Okay, for those who care ... read on.
For those that may feel they could be bored, I'd move to another post if I were you, this could indeed be boring.
Well ... my on-going saga
Some of you may have read my comment in the "what are you thinking right now" ... about my horrible landlord and his psycho girlfriend. The situation in a nutshell is that we moved to this house at the end of October. It's in a really posh neighbourhood, but once you enter the house you see that it's quite different from the other houses in this area. Most of the other houses are detached 3 and 4 bedroom properties. This is semi-detached with 2 bedrooms, one very small, with only one door to the outside, which is in the kitchen. The backyard is a construction site gone very wrong, and has been this way for about 10 years. However, throughout all of this, we were still happy to rent this house. The landlord had gone on about how he was going to do certain things that needed doing, and even reiterated these issues when he came to pick up his post during one of several visits to the house. He would also send me strange text messages, and I asked him to contact my husband and not myself. He also kept delaying the signing of the rental agreement, so we never did sign one .... ever. Which knowing what I know now, I am so glad we didn't. The thing is, he never did any of the things he said he would. I kept asking but all I got was excuses and delays, but funny how he would always be able to pick up his mail without fail. Something weird about all of that I think.
Well, after being hassled about paying rent, which we always do via bank transfer, and him coming here just about every day to pick up his mail (he's never had it redirected since we've been here) and giving us hassle if we weren't here, like we're his private secretaries. He actually got angry one night cause our car was here but we weren't!!! I got sick of it all and emailed him saying that I wanted to know when he was going to do some of the things he said he would, his reply was that he didn't need the hassle, and that's how all this nasty mess started.
And he never comes during the day, it's always at night, and seems like they are always boozed up when they come as well. I walked down to the store yesterday, which they live opposite, and I seen both cars home and seen the psycho girlfriend walking across the road, so why can't they come at that time of day? I know why .... they liked to get boozed up so they've got that artificial confidence to try and bully us.
So the police have been here a few times, council have been involved, as well as CAB and everyone else. It's been a battle of messages sent by email and texts. I finally got a call block program on my mobile so they wouldn't bother me anymore, and did give them my husband's number, but they continued to ring me and text me.
This is a good time to tell kids to stay in school. Do not become adult idiots like these people obviously are.
Sorry that this has turned out a bit winded .... so we're hoping to move in the next 2 weeks, as we've found a couple of possible houses that we can move to, with our dogs and all of our fish. Now keep in mind that not only have we had a letter off the landlord's solicitor saying that as of the 19th we were being evicted, but the psycho girlfriend also hand wrote a note, hand-delivered it, saying that they were "expediting" the eviction, which legally can't be done. I know what my rights are, shame they don't.
Well they turned up last night ..... almost 8pm too, all boozed up as per normal. My husband had just walked down to the local shop (a local shop for local people) so I knew he'd be back soon. I gave the landlord his mail, and he tried saying that he wasn't evicting us and that we got that letter by mistake, and being all nice and kissy kissy. Yeah right. I don't trust these people.
Husband came back and talked with them. The landlord's trying to salvage the situation, trying to get us to stay because he finally realises the situation he's in. Not only is he losing the income he's had from us being here, now he's facing having to pay out nearly £1000 to evict us legally, and will have to put more money into this house before he can rent it out again, and even much more money if he wants to sell it. Well anyway, he's going on and on about how he'd like to work with us, give us more time, etc., and she's on the other side of the car making nasty little comments here and there. Like how she told a potential landlord of ours, when asked for a reference about us, all sorts of nasty things and was quite happy about confessing doing so. She is just not right, seriously.
Well I have to say ... I feel quite happy today. After months of being stressed and with already having issues with panic and anxiety, the last thing I need is stupid psycho people turning up to cause me hassle at night when I'm on my own.
So, we're due to look at a house on Monday and still hoping to hear from another person with another house available. Keep your fingers crossed!!!
Tune in for more saga .....
For those that may feel they could be bored, I'd move to another post if I were you, this could indeed be boring.
Well ... my on-going saga
Some of you may have read my comment in the "what are you thinking right now" ... about my horrible landlord and his psycho girlfriend. The situation in a nutshell is that we moved to this house at the end of October. It's in a really posh neighbourhood, but once you enter the house you see that it's quite different from the other houses in this area. Most of the other houses are detached 3 and 4 bedroom properties. This is semi-detached with 2 bedrooms, one very small, with only one door to the outside, which is in the kitchen. The backyard is a construction site gone very wrong, and has been this way for about 10 years. However, throughout all of this, we were still happy to rent this house. The landlord had gone on about how he was going to do certain things that needed doing, and even reiterated these issues when he came to pick up his post during one of several visits to the house. He would also send me strange text messages, and I asked him to contact my husband and not myself. He also kept delaying the signing of the rental agreement, so we never did sign one .... ever. Which knowing what I know now, I am so glad we didn't. The thing is, he never did any of the things he said he would. I kept asking but all I got was excuses and delays, but funny how he would always be able to pick up his mail without fail. Something weird about all of that I think.
Well, after being hassled about paying rent, which we always do via bank transfer, and him coming here just about every day to pick up his mail (he's never had it redirected since we've been here) and giving us hassle if we weren't here, like we're his private secretaries. He actually got angry one night cause our car was here but we weren't!!! I got sick of it all and emailed him saying that I wanted to know when he was going to do some of the things he said he would, his reply was that he didn't need the hassle, and that's how all this nasty mess started.
And he never comes during the day, it's always at night, and seems like they are always boozed up when they come as well. I walked down to the store yesterday, which they live opposite, and I seen both cars home and seen the psycho girlfriend walking across the road, so why can't they come at that time of day? I know why .... they liked to get boozed up so they've got that artificial confidence to try and bully us.
So the police have been here a few times, council have been involved, as well as CAB and everyone else. It's been a battle of messages sent by email and texts. I finally got a call block program on my mobile so they wouldn't bother me anymore, and did give them my husband's number, but they continued to ring me and text me.
This is a good time to tell kids to stay in school. Do not become adult idiots like these people obviously are.
Sorry that this has turned out a bit winded .... so we're hoping to move in the next 2 weeks, as we've found a couple of possible houses that we can move to, with our dogs and all of our fish. Now keep in mind that not only have we had a letter off the landlord's solicitor saying that as of the 19th we were being evicted, but the psycho girlfriend also hand wrote a note, hand-delivered it, saying that they were "expediting" the eviction, which legally can't be done. I know what my rights are, shame they don't.
Well they turned up last night ..... almost 8pm too, all boozed up as per normal. My husband had just walked down to the local shop (a local shop for local people) so I knew he'd be back soon. I gave the landlord his mail, and he tried saying that he wasn't evicting us and that we got that letter by mistake, and being all nice and kissy kissy. Yeah right. I don't trust these people.
Husband came back and talked with them. The landlord's trying to salvage the situation, trying to get us to stay because he finally realises the situation he's in. Not only is he losing the income he's had from us being here, now he's facing having to pay out nearly £1000 to evict us legally, and will have to put more money into this house before he can rent it out again, and even much more money if he wants to sell it. Well anyway, he's going on and on about how he'd like to work with us, give us more time, etc., and she's on the other side of the car making nasty little comments here and there. Like how she told a potential landlord of ours, when asked for a reference about us, all sorts of nasty things and was quite happy about confessing doing so. She is just not right, seriously.
Well I have to say ... I feel quite happy today. After months of being stressed and with already having issues with panic and anxiety, the last thing I need is stupid psycho people turning up to cause me hassle at night when I'm on my own.
So, we're due to look at a house on Monday and still hoping to hear from another person with another house available. Keep your fingers crossed!!!
Tune in for more saga .....
