The scariest phrase
I got an email from my landlord. I have been waiting two months for her to get someone to replace my garbage disposal.
You may be saying, "What a crappy landlord!"
Actually, she's not. She's rather pissed off. She has a friend who is a plumber who was supposed to come by and replace it. She called, I called. She called later. She emailed me last week and said, "Has he come by yet?"
"Nope."
"Okay, I'll be over there Monday night to replace it. And BTW, the city is coming by for their annual inspection in two weeks, so let me know if anything else needs to be fixed, and we'll take care of that Monday, too."
Ah, crud.
I was in the midst of trying to finish up my semester with grandiose plans to clean like a madwoman next weekend. (Everything runs on the school schedule in this house, including the cleaning.) Since she's coming over Monday, those plans obviously got bumped, and I really didn't need that to happen right now.
I have to admit that the older child has been extremely helpful, and with the exception of my loft (translate: office), most of the house looks livable.
I can tell I'm not used to being a tenant.
On the up side, she also said she hopes we aren't planning to move because we've been really good tenants and she said she wouldn't raise our rent at the end of the lease. (Which is good, because then I probably would have to move...)
You may be saying, "What a crappy landlord!"
Actually, she's not. She's rather pissed off. She has a friend who is a plumber who was supposed to come by and replace it. She called, I called. She called later. She emailed me last week and said, "Has he come by yet?"
"Nope."
"Okay, I'll be over there Monday night to replace it. And BTW, the city is coming by for their annual inspection in two weeks, so let me know if anything else needs to be fixed, and we'll take care of that Monday, too."
Ah, crud.
I was in the midst of trying to finish up my semester with grandiose plans to clean like a madwoman next weekend. (Everything runs on the school schedule in this house, including the cleaning.) Since she's coming over Monday, those plans obviously got bumped, and I really didn't need that to happen right now.
I have to admit that the older child has been extremely helpful, and with the exception of my loft (translate: office), most of the house looks livable.
I can tell I'm not used to being a tenant.
On the up side, she also said she hopes we aren't planning to move because we've been really good tenants and she said she wouldn't raise our rent at the end of the lease. (Which is good, because then I probably would have to move...)