Landlord Tripled My Rent? I Built a Mall Opposite

Rent day. My landlord, Myron Whitney, showed up at the door with a crew of men, dead set on tripling my rent. "Mr. Perez, this supermarket only does so well because it sits on my family's lucky ground. A young man ought to know a little gratitude!" "And another thing. My son here's got no degree, but he's a sharp one. Why don't you just hand him some VP title, let him play at it?" I answered him, calm and unhurried: