Another housing option

Baby and I -- who had previously looked for quite a while without finding anything meeting our exacting home criteria -- are now faced with a housing choice. Some friends of ours pointed out a house for rent in their barrio (that's for NACHO BORRACHO, who is headed to Guatemala tonight). It's (allegedly) about 1200 square feet, which would make it the largest house Baby and I had lived in together -- and it's within our newly-expanded price range. There are about eight people living in the house right now, so the landlord nearly dookied a shooter when I told him that it would just be the three of us in the house if he rented it to us. He was totally enthused, in fact, until he found out that we couldn't move in for two weeks. I guess he's in a rush. Does nobody give 30-day notice in LA county?

We're supposed to find out tomorrow about both of these places. Knowing landlords and leasing agents, however, I would place the odds of that happening at about 500:1 against. We'll keep you posted, dear readers.