DY, when we moved in they didn’t have 7 kids. That was a surprise. My next apartment we moved upstairs and our landlords were also holocaust survivors. Our landlady was extremely nervous and paranoid. I wasn’t allowed to go down to the basement after 10pm. Then didn’t say anything to us but I understood that the kids jumping on her head on Shabbos, her only day home to rest (she worked) would make her very nervous. But we had a playroom in the front of the apartment and we taught the kids that when they woke up in the morning they should go into the playroom and that Shabbos afternoon they should also play int he playroom and not make noise in the bedrooms. We were excellent tenants. WE shoveled the steps and the walk. We made sure to put out the garbage and put the cans back and we always made sure that the side door was locked because she was paranoid. However, they did not give enough heat and HE told us to stuff the windows with newspaper. The kids would listen for the radiators to hiss in the evening so they could take a bath. But B”H it forced us to buy our first house.
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