Almost lease renewal time....

Next month we have to renew our lease -- already.

It doesn't seem like we've been here all that long.

The good news is that our raises ought to compensate for the $10.00/month rent hike :).... especially since they'll give us a $50.00 rent credit for renewing early.

I'm really glad not to be renting a house right now -- as something like 40% of the home foreclosures are on rental properties --- I can think of few things that must suck more than being evicted because your landlord didn't pay the mortgage, when you were paying the rent on time. You wouldn't even get all the notice that a homeowner gets when they don't pay -- because you don't own the property... some folks are just coming home from work and finding bank eviction notices on the door. They haven't had time to save for moving expenses or new deposits etc...

Really, it is renters like these folks the government should be helping out --- they really did nothing wrong and are losing their homes. At least the homeowners who signed bad contracts did something they probably shouldn't have ... these folks just rented a house and paid their bills....