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House hunt update
Friends and family know that we are currently looking for a new place to live. Here’s the latest news on that.
We decided against all of the six places we looked at several weekends ago. Jeremy had found a really promising post on Craigslist and we pursued that place for a few weeks. We toured it, we liked it; we met the neighbors, we liked them. We played phone tag with the landlord for a long time, and it soon became abundantly clear that she really wasn’t interested in housing us (i.e., people who wanted things like broken screen doors and vomity old carpet fixed) or our dog.
Of course, it was all her right, but it made me angry, especially the unwarranted dog hate. In fact, she suggested to us that non pet-owning tenants would have had all the problems with the place fixed no question, but that people with a (mature, house-trained) dog don’t deserve a new carpet. (From our discussion with the neighbors, also tenanted by this woman, we learned that people with small children don’t deserve a new carpet either.)
Well, Jeremy found another place (Craigslist having a basically endless supply of duplexes and small houses for rent in the area) and we looked at it on Saturday.
It was lovely. Two bedrooms instead of three (the other place had three) and about 50 bucks more a month, but it’s in a slightly nicer neighborhood and had several things to recommend it—a huge kitchen, built-in shelves in the living room, and tons of storage space, among other things. We told the landlady, who was showing us around, that we were interested and asked for an application.
This is the point when the previously normal-seeming landlady turned from Dr. Jekyll into Mrs. Hyde. (Hyde’s the bad one, non-readers.)
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