Roscoe Village, Chicago

How cute are our landladies? One day we came home and the common area was decorated for Halloween. To be expected - our landladies are like our moms in a way.

When we were going to get the keys for the apartment it was one of those really hot days over the summer and they couldn’t make it because one of them had had a “fainting spell.” Then the next day it down poured and they were so concerned about us going outside in the rain without a car that they drove the keys down to my apartment in East Village (they live in Roscoe Village). Also, they had an electrician and cleaning lady and handyman go through the apartment before we moved in and were calling me with updates on what all was going on. One day one of the landladies pulled the refrigerator out and got shocked so a bunch of stuff got rewired. I love our apartment. I’m glad to have landladies who don’t own a ton of properties and are really interested in keeping up our place, but aren’t like in our face all the time about it.