the countdown to being homeless has commenced
What does a guy have to do to be able to stay in his apartment without the constant fear of being homeless within a month? No? You got nothing? Okay, then WHO does a guy have to do to keep an apartment and not receive letters that are basically kicking him out of it? No, seriously, what am I doing wrong?
Wait, no, I’m not going to go there. It’s not my fault. It’s them! Them idiots who I somehow always end up with as my letting agents! I’m not asking for favours, I’m paying for this. In fact, I’m OVERpaying for this! Oh, and why do they keep doing this to me at the worse possible times? Almost exactly a year ago I was being evicted for no apparent reason only, then, the crisis was averted. Things got sorted after a few days. This time I have no choice in the matter. The landlord has gone and sold the f’ing flat!
I wish I could afford to buy a place of my own so I wouldn’t have to worry about things like this all the time. But I can’t. And there’s a very good chance I never will with the salaries people get these days and the prices of everything going up and the economy plummeting the way it is. I don’t get economics and quite frankly, I don’t care or want to learn about what makes prices go up. I don’t understand the jargon and I don’t want to be a Renaissance Man! I’m no Da Vinci and I’m crap at math, let alone being a polymath.
Am I ranting? That’s very possible! You see I’ve spent the whole day looking up flats on the Internet and talking to letting agents (oh how I hate them right now). The problem is not that there aren’t any properties available, the problem is that they all suck. I’ve only managed to find two flats that might be worth a viewing but the other two that I REALLY wanted had already been let. Gah! Why do they keep them on their sites if they’ve already been let? Why are they toying with me like that? And you know what else I found out today? The letting agency I’ve been with for the past 3 years (almost) is the least helpful one! I managed to get through and arrange viewings with 3 (THREE!!!) other agencies before they even bother dealing with my request of “telling me what else is available”! What is wrong with them?!?! It’s like they don’t want my money!
I am going to stop. Finish my, now cold, tea and see if I can sleep a bit. I don’t want to deal with any of this. I want to invent a time machine and go back a couple of months to the day I was flying to Greece for summer holidays. Yo, Leonardo, you didn’t by any chance come up with such a invention, did you?
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Amie said:AHH! That really, really blows. One thing going for us here in the states is that a lot of them the tennants have some pretty strong rights when it comes to being evicted and how much warning they need, especially for matters like that. (I.E. Not being late on rent, just the building or house changing ownership.) But it still really sucks to be in that position. I’m sure you’ll find something, though.
Commented on September 23rd, 2008 at 11:39 pm
diz said:Boo! Renting sucks (I know, I do it). Moving sucks, too. I hope you find something you love and don’t have to worry about being kicked out the next time.
Commented on September 24th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Sarah said:That sucks big time. I hate renting too, but like you I don;t see myself being able to buy for some years to come, if ever. I am also starting to think I am going to graduate right on the middle of the oncoming recession and be jobless… it would be typical.
Anyway, I wish you luck in your flat hunt. I was tempted to get a flat myself this year, but finances and wanting somewhere close to uni rather than out in the sticks where flats are cheaper made me move back into halls.
Commented on September 25th, 2008 at 2:58 am
Colin Brooks said:Amie :: We have a lot of these rights here too. This only happened because our original contract has expired and now it simply continues as a month to month agreement. As long as I keep paying the rent I can stay and if I want to move I have to give a month’s notice. If the landlord wants to take back the flat for whatever reason they give us 2 months’ notice. Which is what happened, only I was away on holiday and didn’t know about this until Monday which leaves me with a little less than a month to find the new place and move in to it. Things are starting to look up though since I’ve already found something interesting and I may also have the choice of continuing to stay where I am.
diz :: I hope so too! But like I said to Amie above, things are looking up. Either way, I’ll be signing a new contract which means I’ll be sure I’ll have a place for a long enough time.
Sarah :: You’re lucky you have that option. Here we can only stay in halls for a year of our studies and usually only freshers stay there. Unless there are special circumstances when they’d let you stay for longer. Not that I’d ever want to stay in halls.
Sarah said:Halls aren’t too bad. This one is cheap and included all bills so I don’t need to worry about being able to afford to heat my room or anything.
Most of the halls in Liverpool have been sold to the private companies now so it is much easier to stay in halls past your first year. I think there are only 2 or 3 halls that are specifically for first year John Moores students. The rest, about another 15 I can think of off the top of my head are for anyone in any year.
Commented on September 25th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Colin Brooks said:Sarah :: I read your last post on your blog too and I see what you mean. It sounds like a decent (student) place to live. It’s not only the bills. For me the most important thing is to have the environment you need to focus on your studies and it sounds like the halls you moved to are good from that perspective. You can live with a stain on the carpet but having the others around you being loud and generally inconsiderate is not something *I* could live with.