She did not promise a rented home had no maintenance obligations or that nobody could ever bother me there.

The entrance lock would be changed with the landlord’s permission.

I would receive the new keys.

None would be given to David’s family merely because they said they were related to me.

I asked her to write that arrangement clearly.

“Twelve hundred dollars for the security deposit and first month’s rent,” she said.

I had fourteen hundred in my separate savings.

“That leaves two hundred.”