A lease, a utility statement, two pages of building rules, and a photo of a directory board I had stood in front of myself.

Saguaro Ridge, unit 214, Mesa.

Two bedrooms, top floor, mountain views.

Rent: twenty-eight hundred dollars a month, due on the first.

The lease had been signed three Februaries back and had gone month to month ever since.

On the guarantor line, in blue ink, someone had signed Gloria J.

Gregory.

I knew the loop of that G.