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Dec. 13th, 2004
this, on the other hand, does suck..
Dec. 13th, 2004 03:37 pmThis whole eviction business is obviously still stressing me, in terms of feeling insecure about the new place.
Elaine just had an argument with the new agent about the condition report, ie things that we'd noted that weren't on it like missing light fittings and various marks and burns we don't want to get blamed for. The agent's coming around tomorrow to check out some of the things we mentioned, but was apparently quite shirty in insisting that the light fittings were there, and gave the impression they're going to be belligerent and difficult to work with. I really don't give a toss about some nonexistant fittings, aside from not wanting to end up paying for them, but the knots in my stomach right now are more to do with a fear of upsetting them too much and finding ourselves in this same position in a year's time when the lease comes up again.
This shits me, as i've never been one to take crap from agents, at least on things where we're in the right, but at the moment having had the rug pulled out from under us once has made me paranoid it's going to happen again. It's made me feel powerless and subservient and afraid of stepping on toes, which is not how i intend to live at all. I do not want to be too timid to complain about something for fear they'll decide we're too much of a problem to be worth our rent money (the fact that we got our marching orders within two weeks of our old landlords having to put their hand in their pocket to fix a dangerous gas leak is no small factor in this).
It makes me want to think about buying our own place after all, except that we don't want to live anywhere we could even close to afford to buy. Maybe i just need to get over the shock of this whole thing and get back to the normal mode of "i'll deal fairly with you, you deal fairly with me, and nobody has to get hurt".
Elaine just had an argument with the new agent about the condition report, ie things that we'd noted that weren't on it like missing light fittings and various marks and burns we don't want to get blamed for. The agent's coming around tomorrow to check out some of the things we mentioned, but was apparently quite shirty in insisting that the light fittings were there, and gave the impression they're going to be belligerent and difficult to work with. I really don't give a toss about some nonexistant fittings, aside from not wanting to end up paying for them, but the knots in my stomach right now are more to do with a fear of upsetting them too much and finding ourselves in this same position in a year's time when the lease comes up again.
This shits me, as i've never been one to take crap from agents, at least on things where we're in the right, but at the moment having had the rug pulled out from under us once has made me paranoid it's going to happen again. It's made me feel powerless and subservient and afraid of stepping on toes, which is not how i intend to live at all. I do not want to be too timid to complain about something for fear they'll decide we're too much of a problem to be worth our rent money (the fact that we got our marching orders within two weeks of our old landlords having to put their hand in their pocket to fix a dangerous gas leak is no small factor in this).
It makes me want to think about buying our own place after all, except that we don't want to live anywhere we could even close to afford to buy. Maybe i just need to get over the shock of this whole thing and get back to the normal mode of "i'll deal fairly with you, you deal fairly with me, and nobody has to get hurt".