Today marks the official end of our years spent renting houses to live in -- 10 places and just over 19 years in total. Settlement on the new place was completed late last week and today was the final inspection on the most recently rented property.
I'm also pleased that we've never lost a cent in bond/security deposit money. A few were close -- mostly due to the distance the landlord/lady/property manager was from Earth -- but the many hours spent scrubbing, cleaning and fixing someone else's house paid off. Of course, this wouldn't have been the case without our family and many good friends (in three countries) who helped us and were right there beside us scrubbing, cleaning and fixing. We are grateful.
So, now we've joined the Masses of the Mortgaged -- only 30 years to go baby!
Congratulations!Unfortunately even mortgaged houses have to be scrubbed and cleaned!! Not sure how the word mortgage came about but mort = dead...does that tell us something?
ReplyDeleteAt least we are scrubbing and cleaning for ourselves. As for 'mortgage', the OED says, "accusative of mortuus (dead) + vadium (pledge)" and further offers, "[f]or the explanation of the etymological meaning of the term current among 17th-cent. lawyers, compare the following:
ReplyDelete1628, E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 205, It seemeth that the cause why it is called mortgage is, for that it is doubtful whether the Feoffor will pay at the day limited such summe or not, & if he doth not pay, then the Land which is put in pledge vpon condition for the payment of the money, is taken from him for euer, and so dead to him vpon condition, &c. And if he doth pay the money, then the pledge is dead as to the Tenant, &c."