HOW TO BE A LANDLORD IN TWO EASY STEPS

STEP 1: Make all kinds of promises to the tenants. This is especially important during the initial move in stage to properly lift their spirits. (i.e. "Oh, we'll be fixing the place up." or, "Don't worry, we won't sell the place")

STEP 2: Proceed to properly screw said tenants. (i.e. Do nothing to the house, especially when the heater breaks in the middle of winter, put up a "For Sale" sign two months after tenant moves in).

Ok, so yeah, this is a rewrite of the post I lost. That last post doesn't do justice to how pissed I am to have lost that one.
Anyway, I was watching the end of "The Life Aquatic" (I put it above "Royal Tannenbaums" in the Anderson lineup), when we noticed shadows in front of the window. I peeked out of the front door two see two young men zip-tying a Prudential sign to the front step railing. I'm not sure if I imagined it or not, but I'm pretty sure they were laughing evil devil-inspired laughs while a big, fat greasy man with a cigar laughed a deep, hearty, nefarious laugh from across the street (ala Boss Hog). This coming two weeks after my lanlord promised that he would do it, because "I know that freaks out the residents".

WHY WOULD YOU RENT A HOUSE IF YOU PLANNED ON SELLING IT RIGHT AWAY!?

Ok, so what does this mean? Well, in a perfect world we would be allowed to live out the rest of our time, then start house-hunting. again. and move. again. But I'm much more realistic (and unlucky) then that. The truth is that somewhere in the 6 month range, we will recieve a nice, lovely eviction notice and have 30 days to not only move our keisters onto the streets, but all of our other belongings as well.
I find myself dreaming little boy dreams in which a Superlawyer (tm) will swoop in, cape flapping, to show us that we have a Legal binding document that gaurantees us residence for one year (here to for reffered to as a "Lease"). Oh, wherefor art thou, Superlawyer?? And I don't know that it matters anyway, since we've since lost a copy of our lease. D'oh!

Well, anyway, that was the gist of the post I lost, thought the other one was much better. This was more of the Cliff note version. I'm sorry it sucked, but no one reads this crummy blog anyway.