How many people feel a 10-year-old is responsible enough....

[magical thyme]

81. that's right. A landlord isn't a social worker...

and tenants have some rights to privacy as well as rights concerning their children.

This landlord, who is supposedly very busy with her own business, knows entirely too much about this tenants' business. To the point that she's coming across as Mrs. Kravitz, only worse. Personally, I find the landlord's microfarm admirable and adorable. But her tenant has a right not to be enamored of the farm, not to be enamored of the landlord, and to simply want to focus on getting her family situation square again.

She cannot do that with a meddling busybody who is using the position of landlord as an opportunity to spy on her, criticize her every decision and then conspire against the tenant with the tenant's roommate.

The landlord has a litany of personal complaints and criticism about the tenant that are, quite frankly, not the landlord's business.

The landlord also has contradicted herself repeatedly, which makes all her claims questionable.

She rented really to the 5 year old?
The mother won't let the 5 year old "hang" with her.
The mother calls the landlord "mother" and the 5 year old calls her "grandmother"
The mother leaves the 5 year old alone for an hour. The mother leaves the 5 year old alone overnight. The mother's roommate is there overnight. The mother's roommate is not there over night. The 10 year old sibling is there.
The 5 year old should be in preschool, was in preschool, is in preschool but not one the landlord approves of.
The 5 year old is watching "stale pbs" on tv while the mother sleeps.
The mother hugged the landlord after she screamed at her about the gas.
It "cheeses" the landlord that the mother sleeps after working overnight. But she's not angry that the mother sleeps. It just "cheeses" her, whatever that means.
The 5 year old shouldn't be inside with her mother and sibling, but should be in the garden with the landlord. Who doesn't really have time to babysit the 5 year old, but the 5 year old (who is apparently the main reason she accepted this tenant) should be "hanging" with the landlord.
The mother cooks with a microwave.
The mother keeps her curtains closed. (no effing wonder)


And calling the police on the mother for abandonment, only to find the roommate was there, and so conspiring with the roommate to be able to call the police when the 10 year old was babysitting for an hour? Wow.