Excerpt from most recent email to tenant applicant we will meet tomorrow over dessert:

...please know that the whole reason I rent this room out is so I can afford a cleaning lady to do what my ministry schedule and health issues preclude me from doing to my own satisfaction, much less yours, LOL.... if you rent here, you will see your deposit reflected first in the kitchen you will probably want to use after she deep-cleans it!

I used to manage a cleaning service, but you will see a work in progress, here. I hope you will balance your first impressions with your love for your cat! :~)


To be fair, I want to propose that before you agree to anything here, you spend a little time up there just hanging out to see if the space steals your heart and is meant to be yours. You will probably have good ideas for improvement. It's prettiest in the western sun, I think, so will Sunday afternoon work for you? Then I can follow you back to the trailer to meet Felix le Marmaladus, and let him smell our critters on me?

Also please know that one of the reasons I like to handle things in email is because I am also recovering from a few small strokes that affect my short-term memory. Do not ever be shy about taking me back to a prior email, if I seem not to recall a detail-- I probably don't have it in longterm memory yet.


~S~