Pacific Heights
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Pacific Heights
Imagine your new tenants to be your worst nightmare! In the Pacific Heights movie, it cannot even go farther. What endure Drake and his girlfriend Patty as the landlords of their new home from Carter Hayes, a guy who just parasite and complicated their life, is like hell ! They have been provocated by him, and he does not even had pay the first month yet. By doing this movie, John Schlesing, the producer, does not want to discourage people from renting rooms from their apartment, he just warned landlords about how bad things can happen to them if they give no attention to their rights and responsibilities. Also, one of his main point of view is to stay calm when confront to those situations, because its the only way you can pass trough it
First, landlords of any kind of house should understand what covered them from eventual possibilities of conflict among their tenants. Carter Hayes probably know more about it than his landlords before he gets in this apartment, and that was a big advantage for him. Something we first learn is that tenant got rights the second they entered the apartment. The police told them when Drake tries to cut off the heat and the power at night so they stop making noise. Landlords should also have looked up for references of Carter before letting him in. An other situation is when the other tenants broke the contract of one year they had just signed and they do not even argument about it, they let them leave. Those situations could have been rectified with a bit of knowledge in this field, and it was their responsibility to check about their rights before getting in that situation.
Second, when we cannot stop those situations, the first thing to do is to stay calm. For Drake Goodman, his anger management problem did not help him a lot. He gets him