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It’s the first long weekend of the summer and you arrive at your vacation home to see your first guests in, excited at the prospect and eager to meet them and show off your special place. You had received many responses to your ad in The Star, but had decided to rent to the first person who phoned because she sounded so nice — a real family person. She said they’d arrive by 4 p.m. on Friday, so you’ve taken an afternoon off work to get there in plenty of time to check that everything’s in place for their arrival. Six o’clock passes, seven, then eight, and still they don’t show up. There are no messages on your voice mail, and no answer at their home phone. Now you are worried. Have they had an accident? Are they lost? Should you stay, although you need to get back home to the family? At least you got a deposit from them. But you had said it would be OK for them to pay the balance on arrival — perhaps not such a good idea now. And … darn … you told them you’d wait, so didn’t let them know where the key would be. So you’ll just have to sit it out.