BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...

Subject: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 07 Apr 12 - 02:42 PM

Well, back in January, as some of you know, my pub closed.

Then, my car died. I didn't complain here because it was my fault for not sliding some oil to her when she needed it (musical reference alert). Yes, I actually killed a corolla through neglect.

Then our landlady told us to declutter or be evicted, so we did.

But, she's evicting us anyway. We need a place by the end of the month. Single parent, twin teenagers just finishing their junior (3rd) year of high school, and 2 small cats. Just as well I don't believe in curses.

Are we having fun yet?

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 07 Apr 12 - 02:43 PM

Wow. Every single link worked the first time around. I am enjoying this thing they call manic.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Apr 12 - 05:23 PM

Well, at least you won't blame God for it...(which is an odd thing that some people do when things don't go as well as they had hoped.)

I do hope you find some speedy solutions to your difficulties, Mrrzy. You are facing major challenges, that is for sure. You're in the southern USA somewhere, aren't you?

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: gnu
Date: 07 Apr 12 - 05:50 PM

Gee. I hope things work out okay.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Apr 12 - 06:29 PM

((((Mrr)))

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 07 Apr 12 - 06:38 PM

Hugs from me, too -- alas, all I can offer right now other than good thoughts and lots of white light.

Going through my own trials. (See Curmudgeon thread.)

Builds character, doesn't it? Geez, I don't know about you, but I thought I was enough of a character to start out with.

Seriously, I wish you all the best. And may it work out better than your wildest dreams.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 07 Apr 12 - 07:46 PM

Thanks, I'm kind of looking forward to some of this... but then again, I'm kind of manic right now so I might enjoy anything, sez I, not tempting fate.

As long as the boys are OK we'll be fine.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Apr 12 - 07:52 PM

Sorry, Mrrzy, but we just got our house back...

Keep us posted...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Maryrrf
Date: 07 Apr 12 - 08:09 PM

The end of the month - that doesn't give you much time. Here's hoping you'll end up in a much better dwelling.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 07 Apr 12 - 10:19 PM

I know people with young children who found an apartment in PA through Craig's List, but I imagine you've already looked there.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Charley Noble
Date: 08 Apr 12 - 09:19 AM

Mrrzy-

My best offer is to put this all together as another home-wrecked blues. However, gallows humor may not be what you need more of just now. Maybe after you're resettled.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 08 Apr 12 - 09:24 PM

Charley, go right ahead!

I may be getting a Nissan Sentra...

I may be finding an apt on craigslist - hey, I got a date, that was something!

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: GUEST,TIA
Date: 09 Apr 12 - 01:00 AM

Not being creepy...
What do you need?
I have trouble staying signed in, but PM member TIA.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Charley Noble
Date: 09 Apr 12 - 09:53 AM

Mrrzy-

Lou and Peter Barryman had a nice song about living in one's car. Is that your idea for the Nissan Sentra? Charlie King composed a song called "Self-Storage," as another alternative housing song.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 10 Apr 12 - 01:39 PM

Movin day, movin day
Pick your (somethings) off the floor
(something something) going out the door
Cause it's movin day
Pack up all your grips and get away
If you spent every cent you can live out in a tent
It's mooooooovin day.

What about taking a very short lease on a small apartment, 6 months, moving now, and using those 6 months to find something better?

The car I looked at failed the mechanic's audition. The other one I was looking at got sold while I was looking at the one that flunked.

Life goes on, it happens every day
So 'preciate what you got before it's taken away
Life will hit you when you're unprepared
So be grateful and take all that you can while you're there
Take that frown off your head
You're a long time dead (?)
Life goes on and on and on

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Apr 12 - 02:47 PM

Yeah, well, on the other hand, you might only be "dead" for a second or two. All we ever know consciously is being alive, and that might continue after what we call "death". We won't know till we get there.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: fat B****rd
Date: 14 Apr 12 - 03:26 PM

I hope things have got better for you, Mrrzy.
Please update.
ATB from Charlie fB

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: GUEST,999
Date: 14 Apr 12 - 03:33 PM

Ditto fB.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: gnu
Date: 14 Apr 12 - 06:25 PM

Me too.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Apr 12 - 11:50 PM

And, me.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 15 Apr 12 - 12:30 PM

I'm in the "Waiting for an Update Club," too.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Charley Noble
Date: 15 Apr 12 - 01:02 PM

One would think that Mrrzy could at least make it to an internet cafe, if they still exist. Meanwhile there are always these verses from The Pity the Downtrodden Landlord Songbook to muse over:

Chorus:

I'm bound for that beautiful city,
My Lord has prepared for His own;
Where all the redeemed of all ages
Sing "glory" around the white throne;
Sometimes I grow homesick for heaven,
And the glories I there shall behold:
What a joy that will be when my Savior I see,
In that beautiful city of gold.

We'll never pay rent for our mansion,
The taxes will never come due;
Our garments will never grow threadbare,
But always be fadeless and new;
We'll never be hungry nor thirsty,
Nor languish in poverty there,
For all the rich bounties of heaven
His sanctified children will share.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 15 Apr 12 - 03:03 PM

sadly mrrzy i dont think you believe the above so i will just say best wishes.
pete

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 15 Apr 12 - 04:17 PM

Mrrzy, so sorry about your problems. May you soon find good solutions and be secure and happy once more. Meilleurs voeux! Eliza xx

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: maeve
Date: 15 Apr 12 - 04:21 PM

Sometimes our daily challenges keep us from being able to make contact. Mrrzy knows we'll be hoping for a good solution to the current challenges and when it's convenient will check in.

Thinking of you and your family, Mrrzy!

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: gnu
Date: 15 Apr 12 - 06:42 PM

Well said, m.

Keeping you and yours in my Ts&Ps.

g

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Apr 12 - 06:47 PM

That's what I was thinking, too, maeve. In the midst of moving, esp. with kids and in dire straits, getting to any kind of internet access is probably way down on the list of priorities.

I hope she has found some accommodation.

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 15 Apr 12 - 07:37 PM

I hope so, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 16 Apr 12 - 09:53 AM

Aargh. Thanks, and yes, I am bad at doing anything other than car- and apt-shop when i do get online...

So, my month's notice is halfway over, no sign of an apt yet, and I am also still looking for a lawyer as I don't think you can really evict peopple for things that were true when you renewed the lease. On verra.

And I am still in a rental car, which I do NOT plan on living in!

I spate in me fist and I picked up me stick
And up the coach road like a deer I did trip
I cared not for bailiff, landlord, or Old Nick
And I sang like the lark in the morning...

(Not yet true but a lovely verse...)

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: maeve
Date: 16 Apr 12 - 10:45 AM

Thanks for taking time to check in, Mrrzy. You'll sort it all out!

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: fat B****rd
Date: 16 Apr 12 - 11:04 AM

Like what Maeve said.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Charley Noble
Date: 16 Apr 12 - 11:16 AM

And to entertain folks until Mrrzy's next update:


Words and music by Guy Clark
© 1975 BMG Music
Recorded on Old No. 1, SH-C-1030

La Freeway

Pack up all your dishes,
Make note of all good wishes,
Say good-bye to the landlord for me,
Son-of-a-bitches always bore me;
Throw out them LA papers,
Moldy bags of vanilla wafers,
Adios to all this concrete,
Gonna get me some dirt road back street.

Chorus:

If I can just get off of this LA Freeway,
Without gettin' killed or caught,
I'll be down the road in a cloud of smoke
To some land I ain't bought, bought, bought!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 16 Apr 12 - 05:08 PM

Looking for a lawyer? Isn't there a not-for-profit housing agency in your region? Something like that?

I don't mean a body that rents housing, I mean an agency that keeps an eye on landlords and gives advice.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 16 Apr 12 - 08:05 PM

I'm still full of hope that you will find something suitable and affordable.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 17 Apr 12 - 01:37 PM

Me too... and I still have two whole weeks.

Trying to move within a college town in April is kinda like something else that's futile that I can't think of right now. Analogies welcome.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Apr 12 - 01:42 PM

Yikes is there a way she could give you till June at which point some of the student apartments might be freeing up? Hoping this turns out for the best - it can't be good living in a place where the landlady is hostile.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: fat B****rd
Date: 17 Apr 12 - 03:22 PM

"Spitting on a fish" Mrrzy. Good analogy for futility from my old friend David Atkins.
In the meantimne all the very best of luck to you.
Charlie.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Apr 12 - 04:53 PM

We, our three kids, six cats, one dog, and two birds lived in a motel room for three months as we waited for the place we were going to rent to become vacant/lease ran out. It was an adventure, but doable. Maybe it would work for you as a stop-gap measure?

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 17 Apr 12 - 06:11 PM

there is a possible 6-months lease on a small apt available now BUT I have finally actually gotten to talk to a lawyer and she can't evict me just by sending me a letter, she has to take me to court, and until then there is really nothing she can do if I stay here... so I am worrying more now about the car, and will continue to fight the eviction. If we can stay another year, hostile landlord or not, the boys will graduate and I can go live with my mom who will need me by then, is the plan.

I am relieved about the court thing - since she has filed no papers, I have more time than I thought. I was under the impression that she could just show up with bailiffs and they would toss all my furniture out into the street...

So back to trying to buy a car!

I think the analogy I was not thinking of was Herding cats. But spitting on a fish sounds about right too!

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: GUEST,999
Date: 17 Apr 12 - 06:18 PM

It's better news than you had, Mrrzy. I'm happy for you and your boys.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: mg
Date: 17 Apr 12 - 06:29 PM

I would consider the six month lease...it is hard to live in a hostile place...and if she is somewhat prosperous she might take the court option..more hassles...but your choice of course...mg

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 17 Apr 12 - 10:47 PM

Well. A reprieve. Good. I thought at the beginning it sounded like very short notice to evict you, but I don't know much about these laws here, let alone elsewhere.

Also, I wondered if she had told you to declutter because she knew she was going to try to get you out and was afraid you would be one of those tenants who left a lot of stuff behind for her to deal with.

Whatever paths you choose, I hope you will keep us informed.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: GUEST,999
Date: 17 Apr 12 - 10:53 PM

I like that ChanteyLass gal.


Just sayin'.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 18 Apr 12 - 08:46 PM

Yeah, me too.

I think she is gearing up to sell it.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Apr 12 - 10:04 AM

Glad to hear you can stay put. Moving is expensive as well as stressful. I wonder if you might negotiate some cash out of her if she really wants you out.
Has your lawyer advised her of your plans. Just avoid a confrontation on the first of the month.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 19 Apr 12 - 09:03 PM

Sounds like good advice.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Bobert
Date: 19 Apr 12 - 09:28 PM

In most states an eviction takes 4 to 6 months...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: gnu
Date: 20 Apr 12 - 05:00 PM

Good news!

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Apr 12 - 08:13 PM

And if it's a Dachshund you're trying to evict, it can take even longer. They can increase their specific gravity by 800% at will!!! This happens, for instance, when you're trying to make them go outside...and it's raining.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Apr 12 - 03:08 PM

Wish I could do that!

Yes, I feel much better, anybody nearby want to take a road trip and visit me?