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Jan. 25th, 2008 11:06 amMichael and I are absolutely delighted to announce that I am twelve weeks pregnant! I'm due August 3rd.
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Jan. 25th, 2008
Thickening plots.
Jan. 25th, 2008 09:08 pmOur landlord called tonight - the first time we've spoken to them since they gave us notice. Ostensibly the call was about the BGE guy who came out to check some faulty radiators on Monday. But then he segued.
"So, uh, I got a call from someone named Rosemary, asking for a tenant reference for you guys."
"Yeah," I said. (Rosemary is the agent for the owner of the house next door, the one we really, really want.) "I hope you told her we were acceptable tenants."
"Oh, I told her you were just great! ...Have you signed with her? Because my brother is thinking about buying our house, and he would use it as an investment property, so, um, he'd be renting it out. But we won't have an answer from him for about a week." And it would be a lot more convenient for him if he could get the house with renters pre-installed, plus then I wouldn't have to do the renovations I would need to do to sell the house to strangers, he didn't add.
I told him that, given that we've found a house we really like, we would now prefer to move. Then I went on to let him know how shocked we were to have our lease terminated so abruptly, and how we hadn't budgeted for a move so early in the spring, and what a difficult situation this was for us. I told him that we would appreciate it if they could cut us a break on the last month's rent.
"I guess we, uh, I guess we had a misunderstanding," he said, "because even though we'd originally asked you to stay an extra year, we told you last fall that we hoped to sell the house in the spring."
"Our lease would've been up May 31st," I said. "That's still the spring, so that's what we thought you meant."
"Oh." He told me he'd have to discuss it with his wife, and they'd be in touch.
Five minutes later, the phone rang again. It was his wife. Who had no idea that we were unhappy about receiving notice! Why didn't we call her right away? She feels awful! She doesn't want there to be any problems or hard feelings. ...When am I due? Would it be helpful to stay out the original rental term? "...And are you really, really sure you don't want to buy our house yourselves? Did you talk to your bank?"
I explained why we don't want to buy. I explained again that, having found a house we like, we think we'd better go ahead and move. But we don't really want to pay double rent for the month of March, given that we weren't expecting to have to budget for a move just then... could they help us out?
The final arrangement: we're going to move the bulk of our things as early in March as is practical for us, and they're not going to charge us anything for the couple of weeks it takes us to move and clean. And she swears that we'll be getting our full security deposit back. And she's very, very sorry for having caused us even a moment's distress.
Feeling somewhat better about the landlords now. But I'll still be happy to get into a different place. And it's really looking like the house next door will be ours - Rosemary said that all she was planning to do was check our landlord references, and if our current landlords gave us a good one we should be in the clear.
"So, uh, I got a call from someone named Rosemary, asking for a tenant reference for you guys."
"Yeah," I said. (Rosemary is the agent for the owner of the house next door, the one we really, really want.) "I hope you told her we were acceptable tenants."
"Oh, I told her you were just great! ...Have you signed with her? Because my brother is thinking about buying our house, and he would use it as an investment property, so, um, he'd be renting it out. But we won't have an answer from him for about a week." And it would be a lot more convenient for him if he could get the house with renters pre-installed, plus then I wouldn't have to do the renovations I would need to do to sell the house to strangers, he didn't add.
I told him that, given that we've found a house we really like, we would now prefer to move. Then I went on to let him know how shocked we were to have our lease terminated so abruptly, and how we hadn't budgeted for a move so early in the spring, and what a difficult situation this was for us. I told him that we would appreciate it if they could cut us a break on the last month's rent.
"I guess we, uh, I guess we had a misunderstanding," he said, "because even though we'd originally asked you to stay an extra year, we told you last fall that we hoped to sell the house in the spring."
"Our lease would've been up May 31st," I said. "That's still the spring, so that's what we thought you meant."
"Oh." He told me he'd have to discuss it with his wife, and they'd be in touch.
Five minutes later, the phone rang again. It was his wife. Who had no idea that we were unhappy about receiving notice! Why didn't we call her right away? She feels awful! She doesn't want there to be any problems or hard feelings. ...When am I due? Would it be helpful to stay out the original rental term? "...And are you really, really sure you don't want to buy our house yourselves? Did you talk to your bank?"
I explained why we don't want to buy. I explained again that, having found a house we like, we think we'd better go ahead and move. But we don't really want to pay double rent for the month of March, given that we weren't expecting to have to budget for a move just then... could they help us out?
The final arrangement: we're going to move the bulk of our things as early in March as is practical for us, and they're not going to charge us anything for the couple of weeks it takes us to move and clean. And she swears that we'll be getting our full security deposit back. And she's very, very sorry for having caused us even a moment's distress.
Feeling somewhat better about the landlords now. But I'll still be happy to get into a different place. And it's really looking like the house next door will be ours - Rosemary said that all she was planning to do was check our landlord references, and if our current landlords gave us a good one we should be in the clear.