Lost in the Mail
This episode of “Why’s My Rent So High” features the US Mail Service. First, the scene: a rural Northern Cal post office, a place that...


Bank Orphans
A tenant just moved out – not the one who tied his toilet seat together with shoe strings. Not the one who left behind 42 gallons of used...


Shattered but Smitten
“Don’t cut yourself,” I told my kid. Glass shards littered the pavement, and we had a plane to catch. It was 4:30 in the morning and our...


How To Make Stew in 5 Minutes
I clean a lot of rental property. Once, I found a refrigerator in the garden. My tenants dragged it out of the kitchen, took the door...


The Dark Web Wants Your Fridge
Warning, the dark web has infiltrated used refrigerators. First, the back story. Before my tenant moved, he took the fridge, tipped it on...


What Color Was the Door?
I was having a cookie last night when the phone rang. Back in the day, Gary and I used to bicker over who had to answer. “You get it,”...


