December 21, 2022:
Landlord husband, perfectly recapitulating the findings of Dunning and Kruger, imagines himself Joe Handyman. One of those "Guys" who lives for power tools but can't find a straight line with both hands and a flashlight.
Landlord wife, vastly more intelligent, lobbies for professionals. Landlord husband has none of it, likely, I suspect, from worry. I think they're broke, so that his do-it-yourself-ism is as much about penury as hubris.
The house wears his mediocrity. And hers. It's not clean, rain floods the garage, the floors are not level.
For me, though: massive, depthless, radical-to-the-roots movement forward.