[orthodoc]

I've had a new dilemma thrown at me tonight. My daughter, the sweetheart who dropped out of her junior year after $100K+ invested in her education, is looking for a new rental. I say hooray to that, because I signed an insane document a few years ago that makes me her co-signor as long as she cares to stay in her current apartment. She's defaulted on her rent twice in the past four months, so that the landlord was calling me at work and threatening to evict her and come after me in court for the rent. She did eventually come through, very late but did make the rent.

Now she's looking to rent a new place, a house with her bf and another person; but the landlord wants 2 co-signors. The other person has a co-signor. Her bf's parents, I learned tonight, are in bankruptcy. So, no co-signor there. She asked me to co-sign.

I swore I wouldn't do something like this. Unfortunately I have to give her an answer very soon and I can't put it off onto anyone else, even though her father volunteered to call her. But she called me and not him; she definitely thinks I'm the easier touch. I can't let him be the bad guy here.

This is bumming my stone big time. I guess it's time to put my money where my mouth is, but it's my little girl. So hard, so much guilt.