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[sienamystic]

Bemo is doing better. He has technically quit the job, but was told by the hiring and training people that "he was valuable enough to hire, he is valuable enough to keep on, even if they may need to put him in a different department." We will explore what that means when I get home.

The dude who works at the rental management company when we first got the apartment is being very helpful, assembling our papers for us so we have proof of our valid lease and valid pets. The one hesitation was that our newest cat hasn't been licensed by the county, so I am tending to that asap so that they can't point a finger at that. (That was mostly laziness on my part - they usually send you the forms after the first time your cat has been seen by a vet and Ratchet hasn't had to go yet. He's up to date on his rabies shots, and all.)

They have been sitting on our rent checks - last month's and this month's. I have the carbons to prove they were written. A friend suggested that they were holding them and then going to deposit them all at once, hoping they'll bounce and we can be cited for defaulting on the rent. If that is their plan, it will fail - the money is there in the account.

We are actively looking for a new place. I don't want to hang out and be passive-aggressived by a landlord even if we are in the right. What I hope to do is use the fact that we are in the right to make him give us another month, at least, to complete the move. I don't know about the back rent and the deposit - I am assuming they will try to weasel us out of the deposit.

My mom has said she'll help us with a deposit on a new place. I am very grateful for that. I'm very grateful for all of you internet friends, too, because the support has been very helpful.

Gods above and below, this is enough to make a saint smack his mother in the mouth.

Comments

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's a lot to go through at once. Here's wishing you and Bemo strength and the best of all outcomes - a great well-fitting job for him and a great place to live. I think it's about time for the universe to be gentler with you.

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much. I am doing my best to be kick-butt about all this, and stay optimistic, but it's hard to do.

[maeve-rigan.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you've been having such a bad time with all this stuff. Hoping things will straighten out & improve soon.

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

Thank you, my dear.

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! You like Susan Cooper!!!!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAY!

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

I have loved Susan Cooper for ages, now. I loved the Narnia books, loved Tolkien, but the Dark is Rising books were dearest to my heart.

I have the (very simple) icons I made from the book here and here.

[(Anonymous)]

>>I don't know about the back rent and the deposit - I am assuming they will try to weasel us out of the deposit

I don't think they can weasel you out of the deposit! That should be in a bank account, accruing minimal interest, which they (the previous management company to whom you paid it) must return, assuming everything in the apt. is as it was. That's your money. I'm not sure what back rent is.

You gotta be kidding me, is right. My thoughts are with you guys.

~Kate-h

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

They can probably try to charge a ton of bogus "cleaning charges" that would eat up the deposit. I'm going to photograph everything before we go, just in case.

Back rent is the fact that they're sitting on two of our rent checks. A friend suspects that they're holding on to it to submit later, in the hopes that the checks will bounce and we will therefore be in default of payment.

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

It sounds as if Bemo's employers are humane people. I hope he will be able to find his niche.

[siliconivy.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is so much at once. Well wishes for you & Bemo on everything & hope it all improves soon.

*hugs*