This is last week:
Sunday: Come home and find the house I rent has been sold and the new landlord "didn't realise it was occupied" (!!) and despite reams of furniture and personal belongings has decided to start "minor renovations" anyway.
What are "minor renovations" you ask?
All the windows were gone, the openings covered with tarps. A 5 foot square hole in the roof and the plumbing and hydro cut off. "You don't mind sleeping in your van for a few days do you?".
Monday: Head off to the tenancy board to find out just how severely I can sue this weiner. (very severely it turns out
)
While I'm waiting I check the housing boards and see a house listed for impossibly cheap.
Call up. *This* landlord seems too good to be true.
Make an appointment to see the house.
It's beyond fabulous: 13 acres in the country, modern design and cheaper than an apartment in town!!
He rents it to me on the spot.
Tuesday: Pack all my shit and marvel at how many books and CDs I've gathered since my last move.
Wedensday: Arrive at U-Haul to learn the "computers are down".
2 hours later I finally get my half day rental and am told I don't get an extention and it's $50 per half hour if it's late.
Get back to my old place, guess what?
None of my help shows up!
Much grovelling and begging manages to score up 2 helpers.
Arrive at the new place.......wait for it.......the outgoing tenant is "sick" and nowhere to be found and couldn't move out the rest of his crap.
The truck is due back in 90 minutes so I have to unload my stuff into a *barn* while I move out the other dude's crap.
Let's not even try and guess the last time this dude picked up a wash cloth.
Thursday: Clean for 4 hours and then move from the barn into the new place and discover the phone wiring is all McGivered and not functional.
(Who needs a wire phone but I do need a phone line for DSL)
The phone company calls it an "internal issue" and will be happy to fix it for $400 bucks.
An hour of hostile phone bickering and "Well, we don't want you to switch to cable internet so we'll fix it for no charge..........in 3 weeks"
Friday: While moving cartons of Art Books up the stairs I flip over my dog tumble ass backwards down the stairs and crack two teeth. $600
Saturday: Crib some decent furniture off a friend and blow a head in my van getting it over here. $850.
Oh, did I tell you I had already paid rent for September in my old place as well?
Here comes the happy ending:
The new place is the best place I've ever lived in and while I'm moving stuff into the crawl space I notice all this bizzare wiring and plugs on the roof every foot or so.
Hmmmm, I wonder what they were doing in here..............
Roll back the smelly carpet to toss it out and looky here! A trap door.
Jesus merciful Christ and the Holy Mother of Pearls!!!!!
Looks like they forgot to move something else:
I've sitting on about 4 Keys of BC's finest.
Who's coming for the house warming??
I need to sell tickets to my life!
Sunday: Come home and find the house I rent has been sold and the new landlord "didn't realise it was occupied" (!!) and despite reams of furniture and personal belongings has decided to start "minor renovations" anyway.
What are "minor renovations" you ask?
All the windows were gone, the openings covered with tarps. A 5 foot square hole in the roof and the plumbing and hydro cut off. "You don't mind sleeping in your van for a few days do you?".
Monday: Head off to the tenancy board to find out just how severely I can sue this weiner. (very severely it turns out
)
While I'm waiting I check the housing boards and see a house listed for impossibly cheap.
Call up. *This* landlord seems too good to be true.
Make an appointment to see the house.
It's beyond fabulous: 13 acres in the country, modern design and cheaper than an apartment in town!!
He rents it to me on the spot.
Tuesday: Pack all my shit and marvel at how many books and CDs I've gathered since my last move.
Wedensday: Arrive at U-Haul to learn the "computers are down".
2 hours later I finally get my half day rental and am told I don't get an extention and it's $50 per half hour if it's late.
Get back to my old place, guess what?
None of my help shows up!
Much grovelling and begging manages to score up 2 helpers.
Arrive at the new place.......wait for it.......the outgoing tenant is "sick" and nowhere to be found and couldn't move out the rest of his crap.
The truck is due back in 90 minutes so I have to unload my stuff into a *barn* while I move out the other dude's crap.
Let's not even try and guess the last time this dude picked up a wash cloth.
Thursday: Clean for 4 hours and then move from the barn into the new place and discover the phone wiring is all McGivered and not functional.
(Who needs a wire phone but I do need a phone line for DSL)
The phone company calls it an "internal issue" and will be happy to fix it for $400 bucks.
An hour of hostile phone bickering and "Well, we don't want you to switch to cable internet so we'll fix it for no charge..........in 3 weeks"
Friday: While moving cartons of Art Books up the stairs I flip over my dog tumble ass backwards down the stairs and crack two teeth. $600
Saturday: Crib some decent furniture off a friend and blow a head in my van getting it over here. $850.
Oh, did I tell you I had already paid rent for September in my old place as well?
Here comes the happy ending:
The new place is the best place I've ever lived in and while I'm moving stuff into the crawl space I notice all this bizzare wiring and plugs on the roof every foot or so.
Hmmmm, I wonder what they were doing in here..............
Roll back the smelly carpet to toss it out and looky here! A trap door.
Jesus merciful Christ and the Holy Mother of Pearls!!!!!
Looks like they forgot to move something else:
I've sitting on about 4 Keys of BC's finest.
Who's coming for the house warming??
I need to sell tickets to my life!
miyu:
Hehehe......you have quite the life!