Tenants
Our house is a transit house .
There are 3 bedrooms. The smallest one was supposed to be mine. But as the thought of a 2x3 arms length of a box room as an abode seems unimaginable to me, I managed to get the housemates to let me have the living room instead. The bed upstairs was dragged downstairs. Tried to camoufladge the bed by having duvet covers whose colour would streamline with the rest of the furniture. This huge room - same width as the garden and about 3/4 of the length of the house is all mine..cept that I would need to have it available for functions, get togethers etc. I said truly I don't mind.
Because of the unoccupied room upstairs, we have been having 'unofficial' tenants for the past year or so. There have been two so far...and another one is in the pipe line. These tenants are students who are into their final leg of their thesis writing their final chapters. Finishing a PhD is not a straight forward procedure. Even if you're nearly there,waiting for the supervisor to read your drafts, finding an external examiner and setting a viva date, to say that it can take weeks or month can be anybody's guess but it is usually less than a year. In this small town, to get a place for less than 6 months is ..I dun think so. And it seems the small room upstairs would be a haven for them... and us (for the extra income).
There are 3 bedrooms. The smallest one was supposed to be mine. But as the thought of a 2x3 arms length of a box room as an abode seems unimaginable to me, I managed to get the housemates to let me have the living room instead. The bed upstairs was dragged downstairs. Tried to camoufladge the bed by having duvet covers whose colour would streamline with the rest of the furniture. This huge room - same width as the garden and about 3/4 of the length of the house is all mine..cept that I would need to have it available for functions, get togethers etc. I said truly I don't mind.
Because of the unoccupied room upstairs, we have been having 'unofficial' tenants for the past year or so. There have been two so far...and another one is in the pipe line. These tenants are students who are into their final leg of their thesis writing their final chapters. Finishing a PhD is not a straight forward procedure. Even if you're nearly there,waiting for the supervisor to read your drafts, finding an external examiner and setting a viva date, to say that it can take weeks or month can be anybody's guess but it is usually less than a year. In this small town, to get a place for less than 6 months is ..I dun think so. And it seems the small room upstairs would be a haven for them... and us (for the extra income).
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