We’ve been talking to our property manager and she’s been talking to her manager and the man who owns our house.

The thing is, we’re gonna renew no matter what because we only just moved in last summer and neither of us wanna move again. And we genuinely love our house. But I’ll be damned if I don’t put up a little fight you know?

Yeah my roommate and I are in this same boat. They tried to raise our rent 10% and we were like no fucking way AND the $200 renewal fee. Never in my life have I heard of a “renewal fee”. Are you gonna charge me $200 every fucking year to renew my lease???! I swear it’s like they don’t want people to live there..we got the increase down to a 4.3% increase which we will concede to, but we’re still going back and forth about the renewal fee.

Do we know if this is the peeping tom dude or an unrelated disturbing incident?

Oh man yeah that’s a crazy feeling. I wasn’t around in slaughterama days but have experienced the same thing with Burning Van. Definitely throws off your equilibrium

The bus is definitely not perfect, but as someone who lives a carless life by choice, it’s not terrible. I felt the same way at first but if you just stick with it and give it a little time to figure out it’s kinks and stuff it isn’t so bad. I take the bus to bus most morning in the winter and am only late on a very rare occasion.

But in all seriousness. Ride a bike. It’s much more realistic and convenient in the city. My bike is my primary form of transportation.