I watched them. The guys pouring tar on our roof instead of replacing the roof, as the landlord who owns this building WILL NOT invest a dime more than barely necessary. So the leaks in the roof just travel. The landlord sends a team of illegals over now and then to pour tar where the leak is coming through, but will never replace the roof.

One of those illegals, or a guy who hires illegals, expressed his side of the rage at my ladlord, probly being cheated out of his pay, the last day that team was out here pouring tar on the roof.

I watched him.

He pulled the tar thing over to the edge and carefully poured it so it dripped down onto the terraced walkway and courtyard below.

If you look now you can see places all over the edge of the roof where there is roofing tar spilled over and dripped. Now it's hardened and blends in with the chipped paint of the rest of the decor. He poured it out the last day they were there after about a week of tarring and re-tarring.

My daughter's room still smells like mold, it's in the ceiling of course.

Only way out for a person is to make more money. There is no structure out there protecting you, no one will go to bat for you against the corporate structure. Everything is owned by absent "stockholders" and the rest of us are just getting squeezed.

Or enjoy small victories, like that mexican guy pouring tar out on our building after probly finding out his crew was not going to be paid what they agreed to earlier, or whatever his gripe was. Only problem is there's no landlord living with the results of the crew's political stance, only me, living with hardened tar dripped all around my home.

Have to keep reminding myself, it could be a lot worse, and then keep those fingers on the keyboard...