More rental fun. Ugh.

Our landlords have lost their ever-loving minds. They came over for a showing, except the people were early, so I showed them around and answered questions—something I totally didn’t have to do, but I wanted to make everything sound great and get this place rented. Fine, right?

Well, we get done with the tour and the landlords are in the driveway, saying they’ve been waiting there. Whatever. They were maybe there for five minutes. They gave me a half stink-eye for not waiting for them. Whatever, don’t care, my part is done. They said they’d be back in to talk to me about the disposal. WHY? It’s broken? Ugh. (We had called to let them know it was broken and that Tom had attempted to fix it to no avail.) So they come in and check the disposal and it actually just needed to be reset, which Tom had looked for but didn’t find so thought maybe it didn’t have one. So that was fixed, they made a joke about “That will be $75!” and all was good.

Then they brought up the A/C. We said this morning when it was cool in the house, the air coming out of the vent was room temperature, or 74. The wife couldn’t wrap her head around it, because 74 was cooler than the current air temp [because the unit was off]. I said I’d turned the air off because it didn’t do anything to run and run and run. She said, “But if you turn it on the 74 will feel cool.” Yes, maybe for a minute. I told her we had it on all day recently and it was still 82 in the house, which implies it’s not working. I said maybe it just needs a refresher of freon every year since it’s an older unit. She says “But we just had someone out.” Yes, LAST YEAR. Yes, I know you don’t want to spend any money, but seriously. They ended up saying they will send someone. *And all this was AFTER we already called them about it TWO WEEKS AGO, and they gave us a song and dance that the A/C company said [something to the effect of] “Let’s wait until it gets warmer to check it out.” HUH? :??: Normally you’d be glad to check it out before everyone and their brother is calling during the first heat wave of the summer. ANYWAY.

Then.

THEN.

Then they wanted to give us some “feedback” on the house showings. Um, why? We don’t care. So basically, they want us to clean out the house. 🙄 :)) :crazy: Yeah, they said people are saying they can’t really see what the house looks like with all our stuff. Yes, that would be because WE’RE STILL LIVING HERE. They said they know we just had the garage sale, etc., but if we could make it look better… Um, just what the hell are we supposed to do? I said “If we move that [pointing at some random item], it just has to go somewhere else, which doesn’t really help.” We said we tried to get rid of some stuff but the garage sale was a bust. And then? They suggested an estate sale. Seriously. I felt my blood pressure rising and I was become less and less calm…ready to fight almost. I’m sorry, but there’s just not much we can do. And other than not enjoying people traipsing through our house twice a day, we don’t care if this place gets rented or not. Really. I know they’re concerned…but at this point, it’s not our problem and if they weren’t such douchebags about other stuff (like the A/C issue), maybe we would care more.

Then they said people didn’t like that the fireplace was covered. Tom said we could uncover that. But then they said something else kinda bitchy and I kinda snapped a bit and said something to the effect of “Well, we’ve been telling people it was for toddler-proofing and haven’t mentioned ONCE that that’s where all the cold air comes in in the winter.” They didn’t have a response to that.

And then they complained about the lawn, saying we need to take care of the weeds. Lord. They’ve never once cared until now, of course, because they’re trying to rent it. And honestly, yes, we are responsible for lawn care, but we never thought about weeds and at this point, we’re really not caring much about taking care of the damn weeds. So I need to pull the lease and see what exactly it says regarding lawn care. Again, if they weren’t such asshats about this other stuff, we’d be more than willing to be amenable about things like this.

So, overall, they just made their lives worse. We are NOT moving furniture around, we are NOT going to make it look like no one lives here, and we are NOT putting everything away. And from now on I am going to be brutally honest when they ask me what the landlords are like and how it is to live in the house. And I’m contemplating not being available a time or two when they need to show the house (since we’ve been EXTREMELY generous in not requiring 24-hour notice for showings).

I really don’t want to leave Michigan (or even this neighborhood) but I cannot wait to be rid of these landlords.