rental

we had our hopes sorta crushed yesterday: barber and his partner saw us come in last weekend, and thought, "THEY should be the ones to rent our place!"

barber and partner are suddenly moving away from our town, and wanted someone they could rely on to rent their house. we went to see the place AND LOVED IT, sent our email to them the next day with a couple of demands (reasonable, like paint the walls a plain off-white, instead of their avocado and tangerine scheme).

and then spent the next two days making serious plans.

after two days of no response from them, i sent a followup "hope you got our we-want-it email", to which they responded that they were 1. going through a rental agency and 2. want to retain the option to sell the place a year from now.

maybe the biggest disappointment is that we aren't getting away from our current asshole property manager anytime soon.