3 more days left at my internship and back to school on monday! (yay!)

I've been helping out my dad sending emails, dealing with the city for the past week too. Here's the situation: my dad is a landlord for a living. and there's this perpetually angry lady living in one of his apartments. She's constantly calls on inspectors for the smallest things and contests the 5$ rent increase every year with 10k worth of repairs.

So on apartment in the building was undergoing renovations and there were about 3 days left to completition when she called on the city saying the renovations were done without permit. Inspectors came, stopped the construction and my dad went to the city hall to get the permit. Next day, she calls on the syndicate saying the workers are illegal and they send their own inspectors that give the contractor a huge fine and stop the construction until my dad hires an architect and gets an approved syndicated construction company to do the job. All that for a refinishing of floors, changing the kitchen cabinets and re-painting.

He's totally in the wrong not getting permits and hiring contrators that don't pay benefits to their employees and now he's gonna pay the price. Personally, I'm not sure how I see his business practices. Usually, all the people involved are happy (including the tenants, he's not a crummy landlord) but everything's not by the book either. He claims if he followed all rules, he won't really be able to make ends meet (some buildings he makes about 3k profit a year), but I believe it's important to pay workers a living wage. And renovations should be done according to new ecological standards and stuff. Anyway, kinda torn on the issue.