How to Decide Whether to Rent or Buy

We really were apartment shopping, we really did tell the leasing agent that we didn’t need to go out on the patio, as we would not use it much (and it was July in Florida), and she really did just stand there, on the patio, refusing to move and repeating over and over “No, seriously, you have to come check this out,” until we finally knuckled under and joined her outside in the humidity.

We did end up renting the place. It was a brand-new building. The day we moved in I had to go to the rental office to complain because the peephole in the front door had been installed backward. The rental agent and a prospective renter waiting for her appointment and I all had a good laugh about the Seinfeld episode about the reverse peephole, then we lapsed into a silence, looking at each other awkwardly until I said, “But no, seriously, can you please send someone to fix it?”

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