2 Pages. Please read the requirement!
Message Strategies: Proposals [LO-1] One of the banes of apartment living is those residents who don’t care about the condition of their shared surroundings. They might leave trash all over the place, dent walls when they move furniture, spill food and beverages in common areas, destroy window screens, and otherwise degrade living conditions for everyone. Landlords obviously aren’t thrilled about this behavior, either, because it raises the costs of cleaning and maintaining the facility.
Your task: Assume that you live in a fairly large apartment build-ing some distance from campus. Write an email proposal that you could send to your landlord, suggesting that fostering a sense of stronger community among residents in your building might help reduce incidents of vandalism and neglect. Propose that the little-used storage area in the basement of the building be converted to a community room, complete with a simple kitchen and a large-screen television. By attending Super Bowl parties and other events there, residents could get to know one another and perhaps forge bonds that would raise the level of shared concern for their living environment. You can’t offer any proof of this in advance, of course, but share your belief that a modest investment in this room could pay off long term in lower repair and maintenance costs. Moreover, it would be an attractive feature to entice new residents.
Requirements!!!
This email proposal will ago to the landlord, who is surely as frustrated as the tenant, so you can assume the reader is interested. The purpose of the message is to inform the reader of areas that need improvement or change and the benefits of making these changes. Naturally, the value of the suggestions made would be best highlighted by what benefits they offer the landlord. These remarks should be stated as positively as possible, emphasizing what needs changing and how these changes will benefit everyone, rather than focusing on fellow tenants’ poor behavior or the landlord’s current inability to provide a more pleasant living space. Following are the areas that I will be looking for:
- Email format
- Opening Paragraph, (Briefly give background of the situation.)
- Body Paragraph, (Give complete details of your recommendation and reasons.)
- Closing Paragraph, (Summarize your key points and emphasize the benefits to the landlord from your recommendation. Also request that the landlord contact you if he/she has additional questions on your proposal.)
- Spelling/grammar
