A lot has been happening within the last little while. My housing situation is imploding.
For those of you who don't know, I recently moved. I moved into a very complex situation (which I am not going to elaborate on much here). The landlord is under serious financial stress and has "vented" to me more than once about his $15,000/month mortgage, and all the expenses that he has to pay.
My thought on this is that I simply don't care. He made bad choices, and that's why he's fighting bankruptcy. That's not my problem to deal with. I'm not living here for him, or to solve his financial problems - I'm here to simply to live and to become independent.
Two days ago my housemate and I received a letter stating that the rent is being raised by one hundred dollars a month plus utilities. Our landlord insists that we should not take this personally, but that we should understand his situation. He even tried to pull the guilt trip line because, if we truly understood and cared, we would want to pay the extra money - right?
Wrong. My housemate and I are heading down to the tenancy office on Friday, and have begun looking for other places to live. While what he is doing is not legal (the law states that a tenant must be living in the accommodation a year before a rent increase is made), we have no intention of staying here. We will not live and pay money to someone who we cannot respect or trust.
So I'm back in the situation I was in a few months ago, looking for the right place to live. Though this time I have a roommate, which helps greatly with the stress of the situation. We've also got the law on our side, so we don't need to feel (too much) pressure to leave right away.
I'll update you all on what's going on as events unfold.
And Sarah - please don't mention this to dad. He'll find out soon, I just don't want him to stress about a situation that he can't help in.
posted by Lisa @ 2:23 PM
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