Friday, September 14, 2007

The Idiot That Takes Most Of My Money

My landlord is good at making promises. He promised that everything in my new apartment worked perfectly and would be clean on move-in day. The previous tenants were very dirty and had ruined a lot of things in this apartment so this promise was necessary , without it, I would not have signed the lease. I did, however, sign the lease. On move-in day I received a phone call at 5:30a.m. It was my landlord. He kindly explained that the previous tenants were not packed and probably would not be so for another week. Kindly I explained to him that I had a signed contract saying that the apartment was mine as of the current date and that if he did not want me to move them out that perhaps, he should help them get the message. I arrived at my new apartment to find the previous tenants and my landlord furiously packing things into boxes. I proceeded to move my things into the apartment, purposefully getting in the way as much as possible.
Finally the old tenants were out. There were dirty dishes in left in my sink. There was an oxygen tank with the used breathing tubes in my bedroom. There was leftover food in the refrigerator. There was an old wet mop in the kitchen, and a mysterious white powder and muddy footprints everywhere. Needless to say my apartment was not clean. I called my landlord and told him that as he did not higher a professional to clean my apartment that he should pay me to clean the apartment for him. He refused, I cleaned the apartment.
Later in the week I decided to use my oven for the first time. It didn't work. So being the handyman I am, I decided to try and fix it. Upon pulling out the oven, I discovered rat poison and several dead mice. After I finished screaming I called my landlord and told him that I had an emergency and that he needed to come over right away. He came over, and cleaned up the dead mice and promised to buy me a new oven.
I have no new oven. My landlord is an idiot.

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