Sheldon wrote:
> Dave Smith > wrote:
>> Janet Baraclough wrote:
>>
>>> why all the clandestine espionage
>>>> about renting a house with her brother?!?!?
>>> � Nothing clandestine; her post �made clear the rented place they shared
>>> was long ago.
>>> � You got the wrong end of the stick, no need to beat yourself silly with it.
>> FWIW I thought it was pretty clear when she said that she and her
>> brother were room mates and were renting a house that they were paying
>> rent to live in the place, not renting out a house.
>
> Then you must be clairvoyant. The original post says no such thing
> about whether they paid rent or collected rent... to my way of
> thinking when folks talk about selling a house it makes more sense
> that they were collecting rent on a house they own. And no where does
> it say anything about Jill's parent's house.
>
> Yoose both have a reading comprehension problem.
> =====================
> Jill's original post:
>
> "For some reason my middle brother thinks before we can sell this
> house we
> need to buy a new refrigerator. He and I were roommates in the 1980's
> and
> we *rented* a house. It didn't come with a refrigerator. I bought
> one."
> ======================


Get a seven year old to explain it to you.

"It don't come with a refrigerator. I bought one" should explain it even
to the most obtuse person. If she were renting it out and she bought a
fridge, then the apartment have have come with a fridge. Only an idiot
would think that there was any suggestion that she and her brother were
renting the house out......and come to think of it..... you are the only
one questioning it.




She didn't say that they had bought a house and rented it out. Nor did
she say that they got a fridge for the tenant.



If she had said that they had gone on vacation together and rented a
car, would you think that they rented their car to someone else?