B Robson wrote:
> CL wrote:
> 
>>Even moreso every time I send out another rent payment to an ungrateful
>>Botchan who hasn't had a job in his life because Totsan owned a bunch of
>>property with tenants and died, leaving it all to him.
> 
> Inheriting property is very different from buying it to make money from.

Pardon me for not getting out my hankie.  Daddy stole most of what he 
got fair and square and was a bit of a character.  A crafty old fox who 
died within two weeks of being diagnosed with cancer.  I never minded 
handing over the rent to him.  He came to collect in person every month 
and asked if we'd noticed any problems ... which he fixed ... unlike the 
sprog who we pay by furikomi and he sends a mochi at Oshogatsu.  Aside 
from the usual genetic markers, Sonny got little more than the land.

I'm looking to buy something to live on/in, though.  Rental is theft.

CL