Creative expression outside of the metalcasting industry.Tony Midea Headline text For a town in Greece see Midea, Greece. Midea (美的電器 Shenzhen Stock Exchange Code 000786; Shanghai Stock Exchange Code 000527) is a Chinese electronics manufacturer located in Shunde, Guangdong. , who works as a product development manager by day for Foseco Metallurgical met·al·lur·gy n. 1. The science that deals with procedures used in extracting metals from their ores, purifying and alloying metals, and creating useful objects from metals. 2. Inc., Cleveland, needed a form of therapy to cope with the headaches brought on by his moonlight An open source version of Microsoft's Silverlight from the Mono project. Moonlight provides a runtime engine that allows Silverlight applications to run on Linux and also provides a Linux software development kit (SDK) for building Silverlight applications. business as a landlord. He started fazing himself out as a landlord in 1995, but it took until 2001 before he reached the point where he could laugh about his troubling experiences. Over the years, he has authored many technical papers related to the metalcasting industry so he thought, as therapy, he would try his hand at writing a book. He thought the book could serve a dual purpose--provide some therapy for him and serve as a public service message of sorts for those considering landlording as a way to earn quick and easy cash. With the help of his wife Sandra sandra (sänˑ·dr  ),adj (who has been a metallurgist for 17 years), A Fool's fool's a look-alike; commonly mistaken for. fool's mushroom amanitaverna. fool's parsley aethusacynapium. fool's watercress siumangustifolium. Guide to Landlording was published in 2004. "I wanted to see if I could actually write in a fashion other than technical," said Midea. "I kicked around the idea for three or four years and spent a year or so working on the outline." The book gives the perspective of landlording from self-proclaimed "common Joes" and includes information many other books leave out--mainly about the pitfalls of renting out a house. "There were a couple of reasons we decided to write it," he said. "First, I had these stories rattling around my head for all of these years, and I finally got to a point where I could laugh about it. To put the 'horror stories' on paper was therapeutic for me. And secondly, there are so many books out there telling you how easy this business is. But nobody tells you the other side of it. We wanted to write something that would make people stop and reconsider re·con·sid·er v. re·con·sid·ered, re·con·sid·er·ing, re·con·sid·ers v.tr. 1. To consider again, especially with intent to alter or modify a previous decision. 2. becoming a landlord before blindly proceeding." The book includes a chapter devoted to Midea's "best" tenants. Stories of "The Liars," "The Losers," "The Druggies," "The Derelict derelict n. something or someone who is abandoned, such as a ship left to drift at sea or a homeless person ignored by family and society. (See: abandon, dereliction) DERELICT, common law. " and "The Almost Winners," bring the book to its conclusion that landlording is not as easy as many get-rich-quick plans make it out to be. |
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