“It sounds like Ms Ng thinks “commercial rental” is anything she says it is-to hell with safety regs-and is it just me, or does “Fruitvale” sound sort of like a place for loons?”
Get serious! The Fruitvale District of Oakland used to be a very nice place to live. My aunt and uncle lived there right after the end of WWII (My aunt was a civilian truck driver for the Oakland Army Depot during the war). Sadly, all of East Oakland is now a minority sewer. You name it, if it isn’t white, chances are it lives there.
And BTW, i’ve been to a few places in Texas that I could make similar comments about. The last time I was through Paris, TX it looked like a ghost town. Definitely not much in Paris that looks like Paris. Also, used to work for a company that had a plant in Graham, TX (”Gateway to the Possum Kingdom Reservoir”)
I imagine procedures vary from city to city. I rented offices in 3 different locations in Marin County, California. In one city, I don’t recall any fire inspections, but I wasn’t there full time, so perhaps they came when another partner was there. In the second city, the fire department would inspect yearly (one was a 400 sq ft unit; the other 2000 sq ft). We had a business permit, but no specific fire permit. The fire department would check that there were lighted exit signs over exterior doors, the appropriate # of fire extinguishers were mounted and had a valid date. They had a whole checklist they went through. They got me once on an expired fire extinguisher that I had to go get recharged (I was happy for the reminder),and they came back to check that it had been done. They also updated owner/manager information so in case of a fire or other emergency,they’d know who to contact.
Tranquila, Senor-I was not insulting anyone-I’m sure Fruitvale was once a very nice place-just like so many other once-nice places with names that have become a source of humor/irony over time-there is a sort of burb of Corpus Christi called Flower Bluff-when I was a teen and wondered why it looked like anything but a flowered bluff, my mom told me that in years past it had been a much nicer place-with flowers...
The rural area I live in is called Pipe Creek-since it has been known as the meth capital of West Central Texas for at least the last 20 years, both the irony and the humor of the name is not lost on anyone here-I’m not offended-it is what it is...