num_pages: 280
description: An unsuspecting landlady navigates exploding plumbing, financial independence, and the 2008 market crash with no blueprint.Detouring from the traditional timeline of marriage-kids-house, twenty-six-year-old Vikki Warner skips straight to homeownership. She buys a downtrodden three-story house in Providence, Rhode Island, and suddenly finds herself responsible for a rotating cast of colorful tenants. Adulthood comes with unforeseen challenges: backed-up sewage, gentrification, global economic downturn. A candid portrait of how sharing space profoundly reshapes our lives, and forces us to grow into ourselves.
language: English
title: Tenemental: Adventures of a Reluctant Landlady
publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY