This Old House

I wasn't really sure what to expect with this new house. When we decided to move out of das haus, we were hoping to trade up. Things didn't go as planned, so it was another housing battle. Luckily, I found one of the last houses still available in IV, so we wouldnt be homeless for an entire year.

As far as a trade up goes, I'm not entirely sure about that, but this new house is definitely as good as das haus. It's just cool in different ways. For instance, now we have ample parking day or night. I dont have a car yet, but I might get one this year. Also, pasado is way different than sabado (those are street names). Pasado has more trees and the houses have more character. Most of them are very unique. Sabado houses were cool, especially cos you're on sabado, but the structures are a little plain. Our house right now is interestingly built. It has little nooks and shelves built into the walls and the closets are pretty neat. And then there's the fact that last year i had the smallest room in the house, and this year i have the largest. It comes with a bathroom and a walk in closet. awesome.

Here's the catch. The people associated with this house are weirdos. Starting with the landlord: To avoid getting fucked over by google search again, i will tell you that our landlords name is D*. P*arlm*n. This guy seemed like a pretty nice guy over the phone, he talked alot though. And the other thing was taht he wanted to get to know each one of us before deciding to lease us his house. "My house is my baby," he said. "And the less people in it, the better. 4 people tops living in mah house." For a 3 bedroom house at $3300 a month? Fuck that. We decided to lower our own rents by getting a 5th, under the table roommate who would receive his own room. If P*arlm*n ever found out about this, he'd probably be really, really angry. But he lives in South Carolina so, no problem, right?

Wrong. There is an onsite property manager named Mr. Bean. You can usually find him riding around isla vista on his bike, playing with junk and generally looking like a homeless man. From what I hear, he gets free rent for keeping an eye on the house. He's in charge of fixing it up and stuff. His front door is actually through an alleyway on the other side of our house and his home is probably one room (on the other side of my wall!). He's a nice guy, but he has his catches as well. The thing is, he's supposed to fix up our house, but he hasn't been on top of it at all. We've had lots of problems around the house and he's always just been off somewhere doing something else. I know he has a lot of other houses to get to, but he should have started with our house. Cos that should be his main priority. The funny thing is though, this house is soooooooo not somebody's baby. If it was, Mr. Bean wouldn't be in charge of it. But he's finally getting on things, so that's nice. Him and our 5th roommate, who is very motivated, are going to install a new fence (cos our old one is shit) and it's going to make our yard very cool..

Other than that, it's a fun house. It was and is definitely a fixer upper. But it's got character i guess. I also have distinct party memories from the unit in back from. (Freshman year I went to a pink party and broke a bowl chair with two of my friends. Also i peed on the house. Also the whole afshin drama thing occurred here. Wow. ALSO skunks. Lots of them. They like these streets cos there are more bushes to hide in. Fuck. Thats why we want our new fence. So skunks wont cross our yard when we're there.

Also my room is purple and has a sunflower on it. I'm going to get ek to paint it something cool. ALSO i have a queen size bed with a tv and gamecube right next to it. Fuckkkkinnnn sweeeeeet. ALSO our couch surfers are finally gone, so i have space in my room again to put a bean bag chair.



I guess I should update more, but I'm so lazy. Maybe next time I'll tell you about work?