"You guys were lucky"

I feel like I'm working 3 jobs. That house is a disaster. This is our second week of painting, cleaning and fixing. This is after the cleaning lady and the handy man have been there. According to our neighbors, for the past few years it's been a party house. They've been subjected to broken windows and public urination, not to mention issues with garbage -- our next-door neighbor came over to tell us how happy she was to see that we had trash cans (!) because the last group of people would just let it pile up in the side yard (!!) -- which I discovered decomposing yesterday while pulling up some plastic sheeting (!!!) ... the horror ... it might make for some good compost though.

Speaking of, the yard container is already full of weeds and plants that ... dear God ... I can't even begin really ... I chopped down weeds yesterday -- CHOPPED DOWN -- that were the size of a greyhound.

The punchline: our landlord told us that we were lucky because he has 2 other houses up for rent that were abandoned by the tenants and are a mess.

Not like our house.