fraud raze he sat in his kitchen and spoke. "you've been excellent tenants for seventeen years now. you take care of the house. you don't cause any trouble. remember when i talked about raising the rent again and you said you couldn't afford it? i think i have a solution. the rent will stay the same. and every month, you can give me an extra two hundred and fifty dollars in cash, so i won't have to claim it on my taxes. you see what the housing market is doing. the_cost_of_living keeps rising. that's a good deal. next month, you could even give me two fifty times six. get it out of the way. here's what we'll do. i'll draw up a lease agreement for one year. i'll write down two thousand. i'll put a star next to that number. i'm not going to say what it means, but it'll be an acknowledgment of what we've agreed to." on every wall behind and around him were crosses. ceramic and gold. all of them bare. 240706 what's it to you? who go blather from