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I moved out of inner city Rochester in 1994 and became a defacto landlord. I rented out two houses in Rochester. At the time, I worked for the corrupt Rochester Housing Authority. They hated landlords and came after me for a trumped up “conflict of interest” which didn’t exist. I had the full force of the govt lawyering up against me as a single divorced mom.

It was a microcosm of what President had been experiencing so I completely sympathize. I left that job and had to change careers to IT.

The RHA bankrupted me by blackballing me from future employment and having me run up legal fees to defend myself as they had one of their tenants in my building and riding to pay me her subsidized rent. They caused me to lose the rentals but we’ve gotten back into the business recently as hubby’s contractor skills are put to good use.

What a horrible experience you went through. A lot of political games in Rochester. When I graduated from high school in 1965, my first job was with Monroe County, Children's Services. I can still remember one of my co-workers telling me that I'd better register as a Democrat if I wanted to keep my job. Back then you had to be 21 to vote, so I could register anyway.

I left Rochester in 1972 with my then husband, and our two sons, and moved to the Utica-Rome area when he took a teaching job. Got divorced in l979. In 1980, I went to work for NY State Corrections, and moved with my kids to Auburn, New York. Transferred from there in December 1983, to Marcy Correctional, not far from Rome. Marcy had previously been a psych center that Mario Cuomo had closed, then renovated into a prison. Retired from my job in 2003.

I haven't been back to the city of Rochester since September of 2011 when my second oldest sister passed away in hospice care there. She had been living at a complex in Gates, off of Buffalo Road. We grew up on Immel Street, which is off Jay Street, near Ames. Our grammar school was on Colvin Street, right across from where my brother's home was. It's been senior citizen apartments for many years now. My two sisters and I went to Madison High School. My brother went to Edison. I'm the last one left in my family. I turned 75 last week.