ABOUT THE AUTHORS Besides being a landlord, Bob Monahan is a retired special education teacher and administrator. The last dozen years of his teaching with high school students included a class called "Home Repair" in which he taught basic electrical, plumbing, room painting, floor tiling and sheetrock repair. His experience with special needs students allowed him to work with social agencies that were looking to place disabled adults into apartments. Linda Monahan has been a hands-on landlord, doing construction, legal paperwork and social agency work - all while being kind yet firm. She is a very organized, highly adventurous who has traveled the country and the world, including Australia and New Zealand for a month-long adventure. She has jumped out of planes, gone spelunking, flown a glider plane, zip lined in Mexico and much more. She has done all of this while being a landlord because being a landlord provided the extra income to lead an adventurous lifestyle. Her motto is: Work hard but play harder.