Austin Blues

Can you believe our old apt charged us $50 for a strong smell? The only smell we left it with was the same smell it had when we moved in!! And I'm sure they'll rent it out to the next people with that exact same smell! They always have to find something! We took lots of pictures when we moved in, so we could show them all the damage that we moved into - in case they tried to charge us for any of that. But we couldn't capture the smell, so that was pretty tricky of them. Oh well, I guess it could have been worse. It's ridiculous how much these places charge for dust on light bulbs and blinds, nail holes in the walls, etc. We knocked ourselves out cleaning stuff.

It's so nice to be able to do what we want now. Paint what we want, dig up what we want, make holes where we want........which we'll do as soon as we get all the other stuff done.

(excerpt from an email 4/4/08)