Bye Bye Battleship Grey

It looks like our landlord is going to paint our house and do some other maintenance around the place. I'm somewhat baffled by the whole thing, though. He just painted it five years ago and the paint is fine (if a little prison-like). G thinks he might be trying to sell it, but we offered to buy it two years ago when the market was better and he turned us down. Not sure why he'd want to sell it now when the market's so bad, but who knows. Cross your fingers for a good color!