When last we left our heroine...
Aug. 8th, 2013 05:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
practicalcatAaaaand it's been a month since I last posted. Oops.
Shortly before I made my last two posts, my landlady left a note on our door saying that she was raising our rent. It was annoying, but whatever. Shortly after I made my last post, my housemate and I went up to talk to our landlady, and she bitched us out about Andrew having stayed over for a week, blah blah, she doesn't want to be paying for three people down here, we don't pay utilities, she was going to raise our rent again in September, blah blee bloo.
1) Our lease says nothing about time limits on guests.
2) Utilities are, in fact, included in our rent
3) I'd spent the previous two weeks down in Seattle, so really, it would work out about even.
4) It turns out that a) she has to give us three months notice before raising our rent, and b) she can only raise our rent once per year.
When we tried to point out things like, you know, our rights as tenants and so on, she got super-assholish on us and started threatening to give us notice to move out. I finally managed to put her off with "write up a new lease and get it to us by the end of the week. Then we went downstairs and started looking for new places. She didn't get the new lease to us by the end of the week.
We didn't give our official notice until the first of this month, when she finally got us the "new lease", by which I mean she photo-copied the old lease and stapled a list of her demands to the back. That was enough for Justine, who'd been wavering a bit, to officially throw in with me on the "I am moving out" plan. After we gave notice, the landlady came over all nice and sweet and tried to convince us to stay. "Oh, you know we'll fix the dryer!" Actually no, we don't know that, because it's been making horrible screeching sounds for MONTHS and you haven't fixed it yet. When we wouldn't budge on that, she tried to convince us to wait another month and move out at the end of September because she and her husband are going out of town for two weeks on the tenth and wouldn't be able to show the place. Hahaha, no.
Now she's trying to bully us into moving out the last day of August instead of September first, like we said in our notice AND like it says on our lease -- our tenancy ends the first of the month, not the last day of the month. She and Justine just had an argument about it, Justine is super-pissed. We're going to call the tenant advocates tomorrow, just to be on the safe side. We're also trying to figure out how to warn the people they apparently have lined up to move in in September. I'm just hoping that we can move out stuff out of here and into whichever new place we go with before the end of the month so we don't have to deal with it. Or at least so Justine doesn't have to deal with it, because I'm planning on heading back down to Seattle for a bit sometime between now and the end of the month so I can hang out with my friends and family.
Justine told her to put any other communication in writing. Our landlady claims that she "doesn't have time for that". Ugh ugh ugh.
So yeah, that's been stressful and awful.
My class was pretty okay, it was one of the two remaining required courses for my degree after the core four classes (I'm saving the last one until the end so I can be sure I get all the classes I want before they boot me out). This one was about library management, so I can definitely see it's usefulness and why it's required. I also had fun hanging out with people, but mostly I sat around feeling stressed out and socializing on the internet.
Shortly before I made my last two posts, my landlady left a note on our door saying that she was raising our rent. It was annoying, but whatever. Shortly after I made my last post, my housemate and I went up to talk to our landlady, and she bitched us out about Andrew having stayed over for a week, blah blah, she doesn't want to be paying for three people down here, we don't pay utilities, she was going to raise our rent again in September, blah blee bloo.
1) Our lease says nothing about time limits on guests.
2) Utilities are, in fact, included in our rent
3) I'd spent the previous two weeks down in Seattle, so really, it would work out about even.
4) It turns out that a) she has to give us three months notice before raising our rent, and b) she can only raise our rent once per year.
When we tried to point out things like, you know, our rights as tenants and so on, she got super-assholish on us and started threatening to give us notice to move out. I finally managed to put her off with "write up a new lease and get it to us by the end of the week. Then we went downstairs and started looking for new places. She didn't get the new lease to us by the end of the week.
We didn't give our official notice until the first of this month, when she finally got us the "new lease", by which I mean she photo-copied the old lease and stapled a list of her demands to the back. That was enough for Justine, who'd been wavering a bit, to officially throw in with me on the "I am moving out" plan. After we gave notice, the landlady came over all nice and sweet and tried to convince us to stay. "Oh, you know we'll fix the dryer!" Actually no, we don't know that, because it's been making horrible screeching sounds for MONTHS and you haven't fixed it yet. When we wouldn't budge on that, she tried to convince us to wait another month and move out at the end of September because she and her husband are going out of town for two weeks on the tenth and wouldn't be able to show the place. Hahaha, no.
Now she's trying to bully us into moving out the last day of August instead of September first, like we said in our notice AND like it says on our lease -- our tenancy ends the first of the month, not the last day of the month. She and Justine just had an argument about it, Justine is super-pissed. We're going to call the tenant advocates tomorrow, just to be on the safe side. We're also trying to figure out how to warn the people they apparently have lined up to move in in September. I'm just hoping that we can move out stuff out of here and into whichever new place we go with before the end of the month so we don't have to deal with it. Or at least so Justine doesn't have to deal with it, because I'm planning on heading back down to Seattle for a bit sometime between now and the end of the month so I can hang out with my friends and family.
Justine told her to put any other communication in writing. Our landlady claims that she "doesn't have time for that". Ugh ugh ugh.
So yeah, that's been stressful and awful.
My class was pretty okay, it was one of the two remaining required courses for my degree after the core four classes (I'm saving the last one until the end so I can be sure I get all the classes I want before they boot me out). This one was about library management, so I can definitely see it's usefulness and why it's required. I also had fun hanging out with people, but mostly I sat around feeling stressed out and socializing on the internet.
