renting vs. buying
I’ve started saving to buy an apartment (it’ll take me a while, like maybe four or five years - I live in NYC) but I sure was glad that I’m still a renter when the ceiling in my kitchen started falling down a few mornings ago…
I put a bucket under the leak and called my super. In approximately four hours there were 6 inches of water in the bucket!!!
Like the curtains? Oh, thanks - I made them myself (actually, that’s not true, my mother helped while on a visit). But anyway, the Polish guy that does all the handy-work in our building came to patch the ceiling this morning and arrived only half an hour after the agreed-upon time, which I think is really very reasonable and I work from home (ah, the joys of freelancing) so it’s not like I was trying to leave or anything. I think he probably won’t ever show up again to paint the patch, but that’s okay with me because when my lease is up at the end of July my roommate and I are moving out and moving on.
