Now, there are many animals living in my flat – mice. They scratch around in the walls, keeping us awake
They say there’s a fine line between love and hate. There’s only a single letter between a pet and a pest. Distinguishing between the two might be easy for some, but not where landlords are concerned.
Take my last landlord, who flew into a rage when he learned we were feeding a stray cat in our strictly-no-pets building. It didn’t technically live there, we argued. “Neither do you any more,” he replied.
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