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Friday 4:59 PM: Property Manager Final Boss

ricklahkar
May 20
1 min read

Client: It’s turnkey, right? Property Manager: COIs expired, RTU-2 iced over, elevator reset key last seen in 2008 Lender: Please revise capex, add 20% contingency, and explain the ‘roof lake’ on page 47 Me: Renaming the OM to ‘Completely Recoverable Emotions’ and shoving it into CAM 🧾😵‍💫

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