Minimal request by comparison to what many others face but asking if you would keep us in your thoughts and prayers. We're renting our home from a "friend" and is anything but desirable right now. Our rent is paid on time but somehow it is her business that we have a van payment (have had our van since July), where I work etc. We have some things stored in the garage which appears to be an issue and today she put a padlock on the garage and we don't have access to our things without having to contact her when we need to get into the garage :roll: I don't know what the solution is.... moving comes to my mind but with dad's poor health, it isn't really much of an option right now. Please just keep this in your prayers and pray that God will make a way.
I totally know about poor llandlords. Most houses and apartments here are expensive, around $650-$800 (it's a prison town and they don't want trash moving in, but it also makes it hard for town folk like us to get a decent place). We thought we found a bargain place for $500, and we found out one night when we caught a possum in our house that it had a major problem...there was a vent in our room that had no duct...it just led directly to the crawl space. No screws. No nothing. Just open it up and looking at dirt. It also had broken windows, and the plumbing backed up bigtime, and the lady accused us of sabotaging her place, even when a plumber came in and told her that a tree root was to blame. UGH!!! So aweful! We have a good place now that's $650 and it is doing us well! I hope that your friend cools off a little and takes it easy on you! Sometimes I think those people get a little power in their head and run with it, to be honest with you. Just go in there with kindness in your heart, and hopefully this thing can be taken care of easily and painlessly!
Where in the world does she get off locking the garage of the place you are renting? It is a shared property? Sounds like she is power hungry. I would just keep my eyes open and do the best while you are there. It is hard to move with health issues in the picture, but maybe something will open up that is much better.
I am guessing that there are some mental issues involved here. Unless you have done something to damage the garage or her belongings in it she is out of order. Her need to busy herself with your financial choices when rent is being paid is not a good sign either. This is reading like she thinks she is doing you a favor and feels entitled to parent you or something. Do you have a formal lease? If not find another place. If so read it over with her. Your elderly loved ones can be moved at the last moment after the next place is set up and in order. YOu will have to work hard to make the transition smooth, but it is doable. I was care taker for an elderly person during such a transition. You have to overlap your rental times, leave the elderly person set up until the last second then move their stuff in a swoop and set it up quickly. If they are on oxygen, you can get the medical supply company move this stuff for you if needed. Ditto hospital beds etc. If your living conditions are deteriating the added stress in the house will negatively impact the elderly or invalid person as well as the others in the household. They have feelings also and being helpless to impact a change leaves them uncomfortable all the more.
This is what my thought was... if you are renting a house .. why can't you have access to your own stuff! will be praying for you.
Sorry I was working all weekend and didn't have time to reply to anything (all of this was happening on Saturday while I was away from home working and my husband called me at work to tell me all of this..... sooo wasn't what I needed to hear at the time). We live in the upstairs apartment of a duplex. The couple who live downstairs does not store anything in the garage and I wish we didn't need to either. To make the padlock issue that much worse, WE can't have a key to it but her friend (who has nothing in there and no need to be in there) has one :roll: Our landlord is OCD but more than that she is power hungry and feels the need to be in control of everything. If that's acceptable in her personal home then so be it but it isn't acceptable to project that on us. Our 'lease' is month to month so we can give our notice at any given time that we're leaving (if a suitable alternative is found). We had talked as a family of moving to Ontario but dad being sick with cancer and needing a lot of care right now makes it impossible to go any distance in the opposite direction. If I thought he could stand a move like that I would take him with us but I don't think that he could. In the meantime, I have started to collect boxes to begin packing so that when something does come up we can just go. I'm tired of being a marionette when it's out of place. Had we not been paying our rent on time like we should have been or had been doing damage of any kind then I can understand her being upset but that isn't the case. I am not responsible for the tenants downstairs not closing their back door (heat is included in the rent so she wants to keep as much cold air out as possible - understandable). We don't use the back stairs so she needs to take it up with them and not us
New development I checked my workplace online networking system (usually for messages) this morning and while I was in there I noticed a temporary full time LPN position (it doesn't say how temporary it is - those postings are usually several months in duration when they post them) and I didn't hesitate to apply for it. It is in the nursing home part of the business (as opposed to assisted living which I have been working in since June). While the business isn't where I'd like to be long term (a lot of silly issues which irk me - their focus is on dollars and pennies, mine isn't), it offers more stability than the 5 shifts a month that I have now (and any call ins which are few and far between). Because a full time position would see me traveling more in the winter time (ugh!), moving back to Fredericton is a consideration. I had hoped that a move in the opposite direction (towards Ontario) but not in the winter time and the thought of staying where we are right now just drives me crazy. A move back to where I was born and raised would also put me a little bit closer to dad when he's going to be needing more care than he does now. It's a lot to think about...... new school for the boys but more work options for them. It means having to find a new church for us (leaving a VERY active ministry and going to the unknown is a scary thought). My husband would be abel to work from home so that isn't a huge deal there. It means finding a new doctor (or traveling back up here for appointments since a lot of people don't have a family physician in the capital city because they aren't taking new patients). God knows the need and God has a plan.... anxious to see what He has planned for us.
And just now I get a text message asking if I want to park my car in the back yard for the winter to give me more room for parking?? I have no problems parking now..... wonder what she's up to??
Do you have the wrong bumper sticker on it?? Is it a model older than her tastes can abide? what a nut your landlord is.
:lol: I don't know how I missed this but I can't help but giggle at it (thank you - need a good laugh right now) We got dumped on BIG TIME last night with snow (2 feet at least) and found ourselves outside shovelling at 8 am so hubby could get to work. Being me, I put on my facebook this morning that the only good thing that snow was good for at that point was a broken back (because there was A LOT of it and it was heavy). My (slum)lord came back after a couple people suggested a plow or snowblower with the most uncalled for/snotty response ever (and I didn't even say anything that warranted her response.... which I have since deleted). She sniped that a plow DID come by (4 hours AFTER we shovelled our side out so we could get out) but my van was parked in the driveway along with the car which won't start right now (need to replace the battery in it) and the car was parked where the snow was supposed to be put Excuse me, I had 2 vehicles last winter and it wasn't a problem. What's the issue this year? I deleted and blocked her from my facebook (along with her husband who's account she goes on to see what others who have blocked her are saying via her husband who isn't blocked) and I'm praying hard that God will open something up for a place to live. I can't keep living like this (I have no need or desire for this drama). I am working full time now so the logical place to move would be closer to work BUT that takes us away from our church and all the doctors up here (finding a doctor there is next to impossble). I covet your prayers over this........
Move to somewhere in the middle. What you save in commute will offset church and dr. travel. getting rid of the commute would give you time and money back.
