The Joys of Renting

Maybe the quircks that come with renting are normal, but if you have not rented in a while it may be annoying!
For those who do not know we are renting a house with the basement as a seperate unit. So we only have to share with one family. However, my complaints are huge!
I hate out landlord, he is quite a jerk. He does not care what happens in this house as long as we pay the rent on time. Getting him to fix things is a joke and he thinks he still has rights to come into the house when he wants. Yea it is lovely.
Now the family that lives below us.
First, they are slobs. By their back door is a pile of garbage sacks (not so sure what is in them), kids shoes, tool box, fishing poles, and on occasion empty beer bottles left on the porch.
Second, we rented somewhere that allows pets and has a little yard. We agreed to take care of the yard in exchange for $50 off the rent. It is a small yard so I thought piece of cake. Well the neighbors below us have a huge dog, not cute little one like Bogie, they have a huge dog. Huge dogs mean huge poop and we clean it. No they do not clean up after their own dog we get to.
Third, when we take care of the yard we usually have to pick up all of the kid toys off the yard.

all of this is nothing compared to my last complaint. They smoke. At first they would smoke outside, but right by the windows. If the window was opened it would come inside, but the smell would only last for a little while. Well they are from Arizona and it is getting a little chilly in the mornings and evenings so they have began to smoke in the house. Matt has commented that at times things from the house smell like smoke. One day I came home and our house smelled so bad. It smelt as if we had smoked in there. So I bought two frebreeze noticeables. I am not sure if any of you have used them, but they are pretty strong and you can always smell them because the smell changes. In fact we have one in our house in Idaho Falls and it is almost overpowering when you walk in.
Well I have two up and this house is much smaller than our house in Idaho Falls. Well I can't smell the smoke as bad, but I also cannot smell the Febreeze. It is as if the Febreeze is working overtime to keep the house smelling good!

However, we have began to look at houses to buy. Ours still has not sold, but we are looking non the less!