My boyfriend and I just moved from the upstairs apartment to the downstairs apartment in this old, mustard colored house. It was quite an experience. Probably one of the most annoying moves to date.
Most moves from an apartment to another apartment occur on the 1st of the month (or sometimes the last day of the previous month if you get lucky). Apartment moves tend to have to happen FAST (like a 1 day move) so the next tenant coming in can get all moved as well.
Well. That would have been nice.
The tenant that was moving out of the downstairs apartment had pushed her move out date to the 4th- and even that was a "maybe." That gave us a little more time to pack whatever needed to be packed (we didn't have to do too much since we were just going downstairs...) but was also a little frustrating since we were really anxious to just get the move over with. The tenants excuse for moving so slowly was because of her physical condition.
Ok, I do understand that- I have physical pain as well. But... you knew about this move 60 days in advance. Perhaps you should have planned that out a little better...
It really seemed like she STARTED packing on July 1st. *sigh*
She finally recruited her fiance to come help her.
For a few days there was a truck in the driveway being loaded ever so slowly. I had offered to help him move her couch because she isn't unable to lift anything over "15 lbs." (Our apartments were connected by a door that had to be removed for the couch to be able to get out of the house. Basically our front door had to be used quite frequently for this move).
Long story short(er), the day that our landlady told us we could expect to start moving turned out to be such a wasted day.
We had been notified that the tenant would be out by 9AM. We heard our landlady arrive, and then we received a text message. The time had changed to NOON. Noon came and went. Next we hear that it will be 4PM. We heard the landlady show up again (mind you she lives out of the city so she has to travel a ways to come here; she needed to do the final inspection). Another message. 6PM.
Another message.
9PM.
Finally there was a phone call. We were told that the tenant technically has no right to be in the apartment after midnight, and that she could force them out by then. By that time we had wasted our whole day waiting to move that we were just sick of the whole thing. We told her that the tenant can take whatever other time she needs to get out- we just want to get this over with.
The landlady had a back and forth with the tenant. Being accused of not being considerate of her condition among other things. Again- she knew 60 days in advance this was to happen.
Finally.
10:30AM the next morning- we get a text. The tenant is finally out and has left the premises. We are free to start moving. *DANCE PARTY*
It came to our immediate attention that the carpets have been abused by her dog (who she had for the entirety of her stay- almost 5 years). Needless to say it smelled like piss and shit to a very high degree.
The frebreez the tenant had used to mask the smell had dissipated quickly.
She should not have gotten her whole deposit back. (We are in the process of scheduling a professional cleaning, and then if need be, replacement of the carpet).
Not only that, but the tenant had left a lot of belongings that she didn't warn us about (6 boxes of Nutrisystem that were all expired!!). There were a few things she had left that we agreed on (which was nice of her). But to this day, we're still trying to remove all the junk she left. We're pretty much through, but there is one large piece of furniture that needs to go immediately. We cannot properly set up our living room with it in there. It is also too big for the two of us to haul outside.
It probably doesn't sound like much to you readers, but after going through that... I have not wanted a house of our own so badly. And yes, I realize that comes with a whole new set of challenges.
We're all glad this particular tenant is gone. Without going into more of a story about her, it was simply her time to move on.
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Which leads us to my update!
We're basically done organizing. We just have two more rooms to take care of- the odds and ends basically.
I plan on making a new video soon- focusing more on personal stuff rather than taking video of places I visit (which of course, if I go anywhere again soon, I will record it). I just feel that the real purpose of the channel on YouTube I have is to get better at speaking, talking about being introverted and other issues I deal with. I think that will help others out there to be able to relate and hopefully find some inspiration to grow and make changes for themselves.
I plan on doing a few different fun things as well. I'd like to make some workout videos and/or document weight loss etc..
Then add in My Adventures, My personal stuff... etc etc.. it's all in review right now. We'll see how it will all end up.
Alright! Well, thanks for reading everybody. Congrats if you decided to read all the way through, I appreciate it.
As of now I still feel like I'm writing to nobody. Or just myself. But I hope to reach out to those who are looking for what I have to offer.
Bye for now!!
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