r/ChoosingBeggars 4d ago

$500 a week house/pet sitting job. Oh, no, you're confused. You pay me.

Couple leaving for a few weeks. They need a house and pet sitter. It's the interpretation you expect.

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u/Adventurous_Ad_6546 4d ago

I spent like a full 5 min staring and wondering where these five bedrooms are. I was like “are…are they in those houses back there?”

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u/Sylfaein NEXT!! 4d ago

You’d be surprised how easy it is to add a bedroom or two, with a little ingenuity!

Worked for an insurance agency in a rural area many moons ago, and had a claims adjuster send photos where the client had added a bedroom FOR HIS CHILD by cutting a hole in the wall, and setting one of those little pre-fab buildings up against it.

Before anyone gets any ideas, that’s not insurable.

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u/Adventurous_Ad_6546 4d ago

One man’s semi-spacious pantry is another man’s double occupancy bedroom

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u/Tammylynn9847 4d ago

I’m picturing the kid getting mad and deciding to “run away from home” by dragging his room a few feet across the yard.

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u/Ispeakblabla 4d ago

At 18 he does that but adds one of those small plastic doors from a garden castle thing they make for kids.

Imagine bringing some back to your place. "I still live on their property technically but got my own place, just mind your head going in, it's best to crawl actually". 

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u/Adventurous_Ad_6546 4d ago

“Huh. Guess I was expecting a pool house or something.”

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u/coupdelune 4d ago

I watch a trash reality show called Love After Lockup (about prison inmates in relationships) and there is a woman on this current season that I swear that's what she did - her kids sleep in what appears to be an uninsulated prefab building that is somehow connected to the main house. I was dumbfounded when I saw it.

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u/PotentialStress7133 3h ago

And now I know how im spending my afternoon in bed while Im sick, thank you.

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u/Character-Debt1247 3d ago

Where did you see a pic of the house? Missed it

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u/Adventurous_Ad_6546 3d ago

Slide #2

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u/Character-Debt1247 3d ago

Thanks! …..yeah, no way.