... 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.

wAnd I go- and- and then I pull out the lint- the lint trap and see you-know, it's choc covered full and I go, "You can't do this!" I says, "Don't- don't you know?" And dog hair, 'cause she had a dog with short, short hair, and it was- I- it was both you-know, there's white hair type-of-thing. I knew the dog hair and the- and the lint ...

... and I went, "Well," I says, "I can understand the dog hair," but she used- they used to- she had a- there was a wood burning stove down and they used to cut up the wood and they had little wood chips and stuff like this would flow in there as well. So, I says, "Well done." I says, "Hey, no- no floods," and you-know, and I hit- there was a thermometer downstairs with a humidity. I says, "Humidity's at fifty-percent," okay?

And I know the basement had flooded because I could see the water marks where the- where it had flooded, so even I- I says- I asked him. I says, "So the basement flood?" "Oh yeah, once." And I knew exactly how deep it got in the basement-

... I could see the water line. I says, "Okay I know," which is one- one of the things I had to fix in- because people would do that, I had to raise the furnace off the floor, because it was a retroed- retroed furnace. My- when it was put in, it was wood. Wood stove. Wood burning.

... and says, "Oh the furnace has crapped out," and whatever like that. I says, "I gotta call- phone somebody." I says, "To heck with that." I says, you-know, I mean, "I- I've made enough money on it," type-of-thing. I- the farm has made me enough money type-of-thing. I says, "I 'll- I'm gonna buy- buy a whole new burner type-of-thing, because I'm not gonna try and fix that."

And this is like in F-- this is like the beginning of February. The coldest months here. You-know like, you-know. So I says, "Okay," and my father says, he says, "Geez we better do something. You-know, we gotta do something in a hurry type-of-thing. We can't let them freeze." I says, "Well, the hydro's still on. You can- you-know, type-of-thing. Live on electricity for a while, type-of-thing until we- until we get this one."

He says, "Well, there you go. there's- right on the floor type-of-thing." I says, you-know, "How much? How much?" type-of-thing, and I- yeah, he says, "I'll take it." I had the pickup truck type- of-thing. I says, "I'm gonna mount it- I'm taking this right now."

He says, "Well that's the last model. it's a floor model." I says, "Does it work?" He says, "Oh yeah," he says, "We had one in yesterday to show something to (inc)."

Burner and everything sits there and I says, and when I finally got it in and working.

... and I said, "Now this basement can flood all the way to the rafters and it won't reach the furnace, so go ahead, do your worst!" Not that- yeah, not that I meant it but, type- of-thing. I says, "You," I says, "At least you can't flood this," because the people brought in their own appliances. Washers and dryers. Well they're now on- you-know, if they're under water, they- they pooch, then- oh they're yours.

From the rafters down, that high. And I says, "there's no way this basement can flood up to here." So I says, "There you go."

That's where the- that's where the outlet goes. Nothing- there's not-- there's no outlet below that but because the appliance is underwater, I said, "The power's still on," type-of-thing, and I says, "That's bzzzz," so I says, "I," you-know I had my- I had my gum-boots up there just in case I needed them, 'cause if I had to go in, I says, "At least I can go through the water and go bang, and hit the breaker and take that off, because you couldn't reach it." So I says, "Okay fine. you're- you're good. And you can't blow this furnace up by- by flooding it because it's now up off the floor, high enough that you can't do that," ...

... when the basement flooded a couple of times- it almost flooded almost once a year, when there was a tenant up there. Yeah, type-of-thing. I show the people how to do it, you-know, but I says, I still have to be- play the maintenance operator and go up at least twice a month just to check and maintain systems, because for some reason, the tenant doesn't want to do it.

Even when I've shown them how to do it, they don't- I have three sump-pumps up there, you-know, two stand-by-'s. I says, "If this craps out, you- you do this, you do this, you do this. You pull this over, and you throw it over there. You take this one and you go, "doo-doo-doo," you plug it in, and it goes "(noise)" and it runs, or it should run."