News on me...

[Wolf_22]

Boy was today a headache.

I was supposed to meet someone for an interview at 1. I decided to wake up at 7:00 am, get dressed and head out towards the area to drive by it so that I would know where it is. The place I was supposed to have this interview at was "Plainfield, IN". Come to find out at around 11 o'clock that it was in my town of Terre Haute! WHAT A FOWL UP! I made it on time despite though, and even though I think I probably won't get the job, she did say that I will be hearing from her. What do you think? Do you think that means anything, or is it just another one of those interviewing statements to let by-gones be by-gones...?

Besides that, I'm in the process of trying to get out of my landlord's lease agreement. I've found a ten times better apartment CLOSER to school for the SAME PRICE I'm paying now, and due to the lease, can't move in until May! SO, I've told the "manager" of my landlord's office that I'm wanting to talk to my landlord. You see, I told that manager that I was wanting to break the lease and that I would even give my landlord the damage deposite if he would let me validly break this lease with no repurcussions, but she said I couldn't due to they're policy. So after sitting on this all day and thinking about what she said, I decided to call back to the office and ask for my landlord when I got back from my interview:

***bring bring bring***

"Hello?" she says...

"Hi, it's me again. I was wondering if I may be able to talk to John sometime. Is he around?"

"He's not in now... Is there something I can tell him?" she said.

"No, just tell him that I need to talk to him sometime."

"I've already told him what you told me this morning and he said the same thing I did..."

"Well, thats okay, but I still want to talk to him. Could you tell him to call me when he's in the office tomorrow?" replied I.

"Sure. What am I here for anyways... I mean, I'm only the manager... But yeah, I'll let him know your wanting to talk to him. He doesn't even understand why your wanting to move out though..." she said.

"Well, to start off with, the cops have been called 2 times (both on the same day), and marijuanna smoke was filling up my closet space from the adjacent neighbors. Also, there is a lot more things to it too, so if you wouldn't mind, I would just like to talk to him. Okay?" I said starting to get angry that she's putting me through this hassel JUST to talk to my landlord.

"Sure, I'll tell him but just so you know, those neighbors have been evicted and he still doesn't understand how that smoke could be getting into your closet..." she said.

***click***

After all of that, I left it be. All I want to do is get the hell outta here. This other apartment is sooo much better than this one I'm in. It has it's own bathtub, thermostat (THAT ISN'T SHARED!), and also has a bigger kitchen, living room, and walk-in closet! If it wasn't for that dern lease, I would be moving in there in about 2 weeks. Makes me sooo mad. If I break the lease, I'll most likely get sued for whatever is left for rent in that leasing period as well as forfeiting my damage deposite. Hell, that damage deposite is probably lost anyways just because he's going to take it. Life can be so unfair sometimes. This is getting me down!

Sorry for blabbin but what all do you guys think? Do you think I should just drop it and miss this great chance to get a great apartment, or do you think I should just wait and see what comes down the pike when my lease runs out? I feel like this apartment is one in a thousand around here which is why I'm so anal about getting this...

[grumpy_b05]

Hi Wolf!

I think you should wait and talk with your landlord. If the manager actually tells him you are wanting to talk with him. If youstill find him telling you no, then is this new apartment worth bailing on the old? It sounds like it is, I hope things work out for you. I was in the same situation before, and I bailed. I had six months left on the lease and ended up paying $1200 it sucked, but was soooooooooo worth it!

Hugs & Laughter
GRUMPY

[Wolf_22]

Well, it's like this Grumpy... My grandmother is my main source of income besides my job. She's paying for this apt. as well as school. Needless to say, my grandmother is something very special and at times someone I feel I don't deserve due to how nice and sacrificial she is. Personally, I do think it's worth it. I think it's WAYYYY WORTH IT, however I feel that most of the decision is up to my grandmother since she's the one that is paying my way like this. Please don't let this make you think I'm a spoiled guy because I do work hard for everything I do. I even try to make some of the payments when I can, it's just that this apartment that I've found seems like it's everything this apt that I'm in now isn't.

Why wouldn't my landlord accept my deal? I see it as being a good deal given everything is the way it was when I first moved in. There is a drawer handle that needs to be glued back onto where it first was as it's broken, however a little wood glue and it's like new. I see my landlord being a jerk and saying no, and me missing this awesome place and not ever having the chance to get it again. The other landlord of the other place has already told me that she has someone that is wanting that place now; so it's only a matter of time before I miss it. I am thankful that I have a roof over my head and all that, it's just like this:

Wouldn't you want your food to taste good and be healthy instead of just one or the other?

[Kathy Z]

When situations like this arise in my life and I'm wanting something real bad but it seems impossible (for me) to obtain......I try my best to pray to God and ask for His will to be done in the situation. That way, I know I can't go wrong. He can do what I can't. Hope it all works out for you.

[Wolf_22]

Thanks Kathy.

[Wolf_22]

Wish me luck everyone... My landlord told me to simply find someone else for the lease (he said he would make a short-term lease for them and let me skedaddle), so thats what I'm going to do.

Off to the bulletin boards around campus...

[Wolf_22]

Well, I don't think I'll ever find anyone to rent this damnable place out. Personally, I wouldn't blame anyone for not wanting this place too. Last night at around 11:30PM the cops had to make yet ANOTHER trip out here to get the idiot that lives next door to turn his music off (yes, it was loud because I was feeling vibrations in my bed and walls from it). SO, when they got to this apartment building, the music shut off of course. But guess what happened when they left! Yep, thats right... The party must go on!

So about 4:00AM, they then decide to start making a bunch of "thumps" and "stomps" in they're place. Me being the person who can't sleep well in times such as this decided to get up, go into my bathroom, and listen into the neighbors room to see if I could tell what all was happening. Well, to make a long story short, the guy and gal got into an argument about something. Not sure what, but I know that the women kept screaming and yelling how she hated him and how she was going to kill him for hitting her in the face. The guy kept telling her to settle down and that he didn't hit her. The women was hysterical though wether he did anything or not...

Anyway, I think I'm screwed on all this. I can't live here while all this crap is going on. I know for a fact that I can't go through this when school starts back up because I'm taking a heavy load this next semester, and I'm really going to have to struggle with it to keep up, and with crap like this going on almost everynight, it's not going to go down easily. I called my grandmother last night and informed her that I felt I had more than enough proper grounds to break the lease under and be strong in court if he (Landlord) decided to sue. I've placed an add in the local News Channel's website as well as place ads all over campus. I've even reserved an ad in the school newspaper for when the school starts back up again. So far, I've had 1 person check the place out and she doesn't even appear to be interested either.

[shutterbug]

hang in there...

[Wolf_22]

I'm tryin' shutter. Last night a bunch of crap happened as again. The cops came by after they decided that M&M and Master P had to go to bed at 11:30PM. Of course, they didn't realize that the cops meant for all night. They just thought they meant WHILE they were there... SO, wouldn't you know it... The music came on again after they left.

*** shakes head in frustration ***

They decided to turn it down to a hapitable level at around 12:30AM. Then at about 3:30AM they decided to have a fight. Yeah, the women was pretty crazy. I placed my ear up against the wall once it sounded like they were having a boxing match and I was able to discern most of the arguments contents...

You f'n mother f'er! I hate you! I f'n hate you! I will kill you! I hope you f'n die! Look at my face you b@$|~@rD! Look at it!

After I listened for awhile, I felt almost compelled to call the cops AGAIN. Well, I said to hell with it and went to bed. She kept yelling at him for hitting her followed by him denying it. She was hysterical though whatever happened. I wanted to call the cops, but since they had already been there, I wasn't really sure if I should or not. I stayed awake for awhile after that thinking about it all. I felt guilty, but also not because they both have severe issues and both do drugs from what I hear. I was really chaotic though there for awhile.

I DO have someone else comming in tomorrow though to check the place out. I'm going to do whatever it takes to get out of here too. I figure since I'm in school, about to graduate, and have found a better place than this after I've made attempts to change this place's issues, that I shouldn't feel guilty about getting someone else to take over the place un-informed about the neighbors. I am guilty of lying to them about how horrible they are, but if the landlord/manager people say that they have evicted them, then why should I really feel bad about it? They're supposedly going to be gone before too long anyways.

[shutterbug]

What about putting a blank tape into a stereo and recording all the noise every night...then taking that to the cops....

Or drill a hole through the wall and video tape their fights....hahaha

No seriously....just keep calling the cops and complaining. I promise...they will get tired of coming out there eventually and will start writing out tickets with fines.

[historyteach]

Wolf;
I would call the cops every time. With that record, you won't have any problem with wanting to break the lease, I would think. Don't know, cuz I'm not a lawyer, but, it would seem as if you have certain rights to quiet at 3 AM.
Wishing you well...
Shalom!

[Wolf_22]

Shutter, I don't think drilling a hole in the wall would really be a very good solution of reconaisance. I was thinking more in terms of an x-ray camera of sorts...

I think I will call the cops from now on.

[shutterbug]

Naw....if you drill the hole near the floor then you can add "mice infestation" to your petition to have your lease dropped.

[Wolf_22]

lmao... I totally spat out my milk on that one...

[shutterbug]

heehee

[Wolf_22]

I had to call the cops again. This time it was for the stereo being played at midnight that was shaking my walls. lol. I think that was the last straw. I discussed this all with my grandmother, and she thinks that with all the numerous calls to the cops topped off with a noterized letter to the landlord stating that basically we've had enough, that we should be able to hold up in court should he choose to sue us or whatever. I'm tired of thinking and worrying myself over this. Hell, sometimes I come home half way scared thinking that someone is going to be hiding in my closet or something. I mean, don't get me wrong, durring the day, I hardly have any issues. Its just that at night, it's always bad around here for some reason.

[Wolf_22]

WOOT! Found someone that wants the place... Kid you not! It was the same person that looked at it the first time too! Scary thing is that I'm not going to wind up with the original place, but a place that is a little more expensive. It kinda has me worried a little bit too because it wasn't what I originally expected. My grandmother is a bit reserved about all this because of this unexpected twist, but I told her that it is a 3 bedroom place that is being rented out as a 3 bedroom place. I haven't looked at it, but the landlord assured me that it was something she knows I will like. Never the less though, I told her that I wanted to look at it regardless, and she understood.

My grandmother wants me to come up with the total amount (ball park figure mainly) of all the expenses I'll be having in the upcomming days ahead. It's going to get a bit hairy at first I think, but if I come out with my head above the water like I think I will, it's going to be such a better life. I'm just sooo stressed about all this though. I mean, I didn't really have the urge to get this OTHER place, but since it's being rented out for a good price, wouldn't you think it is a good deal? I mean, I know thats a hard question for you to answer, but if you saw this place, you'd like it too, and if it's anything like the bottom place that I was originally supposed to get, then it HAS to be worth all this effort.

They just don't know what it's like going through school. All the pressure of living on your own, getting good grades in college, being single, and not really having that much money. My place now is 325+elec, and it comes complete with drywall flaking off, rude and obnoxious (not to mention addicted) neighbors, shady landlord, and "shared" thermostat. This new place that I will be getting is 400+elec, with it's own thermos, 3 BR's, and whatever else I have yet to see when I go over there. The landlord of this new place has told me that she will get ahold of me next weekend. I told the person that will be taking my place over to get ahold of me sometime tomorrow around 3PM so that I would be able to consult my landlord now about everything.

Wish me luck guys. I could use some.

[shutterbug]

Wow! That's so super great. I'm so happy for you. I don't think you are doing wrong by looking into this other place....sounds like a nice setup. I hope it all works out for you the way you want it. At least you will not have to deal with the criminals anymore!

Bestest of luck!

[Wolf_22]

Thanks Shutter! I hope it all goes good too. I'll have more on it tomorrow.

[Wolf_22]

Some bad news... The person bailed on me. She said she found a place to stay at where it was free (a friends house). I told her that I didn't blame her, and I don't. I would've done it too probably if it were a close friend.

It looks like I'm going to have to break the lease. This is scaring my grandmother and I both for I think I'm finally reaching the point to where my expenses are getting to be too much. It's not that I spend too much, and it's not that I try to sap my grandmothers pockets... It's just that the road of going to college when your parents are both rogue alchoholics is a very difficult one. Since I don't communicate with my parents, it leaves me strapped for cash since I can't fill out a FAFSA form for entitlement of student loans and grants. You see, the "shpeal" with going to college (at least over here in Indiana) is that you have to fill something out called a "FAFSA" form, and what it is is basically an entitlement to allow you (the student) to be eligible for grants, loans, and whatever else the goverment gives or loans students. Since I have to be 24 years old before I can fill one of these out on my own, I'm screwed with student loans of any type since I'm 22. With the stress of someone playing they're dern music at 12:30AM, and drug selling going on, it's paying stress for my grandmother and I since we're going to be moving into a better residence that runs 400 dollars a month. I really just don't know how this is all going to work out. I'm seriously stressin' out over this.

[shutterbug]

Wolf....I filled out 7 of those FASFA forms over my college career. They were always a headache, but I couldn't have gone to college any other way. My parents were divorced and my dad had full custody so I had to get his tax stuff every year and he always waited til the last minute or past deadline.

In your case...I would definetly try talking to some more peeps in your financial aid department or call the national hotline for FASFA, which you could probably ask your financial aid counselor for or look for it on the form itself. I say this b/c you might only need to prove that your grandmother has been supporting you and you parents are out of the picture...then maybe all they would require would be your grandmothers tax income info.

If that doesn't work...I know there is another way. My old rooom mate (and best friend) was able to go through some kind of process at our university to declare her independence from her parents and was able to do the FASFA from her income only.

I know there's a way to do it...you just have to do a little work to figure it out. It would definetly be worth it for you b/c if you only use your income then I would bet my left foot that you would get at least one significant grant (if you apply fairly early after Jan. 1, 2006). The times when my dad got his taxes done early and I was able to get my FASFA off in time....I got grants...couple thousand a year if I remember right. I paid my rent and everything with the grants and loans I got from the federal government while in school.

Oh...and now days it's even easier to apply b/c you can do it over the Internet. Ask your financial aid department for the web address and you can do some researching about it all on your own, if they are clueless

Anyway....try not to stress....it's all bound to work out somehow. Let me know if I can help in any other way.

Hugs,
Jenna

[Wolf_22]

Thanks Jenna. I'll keep your info in mind. I'm going to try and do something about all that again because although I have it pretty good compared to most, I've seen people who have it great and still get grants and stuff like that.

I need to get this apt. crap taken care of first before I can proceed with other things. It's looking as if I'm going to get into a legal battle with my landlord over all this. I had to contact a lawyer by the way, and so far it's not really looking like it's on my side of the bridge because the police (according to what the desk clerk or whatever told me) don't log phone calls. Isn't that crap!? I walked in there today and asked them because my lawyer's secretary or whatever asked me to get whatever I could from the cops especially the phone logs, and it turns out that they don't log that.

In that stead, I'm going to have to consult with the lawyer with only my pictures of my horrible bathroom and only my word. Not good. The secretary said that she thinks the lawyer is going to write a letter to the LL and go from there. To think that I've went out of my way to offer this LL 400 dollars (75 dollars above the original damage deposit price) to get out of there, and he wouldn't even take that. All I want is to get out of there, and I'm having thoughts that this lawyer of mine isn't going to be able to do anything with me merely informing him of the marijuana smoke seeping through my closet and various "un-logged" phone calls to the police without charges being filled.

*fingers crossed and praying*

[shutterbug]

because the police (according to what the desk clerk or whatever told me) don't log phone calls. Isn't that crap!? I walked in there today and asked them because my lawyer's secretary or whatever asked me to get whatever I could from the cops especially the phone logs, and it turns out that they don't log that.

Sounds like they are jerking you around! Do you live in a small, rural town or a metro? If it's a metro then every call that comes into the police department is automatically recorded. Even when officers call out....they are recorded. I'm a reporter...remember. And now I'm a police reporter and at my old newspaper town....if the cops wanted to talk to reporters, but didn't want anyone to know who talked then they would have to call the paper from an outside line somewhere for this same reason. And that was in a pretty small town. Even now...at my current paper, in an even smaller town, all the 911 calls are recorded. And everyday...I go down to dispatch and read the dispatch log. It's public record too! But even newspapers have to push for things like that to be shown b/c police dispatch centers are usually so busy that they don't want to have to mess with anything they don't have to.

I would suggest calling your local newspaper and asking who covers the police and crime beat. They should know if noise disturbances are entered into the log at that police department or not. If they don't know then call the police chief and ask him. If he says he doesn't know...then ask which officers responded to the noise complaints. There should at least be a log of the officers who responded or who were dispatched to that location. If you get names then ask how you can speak to the individual officers and get statements from them.

Hey...while your at it....when you call the newspaper reporter fill them in "briefly" on your situation and ask if they would possibly do a story on it? Tell them that you would even be willing to e-mail your side of the story to them (takes less time to write the story on their part that way).

Let me know if none of that helps and I will try to think of something else for you to try.

[Wolf_22]

Well, I finally moved. Yep, it's actually a 4 BR apt.! It's sooo wonderful. I love it to death. Bad thing is that I met with the attourney yesterday, and it doesn't look very good.

He basically said that since I didn't write letters and read the lease very well, that I'm basically screwed. All I'm able to do now is "TRY" to get him not to sue me. Life isn't fair, and it's BS that this is going down the way it is because I'm not at fault with this. Anyone in my shoes would've moved out a long time ago if they were me. I told my grandmother about all this and about all the stuff that was said in the attourney's office, and she said that no matter what happens, we're going to give them a fight.

I guess thats all we can do too. I've learned to hate the manager person that is over there at the LL's office too. She's a BIT$%. When I went in yesterday to turn in a little heater that I had of theirs, she said out loud in front of everyone that "she needed a forwarding address so that they're lawyer had someone to send stuff..."

I guess I'm screwed. I guess if I am able to, I can pay off as much as I possibly can with my tax return, but thats only if I don't get sued for more than 1200 dollars. If it's more than that, I'm not sure what I'm going to do. Life just isn't fair, and if I were a God, I wouldn't have made it like that... Why should it be like that?

[bikewench]

Hey Casey....

Yeah...
life ain't fair at times...
and people can be downright ugly and hurtful for no reason other than to spread their yuck around...

The really... really... sad part is when we give people like that our power by letting them engage our time.. mind.. lives...

All we can do is what we know is right.
And the rest .. we have to leave up to the HP person.. ya know..??

I know how hard it is to stand by and let someone puke on you and the people you love...
but.. bide your time Casey.. ;o)
step back and watch it unfold... and do what you can...

I jus luvs your Gram..

I told my grandmother about all this and about all the stuff that was said in the attourney's office, and she said that no matter what happens, we're going to give them a fight.

hehehehe...

YOU GO GURL...!!!