inspection

 There are many things I really do appreciate about apartment living. I don't worry about leaky roofs, flooded basements, lawn care, weed pulling, furnace or AC breakdowns, appliances catching fire, etc.  You get the idea.  I have experienced all of the joys listed above in my years of home ownership.  Not all at once of course but still.  Ok, not exactly everything.  The appliance that caught fire was my mother's clothes dryer (but I was still living at home then so that should count). But there is one aspect of apartment dwelling that doesn't thrill me, apartment inspections.  Now this doesn't happen too often, once a year at most, and it is, as they take pains to explain, just a quick check of the 'condition of the building.'  But you know, and I know, that I, and most other people, don't want their home looking sloppy when inspectors come in.  So for the next three days (or at least til they get to my place) I will be keeping things picked up and straightened up.  Now that I think about it, this may be a sneaky plot by management to make sure we all clean our apartments.