History Literature / LosingJoesPlace

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* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Rootbeer Racinette shows up to crash at the apartment and borrow Jason's car whenever he likes, to the slight dismay of the kids (although to be fair, Joe, the actual owner of the place, is ok with this). He makes up for this by getting them emergency rent money when they need it and serving as the prime entertainment after Joe opens up a Chocolate Memory restaurant.

* KarmicJackpot: Jason resents how Jessica uses him to do her homework and didn't even thank him. Also, she punched him in the face when he went to ask her how a project went. She eventually repays the favor, however, by being his NumberTwo at the Chocolate Memory restaurant and helping him manage it as a waitress. Even Jason is surprised that she is capable of working hard. It turns out Jessica isn't just TheDitz but [[spoiler:she kept asking Jason because she liked him. In the end, she says she chooses him over his best friends. Despite themselves, Don and Ferguson give Jason their blessing to date her. They start a LongDistanceRelationship]].

** Jason is surprised at himself when he realizes he is a good cook.
** Jessica may be failing Home Economics, but she is an amazing waitress.

* CrankyLandlord: Plotnick the landlord is a haughty {{Jerkass}} who is always insulting his tenants and making them pay for damage that is his fault.

Jason, Don and Ferguson are spending their first summer in the city, with Jason's brother Joe going out of town for the summer and letting them use his coveted downtown apartment. Joe ends up leaving early, before he can tell them everything that they need to know, leaving the boys scrambling to hold down jobs, appease the tight-fisted landlord, and deal with Joe's friend Rootbeer and the antics he keeps getting them into, all the while trying to keep from losing the apartment (as the title suggests, they don't succeed).

* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler:The kids help Plotnick's restaurant become a success and he responds by still raising the rent to more than Joe can afford to pay to take advantage of how much new business is coming into the area]].

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Joe yells at Jason that his Chocolate Memory idea inspired Plotnick to upgrade so he shouldn't have bothered. Jason silently seethes that the summer would have gone easier if Jason had bothered to check on them with phone calls or given them full instructions on managing his apartment.

* RealityEnsues:

* TheGhost: Hamish, Plotnick's AlwaysSomeoneBetter rival landlord and restaurant owner.

* KarmicJackpot: Jason resents how Jessica uses him to do her homework and didn't even thank him. Also, she punched him in the face when he went to ask her how a project went. She eventually repays the favor, however, by being his NumberTwo at the Chocolate Memory restaurant and helping him manage it as a waitress. Even Jason is surprised that she is capable of working hard. It turns out Jessica isn't just TheDitz but [[spoiler:she kept asking Jason because she liked him. In the end, she says she chooses him over his best friends. Despite themselves, Don and Ferguson give Jason their blessing to hate her. They start a LongDistanceRelationship]].

* AnAesop: The narrator happens to help a hot girl with her college homework. Specifically, about food costs. Then he does the math after she leaves, and finds that it's actually[[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/opinion/sunday/is-junk-food-really-cheaper.html cheaper and healthier]] to cook one's food than to eat out all the time.
* AntiNepotism: Don gets the three jobs at his uncles factory but when Ferguson invents a cost-cutting production method which inadvertently eliminates their jobs, Don's uncle doesn't hesitate to fire him along with Jason, saying nepotism means less than real genius.

* MadeOfIron: Rootbeer Racinette. The guy lets himself get whacked with a 2x4 for bets and shows no adverse signs.

* ObliviousToLove: Jason Cardone, doesn't notice Jessica's affections towards him until literally the very end.
* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler:The kids serve Plotnick's customers a type of chocolate cake made from a more successful chains recipe. Once this makes Plotnick a hit, the rightful owners of that recipe sue him for using it without permission]].
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Rootbeer Racinette shows up to crash at the apartment and borrow Jason's car whenever he likes, to the slight dismay of the kids (although to be fair, Joe, the actual owner of the place, is ok with this).

* AntiNepotism: Don gets the there jobs at his uncles factory but when Ferguson invents a cost-cutting production method which inadvertently eliminates their jobs, Don's uncle doesn't' hesitate to fire him along with Jason, saying nepotism means less than real genius.
* TheGhost: Hamish, Plotnick AlwaysSomeoneBetter rival landlord and restaurant owner.

* MadeOfIron: Rooier Racinette. The guy lets himself get whacked with a 2x4 for bets and shows no adverse signs.
* NeverMyFault: The final chapter has Joe blaming the trio for everything as Jason silently fumes about how Joe had been too stupid and selfish to wait around to give them detailed instructions or a phone call which could have prevented a lot of what went wrong.
* ObliviousToLove: Jason Cardone, from ''Losing Joe's Place'', doesn't notice Jessica's affections towards him until literally the very end.

Jason, Don and Joe are spending their first summer in the city, with Jason's brother Joe login out of town and letting them use his coveted downtown apartment. Joe ends up leaving early, before he can tell them everything that they need to know, leaving the boys scrambling to hold down jobs, appease the tight-fisted landlord, and deal with Joe's friend Rootbeer and the antics he keeps getting them into, all the while trying to keep from losing the apartment (as the title suggests, they don't succeed).

* NeverMyFault: The final chapter has Joe blaming the trio for everything as Jason silently fumes about how he'd been too stupid and selfish to wait around to give them detailed instructions or a phone call which could have prevented a lot of what went wrong.