The joys of apartment living

We live in the basement of a house. Overall we really like it, but we've decided that the upstairs tenants are crazy. Here are four reasons that we just shake our heads at the people living above us.

Reason #1
They control and AC and heat. Usually it's not too bad, but they have this thing about when they keep the house cool. Lately, (during the summer time this is) they have been running the AC at night. So when it's hot during the day the AC is often off... and it comes on at night to freeze us out. Sometimes we turn on the oven to help warm up the house a bit.

Reason #2
Our landlords (they live in AF) provide us with Dish Satellite complete with DVR. We kinda like it. Anyway, the upstairs people monopolize the DVR. They record all sorts of stuff, fill up the memory with all their random stuff, don't delete stuff after they watch it, and then there's hardly any room for us. We have probably seven things recorded right now... they have around 190. We try to be considerate of the finite amount of space and delete after we're done with something, but they just go ahead and record episode upon episode of The Hills, Phineas and Ferb  (seriously?), Design on a Dime, Gossip Girl, Modern Family, Project Runway, and a lot of other things I can't remember now, and leave it on there forever. Drives us nuts.

Reason #3
The upstairs people are in charge of watering and mowing the lawn. They have been given the responsibility and they have the key to the shed. So this spring they decided to wait to mow the lawn until it was two feet tall. We were like "ummm... they yard is looking like a field..." and so we were pretty excited to come back from somewhere one day and see them mowing. Hurray! When we went outside after they were done, we saw that they had only sort of mowed the lawn. They had left big patches of tall grass unmowed all over the place.

Reason #4
They play the synthesizer in the middle of the night.


Other than that though, they're great!