July 5th, 2005

the saga of the apartment continues

So here’s something fun. I’ve been posting about my recent soon-to-be-homeless status, i.e., my landlord sold the house to his daughter and now she wants to give my apartment to her nephew. Fortunately, J found a realtor, convinced them I was fabulous and found me a place to live (love him).

Still with me? If not, read this.

Anyway, the real estate people did the credit and background check today—called my work and called my landlord. Here’s where this gets fun.

Apparently, the landlord’s daughter (the new landlord who is evicting me) hasn’t told her dad (the old landlord who LOVED me) that she asked me to move out. So he gets the call and is like, “She’s moving? Why?” Then he proceeds to tell them to call his daughter because she is the new landlord.

(BTW, I’m hearing about this from the landlord’s daughter, at 9 PM when I got home from work.)

So then he calls his daughter to ask “WTF?” (I’m only guessing…) And guess what.. she flat out lied to him. Told him I wanted to move closer to work and blah, blah, blah. Now I’m thinking “WTF?!”

THEN she says, “Oh, and he asked Zack [her son] and Zack lied too. He told him that since he [her dad] wasn’t the landlord anymore you didn’t want to be here… or something like that.”

People, I do not lie—she’s actually telling me all this, proud that her son lied to his grandfather, blah, blah, blah.

Now I’m freaking a little… what do the real estate people think of me? Do they think I didn’t tell my landlord I was moving out? Did my landlord get mad when they called him? Is his daughter insane or something?

Argh MF. (BTW, I try not to cuss too much—or not to use the f-word—in deference to my parents, who might one day stumble across this—yeah right but whatever—and know it’s me and yell at me for swearing.)

OK, anyway, here’s the kicker. My landlord’s daughter? The new landlord? Who asked me to move out and who lied to her dad?

She’s freaking 45 years old! What, do people never grow up?!