Do you rent or own
your home?
If you own your
home, you have the wonderful advantages of being able to put a nail in a wall
to hang a new piece of artwork, or you can paint the walls any crazy colour you
like, you can buy that special piece of furniture for ‘that’ corner and more.
When you rent, you
either ask permission of the landlord or you go with out.
You also have your
world turned slightly upside down when the owners decide to sell.
As you know, our
home (albeit our rented home) has just been put on the market and suddenly
there’s a heavy cloud over our immediate future.
Our home is usually
neat and tidy. There’s only 3 of us, G’s at work and MissM’s at school so
there’s not that much time at home to make it untidy. Plus I’m a nutter for
putting things back where they go, leaving a room neat and tidy for the next
person etc.
However neat and
tidy it is for us, when total strangers are coming in to inspect the house, I
feel they are also judging us, how we live and our things so I’m running around
like a lunatic, fluffing cushions, removing papers from the kitchen bench, even
hiding the fruit bowl with bananas that are ready to be made into banana cake
before the inspection time.
They are now running
28 minutes late …………
I guess if it was
our house we were selling it would be frustrating too but for different
reasons.
Yes, a lease is a
lease and the owners are free to do what they wish however, we have a long term
lease, so it will be very interesting to see what transpires.
For now, do I
sabotage any hope they have of selling but making the place a complete and
utter mess, play really obnoxious music and change the atmosphere? Or do I play
lovely classical music or soft jazz, burn lovely smelling candles and make sure
the Ikebana is fresh?
Keep you posted on
how the inspection goes, meanwhile I’ve candles to light, music to play and
cushions to fluff,
With friendship
x
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