Staying in business

Rental inspection 1: Drive 40 minutes, arrive on time. Agent 25 minutes late, forgets to bring keys to property.

Rental inspection 2: Drive 30 minutes, arrive on time. Agent on time, brings keys for some other property.

Rental inspection 3: Drive 10 minutes, arrive on time. Agent 20 minutes late, but brings right keys. I apply. Three days later I check receipt of my application: not received. Spend 40 minutes applying online. Call agent back because the email address they registered with the application site is incorrect. "Oh, don't bother," they say. "We found your application. It was here, it was just that no one had opened it."

At times like these, I wonder how some people stay in business.

At times like these, I wonder if I'll stay in business, given that such wrestling saps all the energy one would usually apply to getting work done for paying clients.