Melania broke a sweat as she carried what felt like the hundredth box up the stairs of Kaleigh’s new house. It was a standard four-bedroom, three-bathroom house in a nice neighborhood with all the necessary ingredients for raising a family. Kaleigh and her husband had recently moved to the area with their two kids, and Melania was happy to help her old college roommate settle in after 15 years apart. “Where do you want th...

“There’s no hot water!” Monica yelled from the shower in their small cottage. “Ugh. All right—maybe the circuit breaker tripped. I’ll see if I can find it,” Walker called back. Walker was annoyed that he had to spend part of his vacation fixing the hot water in this old but well-kept cottage nestled in the Tuscan countryside. Then again, he enjoyed a challenge like this, and he knew that his ability to fix things was a sl...