Helena Happy twenty twelve. It's so good to see you here on Facebook.
You look great. How are you beautiful? I'm doing well. That is
a pick of me and my dog Misty, who died in the spring.
The kids are all grown and out of the house with families of their own.
I retired back to Scottsdale last May, and then I took a cruise
in the fall. The food was so so and the sites were okay.
There were a lot of beggars and poverty there. I went with Jackie.
Do you remember Jackie? Her husband passed in two thousand and nine, around
the time my robber left us. How is your Paul? Is he still
in practice? I bet he is. He always was a workaholic. I
think I'm going to get a new puppy pal over the summer. Jackie found
us a quilting cruise, so we're going to do that soon, and then
I'll get a puppy to replace Misty. I don't think we're going to go
to Mexico this time. Dear Mark CW contacted my office this morning to inform
me that you're still in contact with Ellen Mark. This is not what we
talked about. I appreciate your relationship with her and the fun you've had with
these letters, but it's time to put this whole thing to bed. Please
send me the letters Ellen sent you, and any copies of the letters that
you've sent her if you still have them. I still need you to send
me the letters that were not in the original package. You've had your fun,
but this needs to stop. CW has been reasonable and easy to work
with so far. Can we please keep it that way. I left all
this on your answering machine, but I thought it was important to put it
in writing too. Please don't make me look bad, Mark. I'll see
you at the series party. Let this also be a reminder to bring your
deviled eggs and some of those candies if you have any despair. Also note
in writing that I told you that as would lose yours Allen, I mean
Bonnie, yours, Bonnie, Dear Bonnie. Here is the remainder of correspondence
between me and the girls. As you requested. You're right, I should
have ended all communication. I just felt bad not responding to her. You'll
see in my final letter I've requested she stop writing me. I've also included
a handful of letters i'd filed away and forgotten about. Please keep me informed
as things progress. Mark Heidno, Kasney didn't know when the baby don't stand
there over my two boy to my stro June twenty fifth, nineteen eighty seven.
Dear Mark, here's a cashier's check for my first month's rent and a
cashier's check for the security deposit. I don't know why they're called cashier's checks.
I had to get them from the bank. It doesn't make a lot
of sense, if you ask me. I also don't think it makes much
sense that I'm supposed to pay you for rent before I move in. When
you go to a restaurant, you don't pay for your meal before you eat
it. You pay for your meal after you eat it. So I think
I should pay you for July's rent after July is done. My father says
that's not how it works, and that I shouldn't complain because it's not my
money anyways. So I'm just letting you know that if it was my money,
I would be complaining, but since it's not, I won't. Sincerely,
Karen, I'm your new tenant. Bobby. Attached is Ellen's rental application,
which she handed to me after she had already moved in, and wonder
whether, if given a choice, I'd actually rent to her. Mark personal
information, social security number, driver's license number. I don't like to drive
because I'm not very good at it. Telephone born June nineteen four, thirteen
am in Tucson, Arizona. I don't smoke and I have no pets.
Addresses June nineteen eighty five to present, Berkeley, California, nine four seven
zero four May nineteen eighty four to June nineteen eighty five, Budapest, Hungary.
Ava is the owner prior to nineteen eighty four my parents' house income.
My parents give me one thousand, two hundred dollars a month each month.
I had a summer job last year see below, and I plan to work
there again this year. I also received three hundred and fifty dollars a month
each month from a family trust fund. I can give you copies of my
bank statements if the back will give them to me. What I'm looking for?
Ideally, I would like to find a landlord who is either a Gemini
like myself or a Sagittarius. Sagittarius is one hundred and eighty degrees from Gemini,
so we would get along very well. I would consider renting an apartment
from a tourus or a cancer, but obviously they would not be my first
choices. I would not rent from a Scorpio. The owner of the building
where I am living now is a Virgo and I'm a Gemini. Our signs
are at a ninety degree angle, so we don't get along. I can't
rent an apartment from a Virgo or Pisces. Their signs are at right angles
to mine, so their son is in a sign which is square to mine.
Landlord's born very close to ninety one days apart, will have their son
square the other, which would be a real problem for me. Moon's square
sun is also difficult, but I'm willing to risk that for a really great
little place. For example, a Leo would irritate me at times, but
with patients we could deal with each other. References did ice cream company my
manager was. I had a summer job there last year. They didn't fire
me, they just didn't need me anymore. I think they'll need me again
this year, though. Ava I lived at Missus's house for the summer two
years ago. Ask for Operator seventeen in Budapest. Have her ring. Ava.
Budapest is in Hungary, but Ava speaks English, so you don't have
to worry about that. Madam. Madam's phone number is unlisted, but I
can get a message to her and she can call you back. Madam is
my astrologer. She will have to do a chart on my new landlord before
I can sign a lease. Pickles, I had a job there for a
short while, but I don't think you need to know about that. If
you do, let me know, and I'll let them know, and then
I'll let you know whatever they let me know. October second, nineteen eighty
seven, Dear Karen and Ellam, I received your rent check for the month
of October, which is two hundred and thirty one dollars short. I cannot
accept any of the deductions you include it. I'm not sure how one loss
is a porch light, but replacing a lost porch light is not a landlord's
responsibility. Had the light broken through normal wear and tear, it could be
considered the responsibility of the landlord to replace. However, your admittance that you
lost it makes it wholly your responsibility to replace. Additionally, it is not
the responsibility of a landlord to pay for a tenants binoculars. I appreciate your
willingness to look out for trouble. However, I cannot condone nor pay for
the spying on of a tenants neighbors, regardless of how fishy they seem.
I will be at her cottage on Wednesday to fix the Caldwell sprinkler heads,
which were all mysteriously broken late last Friday night. Please have a check prepared
for the remaining two hundred and thirty one dollars of your October rent. Sincerely,
Mark, October fifth, nineteen eighty seven. Dear Mark, when I
said we lost the porch light, I meant that we think it got stolen.
Does that make it your responsibility to replace it? We needed the la
so we could see who stole the porch light. I think that means you're
supposed to pay for those too. We're sorry we didn't see you when you
were here. We didn't hear the doorbell ring. Yours, Karen, October
seventh, nineteen eighty seven. Dear Karen. In my many years of experience
as a landlord, I cannot think of a single reason a landlord would be
responsible for buying their tenants binoculars have your porch light actually been stolen, binoculars
would offer no help considering the crime had already been committed. If you truly
believe your porch light was stolen, Ah, I would be happy to fill
out a police report for you to submit to the Oakland PD. Once that
report has been submitted, I would be willing to rebate you the cost of
the porch light already purchased without my prior authorization. Sincerely, Mark, October
eleventh, nineteen eighty seven. Dear Mark, I don't think we need to
do a police report. Here are two checks for the rest of the rent.
One check for me for one hundred and six dollars, one check from
Ellen for one hundred and twenty seven dollars. Ellen is paying more because she
wasn't home when the porch light got lost. Yours, Karen, this is
unbelievable. Where did you even get this? It's a long story, but
I want to get to work on this right away. We need the entire
team out here like yesterday on it. Hey, and until I say so,
no one knows about this. Okay, Well here's what I found.
So I was Facebook talking Karen and you know she has like nothing up there
she's got like fifty friends or something, and then like, imagine that she's
just well considering like the average Facebook user has like three hundred. That makes
sense, and so of course I'm looking for a Rob. There's like no
Robs in there. Yeah, I don't think there is a Robert amongst her
friends. So I was like, okay, so maybe they're divorced. They're
not talking. But then there's a bunch of people name So I started looking,
and there's this one guy who just seems really really like he should be
Rob. He just has the look of a Rob, and he's into like
classic cars and shit, and so I'm like, it's got to be him.
So I start looking at him and his friends and his family, and
wait, what's his name? I love it. So it's basically the equivalent
of being named like Rob Robertson. So I looked at it. I looked
at it. So I looked at his profile, and I looked at his
family and whatever, and I was like, I just have a feeling about
this. So I went I went to ancestry and lo and behold, they
are married. They were married. They were okay, okay, So then
I started doing a little more digging, and I'm looking at like photos of
him, and it seems like he's got these kids. So I was like,
okay, are these her kids? You know? Well, first of
all, so they were born in the like fifties. Okay, so this
is like the whole time you're talking to me, I'm trying to absorb all
this. But all I'm thinking is if he's sixty and she also is,
which I somehow never even picked up on. Maybe it's not in her profile,
Like that doesn't add up to them teenagers in the eighties. No,
they would have been like twenties, early thirties. My mouth is failing me.
I don't have my murder board in front of me. But like,
according to the birth records that I found, they would have had one child
already, at least one. Was it a girl? Think? Yes it
was a girl? Could yes it was? Could it be Ellen? Very
well? Could be because she would have been like seven or eight, which
explains like the strange child like shees well no, I no, but wait,
you said you found Ellen or you thought you did. Well, yeah,
that's a different Let's we'll get to that. Okay, this is my
first video using this phone. So I'm not really sure if I'm doing this
right. But this is a mouse I caught with a humane mouse trap,
and I wanted everyone to see it because I think it's the right thing to
do if you have my sore a mouse in your house. Now, I'm
just gonna I don't know if I should put my finger in there. I'm
just gonna pull this lever and oh, oh, there he goes. There
goes the mouse, and he's fine. The mouse is fine. He didn't
have to die, and now he's free. Next time. On the Karen
and Ellen Letters, Helena reconnects with an old friend. Josh finds something alarming,
Ellen still wants free firewood, Ellen leaves something behind, and Mark encounters
an ant infestation.