Since you asked- our house is in Colorado. We kept it when we joined the Marine Corps in the event that things didn’t pan out and we wanted to move back. Now that we are staying in Japan, it no longer made sense to keep it. That is the story of why we have a house in Colorado.

The story of the home inspection that happened yesterday is this: shit is broken, shit is wired wrong, some shit was just built wrong to begin with, and the hot tub is like a dead beluga whale that washed up on our deck (that is ALSO wired wrong). But then there’s the zinger. The personal favorite of mine, if you will:

Crawl Space:

3. It appears a cat has been allowed to use the crawl space as a litter box for an extended period of time. I recommend the cat waste be removed.

What can I say? Un. Believable. I have been fuming all morning. I have some choice things to say but I know that cat lovers exist, at least a few, so I’ll reserve judgement. I don’t like cats, like, at all. Evidently, I should like a certain set of cat OWNERS even less. So, what Im wondering is, if this happened  a tenant or two ago do you think the property management company should pay for this, um, clean up? I realize its a stretch to expect a management company to check the crawl space for cat feces but at the very least they should have a non-refundable pet deposit for things like this. Our realtor said the buyers are feeling “jittery”….gee, ya think? They probably feel like they are buying one of those houses you hear about on the news. You know, the one’s where they uncover an old lady who’s squirreled away a few hundred cats under her roof.

Filed under: Life Under The Big Top (cue the music), This Is My Life, someday you'll look back at this and laugh...someday