My golly it has been a wild month of housing around here. Realtors and the usual cast of slumlords coming through to see if they wanted to add this rathole to their fiefdoms, assessors, inspectors, workpeople to do various repairs, etc. A zoo! A fricking circus of phone calls, people showing up, people looking in our windows!! the whole gamut of people behaving poorly.

Seems the fella who has purchased this property (won't call him slumlord yet as his behaviour has yet to be seen) wants to continue on with renting to all of us (two houses and three people on this property). Usually when a place like this gets sold the new owner kicks out the tenants and does the necessary repairs and upgrades (for this place consider a firebomb) so they can increase the rent to make mortgage payments on their investment. I spent the better half of the late 90's moving due to my rental being sold and the new owners deciding to move into the front house or move their kids into the back unit or what have you. Guess I'm a bit jaded and cynical. I know it is more than a bit..........I'm downright curmudgeonly.

My housemate and I spoke with the owner this morning and he bounced some ideas off us and we let him know how we felt. I said if six years of on time rent isn't good enough for a month to month lease instead of a yearly locked in lease then I guess we will be looking for other digs. He said that is enough for him and he'll gladly do a monthly lease with us. Housemate and I are pleased with today's convo with new owner. We'll see when escrow closes I guess.....

I really didn't believe that a new buyer would keep the tenants. Oh me of little faith!