Episode 68: My landlord has painted my whole apartment every spring for nine years and I was the one who kept leaving town for it
Submitted by Tess — Toledo, Ohio. 36. I have lived in the top half of a two-family on the east side of Toledo since I was twenty-seven. My landlord goes by Marv. The rent was six hundred and twenty-five dollars the month I signed and it is six hundred and twenty-five dollars this month, and there is nothing in Ohio that says it had to stay there. He could have raised it any January he wanted. He never has. What he does instead is paint. The first warm week of April, every year, Marv and two men he knows come up my back stairs with drop cloths and put a fresh coat of off-white on every wall in…
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