On 27 Jan 2007 14:14:15 -0800, "Sheldon" > wrote:

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>On Jan 27, 3:55?pm, sf wrote:

..Honestly, I can never figure out why apartment owners put the
cheapest
>> of the cheap in apartments. ut in a self-cleaning oven!
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>Most tenants destroy everything (no point in buying any but the
>cheapest), and if tenants are paying their own utilities they wouldn't
>use the clean cycle anyway, most wouldn't use the clean cycle even if
>utilities are paid... even that's too much effort, they'd need to dust
>out the spoonful of ash.
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>Tenants are not normal people, that's why they're tenants.
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>It's very rare to find a responsible tenant, and then they don't stay
>very long, the good tenants are saving their pennies to buy their own
>place.

Oy! Not everybody who rents an apartment is a lazy slob who trashes
the place... some of us just live in hideously expensive parts of the
country where you have to be a millionaire to own a house. (We're
saving, but it's going to take about five years before we have enough
to buy down here unless the market REALLY crashes, and DH doesn't want
to move north.)

Our landlord was DELIGHTED to buy our apartment when the building went
condo because we're good tenants and our apartment was as close to
immaculate as I could make it in such an old building. I love my
apartment - I just wish I didn't have to have so many neighbours