For Lease

"First showing of property will be tomorrow at 430pm. Thank you. Ian"

This was Joe's text message yesterday afternoon.  That is one real downside of renting.  When it comes time to move, you don't get much say in people tromping through your house.  There are mixed feelings about how much work we should put into the house looking good. 

• On the one hand, who cares what it looks like?  We are moving out whether it is rented or not.
• On the other hand, what if we know the people who come to look at it?  We have pictures everywhere so they will know who we are and they will know that we are secretly slobs who just pretend to be well put together in public.
• Plus, the management company rep will be there.  We want to look like we take care of the house so we can hopefully get some of our deposit back.
• And the main thing that swayed us... the sooner they find someone to rent the house, the sooner people stop tromping through our house and we can go back to our secretly slovenly ways!

 Someone definitely came to the house today because this was in the yard when I drove up after work:

I can't write this post without giving props to our oldest daughter.  She was amazing with the quick clean and we are definitely going to put her to work in the garage soon!