Thanks. In one post my faith in humanity is restored yet again. Of course, if you saw the library I packed you might just kill me to get it. Either that or invite me to live with you. :)
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Eric Roberts < [email protected]> wrote: > > That sucks...I hope you find a place soon! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 3:23 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Where I am > > > The answer to the subject is nowhere. I had to move out of my apartment of > 18 years at the end of July. I was supposed to move into a new place a few > days before the end, having previously given the new landlord a deposit. He > begged off saying that the house was not ready and could we wait for Sunday > (the 4th). At this point we also gave him a check for the first months rent > and security. > We moved all of our stuff into the garage, basement, and side yard of my > parents house and stayed over the weekend. Sunday came along and the > landlord said he wasn't comfortable letting us move in without a lease and > he was waiting for one from his lawyer. A standard one from Staples wasn't > good enough. > Monday rolls along and we hear that his lawyer said that he should not give > the lease to us but instead should give it to our lawyer. We got a friend > to > give his lawyers number and we waited. and called. and waited. and called. > Thursday we finally hear from him saying that he decided not to take us as > tenants and the reason was that he tried to cash the rent/security check > and it bounced. The account was $20 short and the bank didn't extend > protection to the check. > Maybe it was because he was using a check cashing place to avoid the money > showing up in a bank account and coming to the attention of his soon to be > ex-wife. Either way, he flaked on us. > So now we're stuck in my parents house, living out of bags of clothing, our > stuff packed away, no phone, no internet, and trying to find a new > apartment > before the holidays (starting next week). Add to this a new contract with > the city for me, school for all of the kids other than my youngest > daughter, > who we had to find a new school for, and my mother has to go into the > hospital to get what was said to be a bunch of tumors biopsied. Oh, and > because I was waaaay to late on invoicing a client, I'm out about 20k which > I was depending on to deal with apartment and yeshivas. > But I'm alive so at least I've got that in my favor. That's a good thing > right? right? > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:366808 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
