One of benefits for me of sending out a tenant newsletter is that I can get rid of stuff left by former tenants that I would otherwise have to have hauled away. Now here is something you don’t see everyday in Berkeley – a bear-proof food locker, and a brand-new one too.  A former tenant left it in her bicycle shed. It is well made and expensive. The tags and labels are on still on it. The price tag on the handle says that it sold for $329.  Now I am sure that there is someone in Berkeley who needs a bear-proof food locker, but I don’t know who that someone might be. If you need or just want a bear-proof food locker, let me know. I only have one. To be honest, I cannot guarantee that this food locker really is bear-proof. I have not tested it. If you would like to test it, be my guest, but its BYOB (Bring Your Own Bear.) I cannot supply a test bear.

I can’t figure out why the tenant who left this bear-proof food locker bought it in the first place. She didn’t have a car and never went camping. I think this food locker may be like the proverbial fruitcake that people just keep passing along to somebody else. Perhaps somebody gave this bear-proof food locker to my tenant as a gift. Since she had no use for it, she gave it to me, and now I am trying to give it to somebody else. It’s one of those things that nobody has any use for but that is too expensive to just throw away.