A competing rental property in town sent out a handy postcard. Or rather, they sent it to Resident, who apparently lives in this apartment, too. “Need a change of scenery?” the postcard asks. Then it offers the competing company’s rental properties as alternatives to this one, and it finishes up with this promise:

This postcard is worth a great deal bring it with you for $200 off your first months rent for qualified applicants, some restrictions apply.

Yes, I copied that down faithfully. And no, this does not inspire me with confidence that this other management company is any more intelligent than my current one is. My current property manager prefers fonts and colors to clarity and argument, and it prefers to make new rules rather than work with individual residents to correct inappropriate behavior. But so far my current property manager hasn’t butchered the English language to quite this extent.