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I guess I'm moving earlier than I planned or intended. This is a problem, but problems have solutions. I'm not so much worried as pissed right the fuck off.
I've lived in my house for 3 years. Paying pretty steep rent for a 700 square foot house with ancient heat, wiring, no insulation to speak of, etc etc. It's been convenient as it is right next door to my coffee shop, and it's been more or less comfortable place to live.
My landlord and I have a history. He worked for my dad for years, so I've known him a good while, used to work with them, etc etc. The whole renting of the place was a friendly deal with some stipulations that he reneged upon from the start. I shrugged and paid my rent and we left each other alone.
Over the years I've kept an eye on him and his schemes as he's made a few different plans on occasion to do something else with my house. After I'd find out his schemes through the grapevine he'd eventually come to me and tell me what I already knew, and assure me he'd give me six months or so warning once he decided to do anything that would effect my living situation.
Over the last few months I started to hear that he was first thinking of turning it into an office space for one of my customers/friends. I heard from this person as they felt I deserved the warning and they didn't want hard feelings for them taking over my living space. Cool cool. Eventually things changed and I heard my landlord was planning on selling the place. He never bothered to come and talk to me until about a week ago when he wanted me to let someone walk through and look at the place. He still didn't bother to say "hey, I'm selling the place, etc..." Guess he'd realized I'd already found out from other folks. Anyway, I made sure he knew that I was planning on moving out June 30th. My thought being that with his plans to sell and my plans to move coinciding it would be easy to arrange an amicable situation that would work for both of us. Seemed easier to do that than do anything that would screw either of us over.
He's just putting the house on the market, he's asking too much for it. Even if it does sell to someone foolish very soon, it still takes time to go through escrow, etc etc. It wouldn't be difficult to sell it with the stipulation that the current tenant would be there until June 30th. Pretty fucking easy really.
But he's decided to give me 30 days notice to be out May 1. He's perfectly within his legal rights with a month to month lease to do this, but after being a pretty damn good tenant for 3 years and the fact that we know each other personally, and that he knew I was intending to leave June 30th, that all my plans rest on moving at that point, that moving earlier leaves a gap of 2 months between when I now have to move and when Oona can get out of her lease and move, that this will probably end up costing us extra money to overlap shit, while we're trying to save money having a baby on the way and all. All I can think is, what a fucking asshole.
I already knew he couldn't be trusted in business deals, and knew he was always just out to get his, but when it's just as easy, or easier to make a deal that will work well for both parties, to be cooperative and keep things on good standing, than it is to screw someone over, and you choose to screw someone over, that I don't understand.
Guess some people are just fucking assholes.
I guess I'd better get serious about going through my belongings, start packing and all that jazz. Start pondering how to make this whole thing work. June would be a better time to look for new quarters, after Univ. lets out. But I'll see what's out there and try to figure out how to work it with the overlap of me moving before Oona and her having rent and such to pay where she is and not being able to help with a new place until July. Guess that doesn't leave us any more time to ponder buying vs. renting. I have 30 days to do whatever I'm going to do.
Cha cha cha
I will.:: Radiohead:: Hail To The Thief
I've lived in my house for 3 years. Paying pretty steep rent for a 700 square foot house with ancient heat, wiring, no insulation to speak of, etc etc. It's been convenient as it is right next door to my coffee shop, and it's been more or less comfortable place to live.
My landlord and I have a history. He worked for my dad for years, so I've known him a good while, used to work with them, etc etc. The whole renting of the place was a friendly deal with some stipulations that he reneged upon from the start. I shrugged and paid my rent and we left each other alone.
Over the years I've kept an eye on him and his schemes as he's made a few different plans on occasion to do something else with my house. After I'd find out his schemes through the grapevine he'd eventually come to me and tell me what I already knew, and assure me he'd give me six months or so warning once he decided to do anything that would effect my living situation.
Over the last few months I started to hear that he was first thinking of turning it into an office space for one of my customers/friends. I heard from this person as they felt I deserved the warning and they didn't want hard feelings for them taking over my living space. Cool cool. Eventually things changed and I heard my landlord was planning on selling the place. He never bothered to come and talk to me until about a week ago when he wanted me to let someone walk through and look at the place. He still didn't bother to say "hey, I'm selling the place, etc..." Guess he'd realized I'd already found out from other folks. Anyway, I made sure he knew that I was planning on moving out June 30th. My thought being that with his plans to sell and my plans to move coinciding it would be easy to arrange an amicable situation that would work for both of us. Seemed easier to do that than do anything that would screw either of us over.
He's just putting the house on the market, he's asking too much for it. Even if it does sell to someone foolish very soon, it still takes time to go through escrow, etc etc. It wouldn't be difficult to sell it with the stipulation that the current tenant would be there until June 30th. Pretty fucking easy really.
But he's decided to give me 30 days notice to be out May 1. He's perfectly within his legal rights with a month to month lease to do this, but after being a pretty damn good tenant for 3 years and the fact that we know each other personally, and that he knew I was intending to leave June 30th, that all my plans rest on moving at that point, that moving earlier leaves a gap of 2 months between when I now have to move and when Oona can get out of her lease and move, that this will probably end up costing us extra money to overlap shit, while we're trying to save money having a baby on the way and all. All I can think is, what a fucking asshole.
I already knew he couldn't be trusted in business deals, and knew he was always just out to get his, but when it's just as easy, or easier to make a deal that will work well for both parties, to be cooperative and keep things on good standing, than it is to screw someone over, and you choose to screw someone over, that I don't understand.
Guess some people are just fucking assholes.
I guess I'd better get serious about going through my belongings, start packing and all that jazz. Start pondering how to make this whole thing work. June would be a better time to look for new quarters, after Univ. lets out. But I'll see what's out there and try to figure out how to work it with the overlap of me moving before Oona and her having rent and such to pay where she is and not being able to help with a new place until July. Guess that doesn't leave us any more time to ponder buying vs. renting. I have 30 days to do whatever I'm going to do.
Cha cha cha
I will.:: Radiohead:: Hail To The Thief