sticking around for a while
We moved into our current abode about a year ago. We haven’t received any type of notification to renew our lease, but I guess I’m not really complaining. We’d sign another lease in a heartbeat, but I guess it’s not really our responsibility to remind our landlord that we need a new lease, is it? Besides, the idea of looking at apartments or duplexes or whatever is enough to make me go kind of crazy and not in a good way.
Our landlord now is extremely hands off. I haven’t seen him or heard from him since we moved in (except for last month) unless I’ve contacted him first. It’s kind of nice, but I’m thinking a lot of it has to do with the fact that we have awesome neighbors in the downstairs area of the house. And mainly, it’s one guy that’s lived there for a while and just been able to somehow land awesome roommates. From experience, I know that’s not necessarily an easy task!
Right now, the idea of contacting five billion apartments to see if they’d be willing to take two 80 pound dogs does not sound at all enjoyable. By no surprise, when you have gigantic dogs, it’s not at all easy to find a place that will take them. It wasn’t even that easy when I only had Riley. One place even asked to meet him. And if you’ve met Riley, you know it went over extremely well. It was just funny, because the landlord kept asking if he was always that calm. Uh, yeah, dude, pretty much. Unless you have a handful of cheese and then I can’t help you out at all on that one.
Back to our current living situation — I can’t imagine going back to an actual apartment after living in a duplex for a year. It may not sound like that big of a deal, but when you only have to deal with one neighbor as opposed to 10 others, it sure does make a whole lot of difference. And in an extremely good way.
