Tenants and Benefits

Our house situation appears to be near resolution! After six months of being on the market with precious little interest (a glut of houses at our price point in Plymouth), friends of ours introduced us to a couple who are living in a winter rental in town and need new digs. We met with them yesterday morning and found them to be really personable and trustworthy. Tom has done a 180 and agreed to pull the house off the market if they would agree to a one-year lease. We still need to finalize the details, but if all goes well, they should move in mid-June!

Yippee! Selling the house in this market would have been financially foolish, and Tom is very relieved to be renting to a somewhat known-entity. Our stress level is beginning to diminish...only to be slightly offset by a minor flood from our second floor bathroom earlier in the morning through the light over our kitchen sink on the first floor. Help -- anyone know a plumber?

Last night we were at the BBC for a benefit for one of our favorite bartenders, Kenny, who is battling lymphoma. The folks at the BBC pulled out all the stops for his family and did a wonderful job raising more than $15K at last count. A pair of Tom's Patriots tickets sold for $500 in a live auction! Technically Kenny's disease should be curable through chemo and a bone marrow transplant, but three rounds of chemo to date haven't decreased the cancer. Ironically, he has been denied disability because of the cure rate, putting him in an awful Catch-22 of health care. Yet another reason why a new administration is needed in the White House to put things to right.

Tom of course dropped $$$ on raffle tickets and walked away with all sorts of goodies -- at one point, the crowd began to turn on him for winning so often, so he quickly passed off the remaining tickets to a friend and let her take the rest of the winnings!