He Put Her Name On The Lease, I Put Mine On The Building (Paperback)

Paperback. Odette Marchetti counted the floors of the Prosper Building on her way up every morning for twelve years. One at the landing. Two at the turn. Three where the fixture hums. Four at the roof hatch, which stayed locked, because she carried the key.On a Tuesday in April the leasing packet came back in the mail. Unit 3C, the corner loft with the good windows. Twelve hundred and forty a month, six hundred under the rate Odette had set herself in January with a tape measure and three comparables. Tenant, twenty-six years old. Emergency contact, C. Marchetti, at a cell number Odette had been dialing for twenty-two years.She countersigned it. In full. Then she initialed the concession line, because an initialed line is a line nobody can call an accident.Cliff Marchetti had spent a decade at cookouts calling the company the tax structure. Article 4 of the operating agreement called it manager-managed, and named exactly one Manager, with sole and exclusive authority to sign leases, bind the company, and certify the books.He signed that page in 2013 under a colored tab, with his phone in his other hand.Six weeks later a lender's counsel opened it in a title company conference room and asked who had authority.A standalone humorous revenge story in the Lies, Cheats, & Dirty Deeds series. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …