The Gingham house was the first time I had ever lived on my own. I found this room for rent on Craigslist for $370 a month and they knocked thirty bucks off the price. It was affordable and my boyfriend and I were really excited to live on our own. It turns out we had to walk on eggshells the whole time, the people we lived with were up to something, they never cleaned up after themselves, and we were stressed out a lot. It was our house during a very rough period of our lives but it never felt like home.

Likes

• The room got a lot of natural light all day
• The dogs were cute
• The twins always had a smile on their face and were very polite
• The room setup was just good
• Easy to get to my parents house, work, the gas station, and Winco very quickly
• Our room was kind of tucked away
• The backyard was great for looking at the stars
• Sitting on the couch out back every night looking at the stars and smoking

Dislikes

• The people
• The screen door that wouldn't close
• The garage door only locked from the inside
• The sliding glass doors were impossible to lock for me
• Getting locked out all the time
• Having to break into our room all the time
• Getting hassled all the time
• All the dirt everywhere, no grass
• The oven making that buzzing sound all the damn time
• The people's hygiene
• Everything always smelled like bleach
• Jennifer's laugh
• The water pressure
• The water temperature
• The toilet paper roll holder was broken
• Plain ugly house
• How quiet it always was
• Ghetto neighborhood
• Our housemates always wanting rides
• My car getting smashed into from being parked on the street
• The kitchen light switch's position made you walk across the kitchen in the dark to turn the light on or if you had just turned it off
• People leaving bleach in lemonade pitchers on the counter
• The dogs getting sick