I’m still crossing my fingers. I got my mail tonight after I returned home from therapy, the chiropractor, and another pit stop to the store. I needed to pick up a small present for Sarah because it is her birthday this Thursday. So in my mail……. drumroll….
is a letter from the housing place saying a 1 bedroom unit will be available soon. I’m to contact the apt. mgr. before the 22nd! I’m calling tomorrow and finding out what I need to do. My understanding was that they moved my name from one waitlist (I finally reached the top of it) to an “on location” waitlist where I simply waited until the apt. mgr. sent me a letter to inform me that a 1 bedroom apt was available, and then it is all downhill from there…. go in and sign a lease…move in, voila! We are moved! I can’t WAIT!
Especially after yesterday’s incident. When we left to go get our prescriptions, we found a note on our door from our apt. manager. They basically said that this was the 4th time they contacted me for coming into the office to sign some important paperwork and that if I didn’t come in and sign the paperwork within 24 hours, they were absolutely going to evict me. It pissed Billie off to no end. She was ranting aloud about them being “stupid fucks” and gave the office ‘a finger’ when we were in the parking lot. (long past office hours)
1) The first time I got such a letter was back in September or October. Pretty sure it was October. This letter acted like I had already been informed previously and this letter also threatened eviction. That pissed us off because it was like, WTF are you talking about? Nobody told me about needing to come in and sign some paperwork. I was thoroughly disgusted with their form of communication. When I went in to the office about it, the mgr said, “oh yah, I’m cleaning up the mess from the previous mgr and I wrote that so that people would take it seriously and come in to the office.” I consider that rude and inappropriate and unprofessional. It wasn’t necessary for a first time communication to threaten eviction and say that they had already informed me once before and I was in non-compliance, etc. when they had never informed me to begin with…ever. This was an incident compiled with other incidents of horrific communication styles similar to this based on a few things I had heard from some neighbors of mine. I wasn’t pleased.
2) When I first went in, they weren’t ready for me to sign the paperwork. Yep, you got that right. Not prepared. The assistant manager didn’t know anything about it or how to do it. They asked me to come in the next day. So I went in several different times and each time they had some story… the asst mgr. didn’t know and the mgr was out of the office… their printer wasn’t working… the asst. mgr didn’t know where the mgr put the paperwork, yadda yadda. So finally, I go in and they are somewhat ready for me to sign the paperwork. It’s done.
3) Well…. needless to say, ever since I signed the paperwork, I’ve received several notices since then…also threatening eviction. Each time I would go in and say that I signed the paperwork. I distinctively remember one time both the mgrs were there and the asst. mgr. backed me up and said that I had completed the paperwork.
4) So now…. here we are in January, with another threatening letter, this time even more threatening and insistant than the past ones. So this is our plan:
1) We will go in and the firm and assertive, but polite and businesslike ones will inform them that I indeed signed this paperwork.
2) When they act stupid and say “oh, okay, we’ll take care of that,” I will not budge. I will sit down and tell them I will wait while they correct whatever paperwork and file they have on me saying that I haven’t signed this paperwork.
3) I will request a copy of this signed paperwork to cover my ass for their disorganized stupid asses. When they give me some BS about their copy machine not working, I will smile and say that I will gladly go make a copy for myself as my printer has a copy function. I will insist with a smile that they give it to me so that I can make a copy.
4) I will request that they remove all threatening eviction letters due to non-compliance of signing paperwork from my file as a tennant. I will let them know that I will gladly sit and wait while they do it in front of me.
5) I will walk out of there and happily know that I will be leaving this fucking stupid ass place in the very near future.
Oh man, Billie was so pissed yesterday. She was calling them “Stupid Fucks.” I have to agree with Billie on this one. The 1st time this happened…okay, mistakes happen, etc. The 2nd time… okay, but this is annoying. The 3rd and 4th and possibly more than that times… they are stupid fucks. There’s no excuse as far as I’m concerned. I’ve signed it. Each time I receive a letter, I go in and remind them that I signed it and they still can’t get their shit together and remove me from their list of people who hasn’t complied with signing paperwork. I do NOT appreciate threatening letters of eviction when we have done NOTHING wrong.
So there is that.
I’m crossing my fingers that a one bedroom is truly available in the next month or so at the new place. That it isn’t just a general form letter. I think it is truly available because this is from the manager herself and she did say that when an apt was available, she would inform me by mail. Sooooo…. I’m so hoping this is really going to happen asap, instead of months from now.
I will keep people posted on the progress of our upcoming move! Yes! Yes! Yes! And I am so celebrating when this move is complete!
Julie/s