Ah yes, another one saved from the orphan crushing machine 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Our landlord goes through a local management company. It’s something, I guess.

She really is wonderful.

👏…👏…👏…👏…👏…

I should! Just gotta grab her wedding ring so I can size a ring for her!

Seriously though, we actually joke about that all the time. We were good friends back in high school (way back in the 2000s), but “took the long way around” (long story), then reconnected and finally got married a couple years ago. Worked out great.

My wife was digging around under our bed for something and asked me to help pull her out, so I ran up and cried “oh no step-wife, you’re stuck” and briefly dry humped her (don’t worry I pulled ^her out). She said she bruised her ribs from laughing so hard 😂

My wife and I both decided that we would be cremated instead of buried, and then have our ashes combined and shot into space… or the ocean. Whichever is more practical. That way we can adventure together for the rest of time.

That aside… I was talking with one of my buddies last night. He has a house, and I’ve lamented being stuck renting forever. He tries really hard to see the good in whatever situation may come, and my situation is no exception. He started listing off all of the issues he’s had with his house, even after essentially re-engineering the electrical and water systems, and almost the entire supporting structure. I guess it helped, I mean if my water heater decides to take a shit, I can just call the landlord and they’ll handle it…

My honest opinion? By the city. Yeah i know that introduces another layer of issues, but there needs to be some sort of integrity in place so there’s no conflict of interest coughutahlegislaturecough

As someone who is likely going to be stuck renting for the foreseeable future, I agree. I’ll happily pay my deposit to some sort of escrow that the landlord has zero access to until it’s proven by a neutral third party, with no financial interest in the property, who has seen the property before and after renting.