I like to think I am a good person. I am a law abiding citizen. I even stop for people in crosswalks (usually) which is a rarity around here. I am always saying my please and thank yous. But for some reason, I am patiently awaiting all the good karma that is heading my way. My childhood was quite a mess. My good karma from that is A. I couldn’t ask for a better man to be married too. Since we’ve been married, we have dealt with endless frustrations with our living situations. As previously discussed, we are looking for an apartment NOW! We have lived in our place now for 3 years and seen at least 4 groups of people move in and out upstairs. Each group had their own annoyance-not picking up their dog crap, not bring trash out to the curb for over a month (in the summer mind you), having loud parties until all hours, being so heavy on one’s feet, you would think they were falling through the floor, I could continue for days.
Therefore, the main thing we are looking for, besides an apartment without lead, is a top unit. We don’t want to deal with inconsiderate, selfish people anymore. And unfortunately we are also realizing that people with common courtesy no longer exist, or we just can’t seem to find any.
So, when we decided to move out of this place, we thought we’d get our just desserts…is that the saying? Well, so far, no luck there. I’m still keeping my fingers crossed but am quite anxious that I will end up living with my mother for a month while A is searching for a place, leaving me to my lonesome with E. Um…how will I survive that one?
Sure, we’d save some money, I’d have a little help from my mother and A’s parents (I would hope) but I wouldn’t have A around…weekends only. And I’d have to live with fatass all over again. I’m not sure I can bear that (for those of you who may not know fatass is my mother’s ‘fiancee’ -they have been engaged for well over8 years and no marriage seems to be in the future-thank goodness, he treats my mother like crap).
Filed under: family, life | Tags: apartment hunting, deleading, frat guys, house, landlord, sister
When it rains, it pours-that expression is so completely applicable to my current life. My little family is searching for a new place to live. E is taking over our current abode and my little sister (from another mister) is moving in with us while she goes to grad school. Some may question this move, but it’s so great for all of us involved-our family gets to rent a nicer place, K gets to live with people she knows (and homemade meals for the most part), and E gets to hang out with his auntie! Its a win win situation. However, our current state of searching for a place is quite a losing battle.
We thought it was going to be perfect, we would just move upstairs in the house we currently live in, and that would be that. Oh no, things aren’t that easy. Our landlord was initially interested in working something out with us. He then found out that he had people who were willing to rent the same apartment, for the same amount of time, and he would NO have to delead it. Who do you think he chose? The people who have been his tenants for 3 years? Hell no! Money talks…and our landlord listens. I can’t even begin to talk about what a lying, evil, selfish person our landlord is (we used to really enjoy him, heck we were even thinking of having him and his wife over for dinner). As A said it best, this is apparently what he plans on telling him when we move out for good, “I understand you’re in a tough situation-you are the only one working to support your wife and baby, but so am I. When you rented the apartment to new people, think of who you were selling down the river. You were selling yourself down the river.”. Now, with the usual ali-isms that occur, this quote may not be accurate (I had never heard the expression that A used before, so who knows). People suck so bad.
And so we found this amazing place that we wanted to rent-we just had to figure some things out before agreeing to rent it. I emailed the landlady back a few times, no response. Of course, I emailed her back after A and I had gotten completely amped to live in this new place. So, she relisted the apartment again today after I had been emailing her for several days-so I emailed again. She said she’s renting it to someone for a few months but that if we were still looking then, to let her know. We have a flexible situation as our lease isn’t technically up until Sept 1st, however it would be completely awful for K to move and sublet, and then move in with us so we can find a place for Sept. But it’s such an odd situation!
So where we stand now, we’re waiting to hear back about this place we love, while also continuing the search, which is quite a tough one…it’s really hard to find apartments that don’t look like a bunch of frat guys lived in them. Ew.
