Speaker: ... and we didn't lose anything. We lost some rockets. Lost a package of rockets. Interviewer: That's it? Speaker: Yeah. People were- I don't know where people got type-of-thing. I don't know what the heck they were doing. "Oh everything had to be thrown out! Oh!" And I says, "What did we lose?" Interviewer: Just don't open your freezer.

I said- 'cause, "What happened?" "I lost my rockets!" "What?" "You know those bright flavoured popsicle things? Well that's what we lost." All my pop-- all my rockets were gone. And he said, "Other than that, you lose anything else?" "No, nothing important. No, no-" I says, "Really, everything else is just fine. Chicken's fine. Pork's fine. No, we're good. Thank you very much, we're good."

I went, "Okay fine as long as it's not me. I didn't do it." I says, "It was- don't- can't blame me for turning the air-conditioner on and sucking all the juice up 'cause I wasn't here," type- of-thing. I was up north and there was nothing running up there. I says, "Except for the water-heater, I was using no juice."

Speaker: ... she's got a property out there and I says, "What the heck is she coming back here for?" Interviewer: I get that all the time. "Why are you here?" Speaker: Yeah, I says- I says, "Why is," you-know I mean, "Why are you here? you're gotta- you're out there and you have a property," which supposedly she's renting out there.

This is the story. I don't know if any of it's true. I says, "Why would you come back here," you-know, not like this is hell or anything, but I says, "Why would you come back here when," but I don't know what the circumstances there are and you-know, it could be a cardboard box for all you-know- I don't know. Maybe she's on the run.

... I vaguely remember the name, and I'm trying to think back and I says, "Were you-" I thought, I says, "Where you the one who thought you were a witch?"

Interviewer: So she's probably not on the run. Speaker: And I- but I says, I says, "Is that the," I couldn't remember 'cause I- they gave- she gave me the last name and I thought, "The name sounds vaguely familiar," and I thought, "Oh yeah," and I says, "If that's the same one I hope there's no hocus-pocus going on when," I says, "We don't- I don't need that," type-of-thing but she still wears a lot of black.

Like, you-know, like eighteen-years-old and you already got two kids, you're not married, and I says, "Gee oh yeah, your prospects are good, aren't they! Looking good up here, type-of-thing yeah?" And they'd come up. They do some- they do as much damage as they fix up, so basically I didn't come out ahead when they leave.

... I said, "I saw all those warning signs with the- when the kid came in, type-of-thing." But I was leery when I- I says, "First of all, you sign a lease," but I says, "You don't get a extended lease, you get one year." I said, "I get you down for one year."

I says, "In eight- in ten months, I'll come and see you and we will go over the property and see what you've done. If all is well and fine, we'll look into giving you an- a renewal of your lease ...

He violated five clauses in the lease in the first half-hour he was there, did damage to the property, which, "Oh that wasn't me. The wind did that. Oh, no, no." I was steaming when I left, okay? It wasn't enough to- you- know, to- I says, "I'll take your money. I'll take your money, but I'm gonna stop working on the house. I'll take your money and you have- there's no hope in hell you're gonna get an extension."

So basically yeah, and I didn't have to pay- I says, "We're not gonna work on a cheque basis." I says, "I'm gonna give you a transit number, and you go to the T-D-Bank and you direct deposit to my account okay?" And of course, he's on time. In fact, sometimes he's early, you-know?

... there's supposed to be no wrecked cars on the property. I don't want any. I had- I had to go through that with one tenant. The fir-- that's the first thing the guy did, put twenty cars on the property. And I says, "It took me a while to," I says, "If it wasn't for his- him wife," she got-- she kicked him out for clobbering her, you-know? Kicked him out, and she got rid of the cars for me, you-know? I says, "Good."

... I said, "I don't have to give you a reason why there's no extension on your lease, no," I says, "you're- you're- two months, your term is up, thank you very much, goodbye, and just hope that you haven't done too much damage." So sure enough, two months, I show up. Well he's not there.

... I told him I was gonna be here at this time to re-- review the tenancy type-of-thing and look over the- the digs and see you-know. Well, I says, "Well I'm- I'm just gonna go downstairs and have a look in the basement."

... I close the door again, and the first words are in- out of my mouth, I said, "How many? How many have you got down there?" I says, "I know what you got down there. How many have you got down there?" "Oh well," he says, "I wish you hadn't have done that." He says "it's-" I said, "I was suspect when I came in. I could smell it. Come on.

We shot the breeze for about a half an hour and I says, "Well," He says, "Don't tell so--" I can't remember what the guy's name was. Darren or Darryl or something like this. He says, "Oh don't tell him because it's his birthday. If we tell him they just saw it type-of-thing oh he's gonna be very upset." I says, "Like-" I thought, "Like you give a tinker's damn he's gonna be upset," 'cause the guy confesses that he lost a house um, that he had a grow-op and he lost a house and he still- he says, "Well I got you-know, I went to court."

Speaker: ... he says, "Well I- they charged me with ah trafficking but I beat that rap." But he says, "I still gotta go to- to court for two counts of cultivation." And I says well- Interviewer: Make it three! Speaker: Yeah, well I says, "Well good luck to you son," but he- I mean, he's bragging about losing a house and he says, "Yeah well they claimed I had over a hundred," what is it? Ah. "Two hundred thousand dollars worth of product ...

He said, "I couldn't even sell the property because," so he said, "it's a good thing you kept your mouth shut and you- and you're lucky you got rid of them the way you got rid of them." I says, "Your lease is over, you're gone." And they left amicably type-of- thing, packed up their- packed up their goody.

... that's the only problem with tenants, they don't- I have to go up and maintain it because I tell- you-know, I tell them, Like, like this spring, there's been nobody there all winter, and I went in and I says, "Yeah there's a bit damp- dampness." But every tenant you-know, they- ah the previous tenant, she- her husband or, at that- at the time was, was mechanic and she was- she always seemed to be doing laundry. Every time I showed up, lau-- she was doing laundry.