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Letters to the Summer TenantsRenting to the wrong people.

Posted Monday, July 21, 2003, at 12:08 PM ET

As the summer heat approaches its hellish apogee, thousands will flee their jobs for vacation spots near the ocean. Six years ago, Jodie T. Allen's "self-martyred landlord" wrote to the destructive summer tenants who had just left her house: "I did find a minute to relax in a rocker on the porch this morning, to watch the seabirds and admire what's left of the garden."

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