My friend Ed and I finally found a nice place to rent together, one we could afford.
The house is not very big, but it has an amazing view from the top of the hill.
The best thing about it is the property, because now Ed and I have six acres of fields and forest to explore. We flipped a coin to see who got first pick of bedrooms, and I won! My bedroom is slightly larger than Eds, but it also came with a hidden issue I didn’t notice at first. My bedroom window faces the rising sun, which means first thing in the morning my room starts heating up. By noon, my room feels like the furnace has been turned on, and it gets almost unliveable. Even if I turn down the thermostat it doesn’t help enough. While the AC steadily brings down the temps in the rest of the house my room stays piping hot. This is a problem for me and Ed both, because running the cooling too much makes his bedroom freezing cold. The AC hits his room much harder than it hits mine, so I am sweltering while fifteen feet away Ed is shivering. The only reasonable remedy I could think of, that I could afford, was to find a small air conditioner to use only in my room. I didn’t bother going to a store, where I knew I couldn’t afford an air conditioner, and instead I went to the local flea market. There I found a 20 year old air conditioner I could mount in my windowsill.