I need to vent.......... this is a vent post. I'm not going to put this in my happy little NoBloPoMo posts... no... can't taint that........
So I talked about our moving, but I haven't really gotten into a lot of it. Our lease is up at the end of this month. We can't afford the rent... and to pay all our bills, at least, not until Dennis gets into the shipyard, which he will... but it'll take time. We've managed to float through our lease, but...... we just can't do it anymore. Every cent is going to rent, bills, and gas... and necessities... which is fine, it's life. Not complaining. But when you are faced with not having anything to spare to get your kids Christmas gifts... it kinda sucks. When you are in a new place and you can't even go out exploring, checking out what the area has to offer cuz you don't have the gas to spare, it blows........ Plus, as much as we love this place, things are not ideal. We can't even go out in our own yard to play, NOT because we're on the water, but because the deck is rotting and every time (it seems) that you go outside to play, someone falls through the deck... ya just can't trust it. Dennis has fallen threw several times, and Kaedyn has too! When your kid is falling threw the deck, and the management AND landlords know, there is a problem. The wood has been out there now, for several weeks and not one thing has been done about the deck.
These all Dennis fell through....
This was their "fix it" ... throw plywood over it..... yep cuz that makes it a lot safer...
Nathan fell through this one ... or was it Kaedyn?
Dennis fell through these
This is our bottom step... yep... really safe...
These two are by our patio door, both of them Kaedyn broke and fell through by his 30lb weight...
Our oven stopped working. So while 2 out of the 3 managers were in the garage, I went out there was looking for something and talked to them. Told them, the oven isn't working right, it takes hours to get to temp and it's been getting worse fast. Then it stopped working completely ... but we were waiting to hear about what was going to be done about it. So ... Dennis called about a week after I had talked to them, talked to the 1 out of 3 managers that wasn't in the garage that day. She played dumb... "oh I had no idea, neither of them told me" .... well regardless of if they did or not, apparently no one cared. Then we got a call back, they were going to come pick up the stove on Sunday and take it to the place they got it ... WHY COULDN'T THEY CALL A REPAIR MAN so we could at LEAST have use of our stove!?!?!? Regardless, we went with it. Mainly because I wasn't going to get on the phone and let my opinion and dislike of the situation be known. I hate fighting, I don't like confrontations... but... I was pissed. I have 4 kids to feed... how is not having at least a stove acceptable in any way!!?!? So they tell us, "we're going to pick up the stove on Sunday" and then don't show up until Tuesday at 9am! WTH!?!?!?!? Seriously, WTH!? And then we don't get it back until Saturday because "they had to order a part" but we're not even told that until Thursday night. When she called me up saying the stove was fixed and they'd be bringing it by that afternoon ... she apologized and all I said was "okay" ... I wasn't going to accept it. At that point, I was already done with the BS.........oh yeah, and now.... our oven works GREAT ... and our stove isn't working right! Yep... go figure!! Course, it didn't help that we didn't get back all the pieces to it! So now one of the gas burners can't be used, and the other ones won't light right away ... or at all ... just pisses me off...
BTW - she said that she was taking the owners back to the airport when she called. Just a few days later, guess who was outside our place!?!?! Right, the owners. The landlords. They live in CA. So, why would they make a trip, go home, and then come right back? Seems a little odd to me. Who knows, but I'm just saying. While talking to them, telling them how much we loved the place, how the baby has fallen through several times, how Dennis has.... they just kept saying "we had no idea it was this bad" ...... seriously!?!?!? They also said "We'll get our son-in-law over here and then you'll see how fast things get done" ... yeah, well, nothing has been done. Not a damn thing. We told them about the squirrels in the roof, the screen that never got brought back that the psycho squirrel ate through to get into our place ... and nothing.... not a thing. Oh wait, they put a grate over the hole where the squirrels ... without making sure the squirrels were out first.
So ... we're thinking, our lease is up at the end of this month. And Ami and Jeff invited us to move in there. They need help right now, with the baby coming ... we'd split bills down the middle. Now, doing that, we'd STILL be paying less for rent and all the bills then we'd be paying for just rent here, PLUS our storage unit. All less then what we are paying now for just rent. Go figure huh?
It'll give us a chance to be able to buy things when we need them, to get the kids Christmas gifts... to be able to do things and maybe go out on dates!! We haven't been out on a date for 2 years! Etc and so on....
Plus we love Ami and Jeff, we get along great, and they are family to us now.
So.... when Dennis called the management (her) to tell her we have rent, and to ask about how we go about moving out at the end of the month, if they need a written notice or what... he got blowed up on. "You have a 6 month lease, it was up at the end of last month cuz you moved in IN May" ... no we didn't .. we moved in June.... she argued with him about that. "I told you that until you pay the pet deposit you have to hide that cat and you didn't, and you haven't paid the pet deposit" ... seriously - YES WE HAVE!!!
What does that say!?!?!? Oh yeah ... PET DEPOSIT!!! She sat there and gave us verbal agreements on letting us pay off the security deposit and pet deposit over a couple months, to make it easier on us... and then turned around and threatened us, if it wasn't paid by July 3rd, we were going to get evicted... So ... we got it paid off. Had to barrow money to do it, but we paid it. Then a check bounced (because we forgot about a payment) ... and then we decided since we already messed that up, we'd pay bills so nothing would be disconnected. We waited on Dennis school check that was suppose to be here by the end of the month. So there was a mix up on that..... and we still owe them $500... from that. So she's going on and on about how we still owe $500 ... ($350 for rent, $50 for a late fee, $50 for a bounced check fee, and $50 for us being late on Septembers rent) .... and we are fine with paying that, but again, we have zero extra money right now. She is telling us that they are going to keep our ENTIRE $1000 security deposit... because of it. Yep, keeping $500 because we owe it, and another $500 just cuz! Yeah, I don't think so. So after a lot of discussion between Dennis and I, we decided the safest thing for us would be to NOT pay the rent this month. $1000 + the $300 we paid = $1300 .. our rent! So we will still owe them the $500 and whatever we owe in damages that we did, or that I can't prove we didn't do when we moved in (I took pictures of everything) ... On top of that ... she's telling us that we're breaking our lease, which we aren't and blah blah blah. Apparently, they are planning on keeping our deposit regardless, and who knows.
But then, today ... we're outside heading off to my Mom & Step-Dad's for dinner and the neighbor is outside. I said "they are going to have fun finding tenets for both places" and she says "oh really?" ... we discuss for a few that we are moving out bv the end of the month, that we're getting the truck on Friday to get the big stuff out, etc.... and she says "oh did they waive the rent?" ... ummm... no..... "Oh they did for us, until January .. well, the end of December" .... so they don't have to pay rent again until Jan. 1 ... why? because of the deck!! Because she fell through one night and hurt her back and went to the ER. My kids are falling through the deck.... we're not getting anything waived!!
So yeah, I'm a little pissed. However, one of the managers stopped by for rent and Dennis explained to him why we weren't paying...... and that we'd be out by the end of the month.
We're just done...... thought this place was soooooo awesome. Thought they'd keep their word and have the deck done .... here we are... going on 6 months of living here and promises about the deck, and look...
There is the lumber... just.... sitting there....
There is more, but ....... I'm just to tired to deal with it. Now I have to pack up this place.....
