The Deadbeat Landlord

My deepest apologies for falling off the map. A lot has happened in the last few weeks. The most stressful by far is our living situation. It appears that our landlord has not been paying his mortgage for some time. I started my new job, flew back from California and had a notice to foreclose posted on my house when I returned. A few days later a man came by to serve my landlord with papers (it appears he claimed this house as his primary residence).

So now the problem…. It seems we have about 2 weeks to find a new house and move. My husband and I were planning on buying a house in about six months when we could have a larger down payment. This is not going to happen now. Our timetable has been moved up a tad. I talked to the real estate company that manages the property and faxed them over the notice. They called me back and said that he has 5 total properties that are being foreclosed on and they only reason they found out was because of my notice. What the hell? I’ve been paying my rent, where has this money gone? He not only has gotten behind over $10,000 on his mortgage here, but has failed to pay the property taxes and the homeowner’s fees. Everyone wants a piece of our house now, which they think is the house where he lives. And to top it off, I have the same last name as this deadbeat, so things look even more suspicious to outsiders when I claim I’ve never even met the man. What are the odds?

The bank considers us illegal tenants since he had no right to rent the place according to his mortgage. It appears that they will give us anywhere from 24 hours to 7 days to get out. I have offered to take over the mortgage payments as rent (since they are about the same) to try and buy us more time to move. They said they won’t discuss this with me until they actually foreclose because I’m not currently an interested party. When I’m illegally in THEIR house, then I’m interested I guess.

Now I have no idea what my legal rights are, but I’m trying to find out (if anyone out there knows, please shoot me a message). Most of the real estate people have the same response, “you have no rights, get out now.” One of my friends had this happen to her in Florida and she said they had 7 days to get out. They didn’t get all of their stuff out and they lost what was left. The police actually came and made them leave.

So tomorrow my husband and I go on a massive house hunt. We went last week and didn’t find anything we liked. I cannot believe how people live!!!! Why the fuck would you buy a really nice house and then let your dog chew up the molding and the cats pee all over the place? Some places were just unbelievably disgusting, some were merely too big or small or too far from the highway. I’m hoping tomorrow we have better luck.

My Beef This Week

My beef this week is with people who have no sense of responsibility. What the hell is up with our deadbeat landlord? He gets rent from 5 properties (I asked and everyone paid) and pockets it all for 5 months? He should go to jail, and I hope he does. I hope at the very least he has to pay every cent of that money back plus a bunch of fines. But the asshole will probably declare bankruptcy and all of the rest of us responsible suckers will bear the financial burden through some means.

And what is with these other people that can’t even take care of their own homes? What are you teaching your children when you let your pets destroy your home like that (and judging from their house they had several kids)? One house we went into had 3 cats abandoned there INSIDE! I made the real estate agent call animal control. These poor cats had run out of food, who knows how long ago. For water they must have been drinking out of the toilets because they were damn sure peeing everywhere. No litter boxes to be seen so you couldn’t really blame them.

Many people don’t seem to care when they are inconsiderate or irresponsible anymore. They are either so self-centered they have no idea how it affects others or they are so self-centered that it doesn’t matter to them.

I went to a meeting in Los Angeles last week and there was this presentation I went to where I sat in about the third row. Two French physicians sat next to me and talked through the entire presentation in conversational level French so that the rest of us could not hear a damn thing. I asked them to stop and they did for about 30 seconds then it continued on. Other people shushed them or stared daggers into their faces, but it continued through the whole 1-hour presentation. The poor presenter was exasperated. What the fuck? We all paid a lot of money to hear these talks and they were oblivious to how their behavior pissed off over 200 people.

Yesterday I nearly killed a man in Office Depot. It was one of those “last straw” days. This guy held up 2 clerks and a manager for 30 minutes. 30 MINTUES, while he demanded to get his 10 dollar gift certificate, which he technically was not supposed to get since the special started today. He tore into those poor people for a measly 10 bucks and refused to let any other customer pass until he was satisfied. The one clerk who was having to check everyone else out in the store had line a mile long. I waited in that line for almost 30 minutes (after I waited in the asshole line for about 10). The manager finally gave him an in-store credit just to get him out of the store. What the fuck???? If I would have had 10 bucks cash on me, I would have slapped it in his hands and told him what an asshole he was. Instead I told him what an asshole he was for free, which felt just as good and was even cheaper.

So all of you out there, be courteous to your fellow man (unless of course they are being discourteous, then politely tell them to go fuck themselves after checking for weaponry). You never know when you’ll be some gun-toting person’s “last straw.”