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Notes from owners who sat through the briefing
Specific buildings, specific plates, and one sitting that went on too long.
These notes come from people who commissioned work and sat with the bound copy. They are not star ratings. Where an owner asked to be named by initial, we kept it that way.
They would not print the vacant fourth floor as “under discussion.” The plate showed empty, which is what the keys said. Awkward at the meeting. Correct.
The arrears column finally matched the envelopes we had actually received, not the spreadsheet a former agent left behind. I still wish the reconstruction had been cheaper. The cousin’s notebook took two extra weeks, and that was on us.
January and February were a single dark band on the lease plate. We had been talking about the baker as if he were the only expiry. Three apartments were in the same fortnight. The sitting was fifty minutes. We used all of them.
Nino stopped the briefing when my brother started arguing with a number that was on the invoice in the file. She opened the file. The argument ended. I would have preferred a softer chair. The pages did the work.
A courtyard on the Saburtalo slope
The owner arrived with three folders and a caretaker who still used family nicknames for the units. Giorgi walked the doors once. Tamar spent the better part of a week matching leases that called the same room by two numbers. The reconstruction produced a roll of thirty-eight lines; four remained marked as informal occupation.
The occupancy report that followed did not look flattering. Two shops had not paid in the winter. The bound copy went to a family sitting in a dining room, not to a bank. They commissioned a quarterly briefing afterward, with a shorter named list — the two courtyards only, not a plot they had not yet bought.
The mild complaint from that job is still the one we hear: the first weeks feel like archaeology. They are. A plate printed from a myth costs less and fails in the room.
If you want the same kind of sitting, write with the street. If you want to see how a plate is ruled, ask to sit with a specimen.