to the other one and put your garbage in that one. We have plenty of dumpsters. And don’t leave your garbage in the hallways or on the back porches.

We have almost tripled our cost of extermination this year. We have had more complaints about Roaches and now Bed Bugs. As you have probably heard the entire city is having a Bed Bug problem. Thank God we are not. As you know, Roaches and Bed Bugs are not caused by the landlord. It is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to have a clean home. Because of this ongoing problem, we will now be doing home inspections to make sure that your home is clean and bug free. We will notify you in advance.

Your neighbors should not have to deal with bugs caused by you. We will also check at that time how many people are living in the apartment. Only those on the lease can occupy the apartment. If you do have a problem with Roaches /Bed Bugs, it is extremely important that you notify us to help you. We have an information sheet about Bed Bugs in the office that we could give or email you. People, no one should have to live with bugs, KEEP YOUR HOME CLEAN and don’t take in any used furniture or clothing.

All the buildings have laundry facilities (not Pine) for your convenience and should be used and kept clean. Security is getting better. You are questioning people who you feel don’t belong, you are calling the police if you see someone kicking in the doors, and you are notifying us if you feel a tenant is having too many people coming and going. We thank you. Keep up the good work. Remember to keep all doors closed. If we feel something is going on illegally in the building, the city has made it the landlords responsibility to notify the police, DCFS, etc...and we will. We take the responsibility of giving our tenants a safe place to live very seriously.

Lastly, we don’t know if you have a problem if you don’t communicate with us. We are at the office from 10:30am-5:00 pm, M-F and 10:30am-3:00pm on Saturday, 773-262-7555. I am usually in the office after 2:30pm. We are always available via email at office@mlcproperties.com

Oh, I almost forgot. Fargo people, please pick up your dogs poop. We will not!

Take Care,

Marty

Flossmoor NEWSLETTER 10/2009

Hi Everyone,

I’m sorry it’s been so long. I know it has been a pretty rough road for all of us. I feel it will break soon and we all will be doing better. We all have to hang in there. The bank however, like most businesses, is really looking at our books. That is why we need to have the rent on time. We have to submit our accounts receivables (rent) every two months.

Enough of that. I hope you had a good summer. The weather was a little weird but still enjoyable. Our restaurant, “Fresh Starts” had outside seating for the first time. I hope you were able to enjoy it. Unfortunately we now have to start thinking of colder weather and the “W” word (winter).

Over the summer we installed a new and bigger hot water tank. We also did some roof repairs along with just finishing tuck pointing a great portion of the building. Hopefully, this will solve some of the leakage that we had in some of our units.

Please take out all air conditioners. If you feel that air is coming through your windows, please put up plastic over your windows. Please change your batteries in your smoke/Co2 detectors. We also had the carpet cleaned (you wouldn’t know it) in the hallways. The skid marks you see are from bicycles. We don’t know what all the spots are from. I’m asking all of you to help keep our building clean. I personally have seen people put their garbage outside there door and noticed the bag is leaking onto the carpet. The laundry room also needs to be attended to a little better.

We would appreciate your help. We want to have the garage cleaned also. If you have anything in your space (other than your car), against the wall, etc. please remove it. The city has advised us we can not have anything but cars in the garage. We’ll give you a few weeks and then we will assume whatever’s left can be thrown out. We have received a few complaints about people not parking in there assigned spots.

Also, the Flossmoor police will ticket anyone being seen backing out from the garage onto Flossmoor Road. Those of you who have to change a fuse, please throw out the old ones. Do not put the old ones back on the table. That is unfair to the next person. I know, that’s a lot of stuff, sorry.

Please don’t forget to support the stores in our building and in the town. It is up to all of us to support the "little guy".

We want to welcome "AN'S Village Cleaners" and Troy Price to our building. We asked what was missing in our building and a lot of you said a cleaners. This is An’s third store. Troy Price took over the attorney’s office and is a mortgage broker who believe it or not, is able to get mortgages.

We are still working on getting the coffee shop open. Tell them you live upstairs. If you need us, you can call us at 773-262-7555 or email us at office@mlcproperties.com (we prefer email)