And went full Joan Crawford!  Chef can remain in the house as long as he pays the bills and DOESN'T house any of the grown ferals nor any of their would be spawn.  The ferals are specifically named and get nothing.  I mentioned the reason that they have self estranged for many years.

On Chef.  He has high BP and is taking meds for it (shockingly) after several drs told him he is gonna stroke out.  He also has an incredibly short fuse and is generally a negative person although he seems to go from deleriously happy to mercurial in zero seconds.

He was brutally honest with the medical interviewer who came over on how much he drinks.   She immediately followed the information with: "has a doctor or anyone else asked you to stop drinking alcohol?"

As a spin off to Esmod's estate planning post, as We get older we realize we are not immortal.  We recently had a neighbor down the street, a very nice and helpful man, diagnosed with esophageal cancer, which is usually a death sentence.  One of my county co workers died of it a few years back with virtually no symptoms.

And also Chef had a recent brush that could have been bad.  A garbage truck completely smashed his parked van but he was not in it.

So we finally got around to getting a term life policy on Chef.  

After less than 9 months I had to not renew with a tenant who I screened very carefully, late forties woman.  She got a great reference from 2 previous LLs back.  He lied--why I don't know as he wasn't her present landlord and wasn't trying to get her out.   Come to think of it, he did kind of sound like a used car salesman and I know he was the actual owner and not just somebody that the tenant put down to pose as the owner.  Maybe was banging her in the past.