You know what's even scarier to me than buying a house? Playing phone tag with the property company from whom we're currently renting. I sent a rather kick-ass e-mail to their office essentially blaming our wish to buy on my pregnancy (mostly true), and used extremely neutral and diplomatic language to convey the fact that we hoped we'd be able to work out some way to get out of our lease.
I received an extremely neutral and diplomatic phone message in return, having missed the call because I was at work being told that the one Saturday I requested off two months from now would be"impossible" (a whole other story).
I have to believe that not every first-time home buyer waits until the magic day his or her lease expires to jump on the real estate bandwagon. People lose jobs, find other jobs, and outgrow 1100 square foot spaces when their families expand every single day. There must be SOME way we can work out finding new tenants, or a subleasor, or something. Until I manage to speak to the property company, however, I'm going to be imagining the worst.
Let the neutral and diplomatic wars begin.
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Have you ever watched Futurama? There's a great episode where Zap Brannigan attacks the Neutral planet because he hates their neutrality. ("What makes a man go neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?") He makes neutrality out to be an evil thing, and your blog post just reminded me of that. Hilarious :)
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