Sunday, September 05, 2004

Been watchin H&G lately

Does anyone else want a house as badly as I do? Nope. Damn, I want a house. I mean, we could be paying a monthly payment equaling our rent now, once we put a deposit down! How can you beat that?

Okay, I know it's not all roses, but since we're not even close to being able to think about buying a house, let me dream, yeah?

Here's one thing that pisses me off majorely: apartment people and pets. Yeah, I know you own it. Yeah, I know it's something that will be yours for a long time and mine only to rent for awhile, but face it: I'm living there. It's my home. So why make all these inane pet rules? Because you want to be on the safe side, really on the safe side, so far on the safe side you can just barely see normalcy? No, you can't even see it? Well let me tell you, normalcy is where all your renters live, and that just ain't a good enough reason to put these kinds of controls on people.

You know what it says about you? It says you don't give a shit about your renters.

I had lots more to say (cuss) about this but I find myself getting worked up again pointlessly and I'd rather just not.

So let's focus on the good:

One day, I will own my own house, and when I feel like getting a pet, when the whole family discusses it and decides we truly want it and are ready for the commitment and can afford it, well sonofabitch we are going to get it. It won't matter a smidge what size it is, or what breed, or if it's what you call an 'exotic' (a term which, by the way, you have pulled out of your ass. Not a nice place to take things from). And the words 'pet deposit' will only come into play when we need to put a deposit down on an animal before we take it in. And 'pet rent'? Get the fuck out.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey, how do you know you aren't close to being able to buy a house?

You might want to do some research there are lots of nothing down incentives now just to get the houses sold and if you have been making your rent consistently you might find first time buyer incentives that woud work...


just thoughts,

Mindy

Karen said...

Zero down? I didn't even know that was possible. I have absolutely no expereience with this type of thing...don't even know what most of the terms mean. Hm, maybe I should do some more research. Any tips on good websites to learn more about this stuff?