#21 STILL in progress.  95% sure this deal is falling through.  Despite the house needing little things here and there, we asked the sketchy caretaker, a diminutive Thai woman who turned out to be the owner, nothing except for a $300 safety repair job on the balcony’s railings in order to prevent any unnecessary deaths.  The owner refused and said that the railings were fine as long as no one leaned against them.  Well, we felt there was a good chance that someone would indeed do just that at least seven hundred and thirty times over the next, say, seven hundred and thirty days, so we stood firm.  It’s a great house, but I, represented by my former co-tenant Matt Lucey, have already taken one landlord to court and I don’t care to do it again.  Wouldn’t want to tarnish the one for one record.  Long story short, we’re still looking for our view.