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which_chickStill playing with the camera. At work today, I was up on a roof playing with the leaks at 218. I also spent some quality time on the phone being screamed at by Tenant Alecia's mother.
We'd filed to evict Tenant Alecia. Actually, this whole thing is a big huge fucking mess and it's not my fault. (That is, as ever, the salient point, here. The world can go to hell and as long as it ain't my hand on the switch, everything is fine.)
1. We rented the apartment to Ex-Tenant Michelle, whose mother lives two doors down (also a tenant). We gave Michelle a pretty good deal because we figured she would be stable there with her mother just two doors down. (Michelle isn't real stable on her own.)
2. Michelle married a guy who, never having touched her before, started to slap her around about twelve hours after the wedding. She unmarried the guy in short order. She decided to move in Alecia, her new bestest friend ever.
3. Alecia was trouble and we got complaints from other tenants, so we told Michelle that we were going to evict her if she didn't throw Alecia (who was NOT supposed to be living there) out.
4. Michelle came and cried at my dad and begged him to please, please let Alecia stay in the apartment at the same special-deal rent price. Tears were involved. (Michelle cries at the drop of a hat.)
5. Dad said OK and we did a lease with Alecia on it as the tenant. It was just for her and her toddler-sized son.
6. Alecia threw Michelle out and kept all Michelle's stuff. (According to Michelle, Ms. Not-Reliable-Narrator, anyway. Michelle and Alecia have a pending civil case to settle the matter of their personal property.)
7. Alecia moved in six other people (two adults, four children).
8. We informed Alecia that we were not renewing her lease as of 4-30-07. That was when the lease expired. We did not have to give a reason for not-renewing, as either party is allowed to terminate an expired lease provided that the party gives the OTHER party thirty-day written notice of the intent to terminate.
9. We didn't get April's rent after we told Alecia that she would have to move, end of April. We didn't expect it, though.
10. Alecia got herself arrested on four counts of heroin dealing. She is currently in jail and her arrest made the front page of the paper, with a picture and her name and everything.
11. The people who are not on the lease but who are living in the apartment called up and offered us money to let them stay. We do not especially want them. They're probably junkies like Alecia was. We said "No" to the money and told them that they had to move by the end of April, regardless of what Alecia told them about how they could stay there and stuff.
12. We called our attorney for advice. He said to file to evict both Alecia (who is in jail) and the two adults who are living in the apartment but who are not on the lease. We did that, on grounds of [a] not paying the rent, [b] probably conducting illegal activities in the apartment (Alecia being arrested for dealing drugs and all), [c] having people living there who are not named on the lease and [d] the expectation on our part that the not-named people and Alecia's stuff would continue to stay there after Alecia's lease runs out the end of April. I want possession of my apartment and the only way I can get it is to go through the courts in a landlord-tenant. (No, you idiots, I cannot just go change the locks even though nobody living in my apartment is on the lease and nobody living in my apartment is paying me any money. Even so, I still have to go through the slow-but-exceeding-fine courts to get the fucking squatters out of my apartment. There are rules. We try pretty damn hard to obey the rules, thank you.)
13. Alecia's mother called on the phone and started swearing at me. Her chief complaints were these...
First: I should not have filed against Alecia because I knew she was in jail and unable to defend herself. Uhm. There is no place on the lease where it says you are excused from paying the rent by way of being in jail. Also, she had lots of time to pay the rent before she went to jail on this most-recent Monday... half of April, actually.
Second: I should not have put anything on the eviction paperwork about her having been arrested because that didn't MEAN she was doing anything wrong. (It's possible that the state does not have a watertight case against Alecia, but I'm pretty sure she was dealing drugs regardless of what the district attorney can or cannot prove in court. By the time Alecia's guilt or innocence on the heroin dealing issue is clarified in a court of law, I will have re-rented the apartment to someone else. It's moot.)
Third: It will be hard for the squatter people to get a different apartment if we evict them from this one where they have moved in and are not on the lease and are not paying me any rent.
Fourth: Either we settle this out of court or her attorney says that she can SUE. Whoa. I'm, like, totally afraid now. Totally. Shaking in my boots, here.
Settle it out of court? Sure thing. I need April's rent (as yet unpaid). I need to be shown a PAID water bill from the Boro (and Bev has to confirm it or no deal) showing that the outstanding $665 water bill has been paid. I need the keys to the apartment. I also need a written statement signed by everyone (including Alecia) who was living there saying that they have all moved out 100% and that anything left behind is totally trash that I can throw away. I get all that and I'll settle out of court so fucking fast it'll make your head spin, Tenant-Alecia's Mom. Too bad you slammed the phone down before I could share all this valuable information with you.
Also: Alecia is nineteen years old. (It said so in the newspaper.) How can you fuck up your life this badly before you're even twenty?
We'd filed to evict Tenant Alecia. Actually, this whole thing is a big huge fucking mess and it's not my fault. (That is, as ever, the salient point, here. The world can go to hell and as long as it ain't my hand on the switch, everything is fine.)
1. We rented the apartment to Ex-Tenant Michelle, whose mother lives two doors down (also a tenant). We gave Michelle a pretty good deal because we figured she would be stable there with her mother just two doors down. (Michelle isn't real stable on her own.)
2. Michelle married a guy who, never having touched her before, started to slap her around about twelve hours after the wedding. She unmarried the guy in short order. She decided to move in Alecia, her new bestest friend ever.
3. Alecia was trouble and we got complaints from other tenants, so we told Michelle that we were going to evict her if she didn't throw Alecia (who was NOT supposed to be living there) out.
4. Michelle came and cried at my dad and begged him to please, please let Alecia stay in the apartment at the same special-deal rent price. Tears were involved. (Michelle cries at the drop of a hat.)
5. Dad said OK and we did a lease with Alecia on it as the tenant. It was just for her and her toddler-sized son.
6. Alecia threw Michelle out and kept all Michelle's stuff. (According to Michelle, Ms. Not-Reliable-Narrator, anyway. Michelle and Alecia have a pending civil case to settle the matter of their personal property.)
7. Alecia moved in six other people (two adults, four children).
8. We informed Alecia that we were not renewing her lease as of 4-30-07. That was when the lease expired. We did not have to give a reason for not-renewing, as either party is allowed to terminate an expired lease provided that the party gives the OTHER party thirty-day written notice of the intent to terminate.
9. We didn't get April's rent after we told Alecia that she would have to move, end of April. We didn't expect it, though.
10. Alecia got herself arrested on four counts of heroin dealing. She is currently in jail and her arrest made the front page of the paper, with a picture and her name and everything.
11. The people who are not on the lease but who are living in the apartment called up and offered us money to let them stay. We do not especially want them. They're probably junkies like Alecia was. We said "No" to the money and told them that they had to move by the end of April, regardless of what Alecia told them about how they could stay there and stuff.
12. We called our attorney for advice. He said to file to evict both Alecia (who is in jail) and the two adults who are living in the apartment but who are not on the lease. We did that, on grounds of [a] not paying the rent, [b] probably conducting illegal activities in the apartment (Alecia being arrested for dealing drugs and all), [c] having people living there who are not named on the lease and [d] the expectation on our part that the not-named people and Alecia's stuff would continue to stay there after Alecia's lease runs out the end of April. I want possession of my apartment and the only way I can get it is to go through the courts in a landlord-tenant. (No, you idiots, I cannot just go change the locks even though nobody living in my apartment is on the lease and nobody living in my apartment is paying me any money. Even so, I still have to go through the slow-but-exceeding-fine courts to get the fucking squatters out of my apartment. There are rules. We try pretty damn hard to obey the rules, thank you.)
13. Alecia's mother called on the phone and started swearing at me. Her chief complaints were these...
First: I should not have filed against Alecia because I knew she was in jail and unable to defend herself. Uhm. There is no place on the lease where it says you are excused from paying the rent by way of being in jail. Also, she had lots of time to pay the rent before she went to jail on this most-recent Monday... half of April, actually.
Second: I should not have put anything on the eviction paperwork about her having been arrested because that didn't MEAN she was doing anything wrong. (It's possible that the state does not have a watertight case against Alecia, but I'm pretty sure she was dealing drugs regardless of what the district attorney can or cannot prove in court. By the time Alecia's guilt or innocence on the heroin dealing issue is clarified in a court of law, I will have re-rented the apartment to someone else. It's moot.)
Third: It will be hard for the squatter people to get a different apartment if we evict them from this one where they have moved in and are not on the lease and are not paying me any rent.
Fourth: Either we settle this out of court or her attorney says that she can SUE. Whoa. I'm, like, totally afraid now. Totally. Shaking in my boots, here.
Settle it out of court? Sure thing. I need April's rent (as yet unpaid). I need to be shown a PAID water bill from the Boro (and Bev has to confirm it or no deal) showing that the outstanding $665 water bill has been paid. I need the keys to the apartment. I also need a written statement signed by everyone (including Alecia) who was living there saying that they have all moved out 100% and that anything left behind is totally trash that I can throw away. I get all that and I'll settle out of court so fucking fast it'll make your head spin, Tenant-Alecia's Mom. Too bad you slammed the phone down before I could share all this valuable information with you.
Also: Alecia is nineteen years old. (It said so in the newspaper.) How can you fuck up your life this badly before you're even twenty?
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Date: 2007-04-20 09:50 am (UTC)Having Michelle (who is not on the lease) move back in at this juncture would not solve anything.