Today’s episode of Why’s My Rent So High features Eenie, Meenie, Miney and Mo, all competing for an academy award. Let’s start with Eenie. She left her apartment with two months of unpaid rent, and she snapped the dials off her stove. Sorry, Eenie, that behavior barely scores you a bit part in a made-for-tv-movie with B-role actors. Let’s move on to Meenie. He abandoned his apartment, leaving behind everything but his clothes. Want some sliced ham? How about a queen sized bed

My tenant saw mouse doo-doo in the laundry room. Mouse Guy said mice are climbing in through the dryer vent and then handed me a bill for $90. To access the vent, Gary had to move the dryer. To move the dryer, first he had to move the washer. Then he had to crawl over both appliances to get to the vent. In the process, his foot got stuck, and he broke a $70 switch. That switch will be here next week. While Gary mouse-proofed the vent, he decided to clear lint out of the dryer

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...

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...

“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...

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...

Warning, the dark web has infiltrated used refrigerators. First, the back story. Before my tenant moved, he took the fridge, tipped it on...

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,”...

My WhatsApp line just rang. “Don’t hang up, it’s X!” I thought it might be a scam but stayed on the line, skeptical but curious. “It’s X...

Here’s a secret: sometimes I skip the headlines and go straight to the food section. I know I should be reading about egg prices and big...