Well, well, well.

Email received from Cliff regarding the apartments:

Hi Tamara,
     I have found someone who wants the top floor without having to make changes to the kitchen.  I will probably fix it down the road but don’t have the finances to do it right away.  They wanted to give me a check johnny on the spot, but I told them I had half heartedly promised it to you.  I got your e-mail and it looks like you might be hemming and hawing over which apartment you should take.  I really like both of you, the other tenants as well as yourself and Brian.  I figured rather than lose two good prospective tenants, I would try to work with both of you.  The others desperately want the other apartment and like I said wanted to give me a check immediately.  As a matter of fact, she wants to bring her roommate up Friday to see the apartment and give me a check.  I really like you and Brian, and figured if it is not too much of a burden, I would like to try and get you into the Victorian apartment and charge you $1,350.00 per month including all utilities (except telephone and cable) and still offer you one of the units across the street on the upper 2 floors when I go to sell them down the road.  In other words, I would save you $50.00 per month and give you your long term lease, and a first choice of changing a rental or buying  either your current unit or one across the street  whichever you would prefer when the opportunity presents itself.  If you could think of any other little things I can try to do to make things more accommodating, I wouldn’t object to hearing them and maybe trying to help you out further.  I hope you see where I am coming from, and I really hope you choose to stay.  Please let me know if there is anything I can do.  I will be at my office from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm on Friday, so please call me when you get a chance.   Thank you for your time.

Best Regards,
Cliff 

 

My reply:

Hi Cliff:
 
It really pains me to send this email to you.  Especially in light of how fantastic you’ve been in this last email.  It’s so hard to find a good landlord, one who is nice and so accommodating, especially with our unique pet needs. 
 
All that being said, Brian and I have discussed moving these past few days, weighing the pros and cons and we’ve decided it’s not financially feasible for us to move right now without great difficulty.  
 
I’m so sorry but am very happy to hear that you already have a taker for your awesome property.  I am jealous of her.  She’s getting one fantastic place…and the view…*sigh*
   
It will take us some time to save money to move.  I hope that when that time comes you have property open and I hope I can retain your information for inquiry when that time comes.  Rest assured, if and when that time comes we’ll be there with check in hand!
 
Sincerely,
Tamara

His Reply:
 
Hi Tamara,
     I really appreciate your e-mail.  Please call me when you get a chance or forward to me your number and I will call you.  I still would like to work with you. 

Best Regards,
Cliff

My Reply:
 
Hi Cliff:
 
I will be going away this weekend but will return on Sunday.  I’ll call you then. 
 
Sincerely,
Tamara

Hi Reply:
 
Hi Tamara,
     Feel confident that I am going to try and work things out.  Have a nice weekend!!

Cliff

WOW!!!  I fibbed a little when I said I was going away this weekend.  Although I am delivering Haiku and Hana
 

 

to their new forever home…together. Weeee. Then Sunday Michelle is coming to pick up Sheila. Bye-bye Haiku and Hana. I’ll miss your precious puppyness but know you’re going to a fantastic home where you’ll get more attention. Same to you Sheila. Surprisingly enough, Brian is feeling a bit melancholy over seeing her go. Awwww…he mentioned a snake…I was like, NOOOO WAY! NO more reptiles…NO MORE PETS!!! Imagine that, me? Saying no more pets. But even I know my limits. Especially with wanting to move. Just in general really, it’s easy to cross the line and be called a "collector". Ya know?

 

 

Okay, I so back to moving. I also wanted a chance to sit and talk to Brian about the new developments. The apartment he’s offering is the one Brian really liked. Perhaps if he can get some of his old/current coworker friends to help move our stuff and we rent a truck the costs will be significantly less. Since we’ll be giving a months notice we’ll be able to pay the first months rent when we move on. Then we can pay like $200.00 or so a month towards our last month’s rent/security deposit catching that up in full when I get my yearly bonus in December.

Even possibly getting a bonus before then since we are settling or coming really close to settling some of our large cases lately. I chatted with Attorney #1 today (my main boss) and we said Attorney#4 told him that I was having some landlady issues. He wanted to know if he could advise me to my rights or something. So I told him the whole saga and he confirmed my rights as a tenant. Blah, blah, blah. Then he asked me if my current apartment was a really great one and I told him no. Not really. It’s got a lot of "cons" and always has. I’ve always loved this HOUSE, the apartment I really just took because it was the first one I saw in the neighborhood I wanted to live in and I wanted the hell out of my brother’s place. Brian’s always hated it.  These eaves are really hard on him…he constantly cracks his head around here. 

I then slipped we’ve wanted to move for a long time but it’s the cost and pets that have kept us back. He said, "Yeah, all those pets would be an issue for any landlord." I said, "yeah, you would think so right? I did, as well as my landlady who throws it up in my face every time I present an issue to her…but I’ve been approached by a LOT of different people willing to rent to me…I just can’t afford to move right now." Soooo…maybe he’ll throw an extra paycheck my way soon when we settle this case. He did get a really awesome compliment about me from one hard-assedadjuster today when we settled a particularly difficult tort claim against a catering company and dumpster company. (There really was NO liability against them but I talked them into kicking in $6500.00 a piece towards the settlement of the entire case. Under the basis of settling their portion based on nuisance value.) Hee hee. He told my boss he’s been in the business for years and years and my demand resume was the best he’s ever seen. HA! He’s received quite a few compliments about my work in the past couple weeks.

 

See where this is going? I think I’m moving.  Today I realized the victorian has 3 bedrooms, that means…*drum roll please* I GET MY OWN ROOM…my much coveted BARBIE room.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shut up. Don’t laugh at me. I need some place to showcase my collection.

But in exchange I lose my yard and beloved hammock. However, do I really get to enjoy the yard here that much?  Asked as I sit here listening to Lucky barking his head off — as usual.  *sigh*

Maybe I can put the hammock up in one of the other rooms. You know? Turn the room into an inside garden? Paint the ceiling blue with clouds.  Paint grass and tack a picket fence up along the walls.  Lots of plants.  That might be cool.

 

What do you think?  If you were me, ?