not happy

[lincolnkw]

I got a phone call from my landlady tonight. It seems as though the last three checks my roommate has sent in have bounced. Luckily we pay our rent seperately, but it's still of the bad. My landlady has called her, left messages, slipped notes under the door, none of which I have been told about until this phone call. And, apparently, none of which she has responded to. It's a smallish privately owned complex. She just wants the rent paid up, luckily she likes me loads and doesn't want to kick us out. If my roommate goes, she won't miss her too much. I will, I could afford the rent on this place for maybe two months. And the couch and dinette set are hers. And she's really nice. We also work together so it makes it even more annoying.

So. The rommate is not home right now, she's probably out partying. Again. I will be waking her up in the morning and making her ass take me to the bank so we can get a Cashiers Check so I can send off the rent and know it will be safe. Then we will be sitting down and having a conversation. She has never really lived in an apartment before. I have. She does not know what steps can be taken when someone does not pay their rent. I do. If it's your parents, they bitch and moan. If it's a complex they start eviction proceedings after 15 days. She will be in fear by the time I am done talking to her.

I am so not appreciative of the fact that she has known, for three months, that this is a problem. I found out tonight.



On a happier note, bachelor_girl The CD came today! It is truly of the wonderful. I'm part way through it and am loving every song.

Comments

[lincolnkw.livejournal.com]

They should, the roommate is young, I think it'll work out fine. May take a while, but the landlady will be happy with anything at this point.

*hugs back*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_dragon_/]

Dude, that roommate thing sucks. I hope it all works out.

[lincolnkw.livejournal.com]

I like having roommates, it's cheaper and there's usualy someone to do something with.

I don't like roommates becasue sometimes they are messy or iconsiderate and things likethis.

Pros and cons.

feh.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_dragon_/]

Yeah. The thing happening with your roommate right now still sucks, though. Some people don't understand about those kinds of things. I'm not even out on my own yet, and am in fact a few years away from it, but even I know that not paying rent like that is and/or can be egregious mistake.

[canadiankracka.livejournal.com]

Wow...your roommate sounds almost as good as mine. K isn't bad with money (because I have her bank acct # and take the $ out once a month) but she does absolutely nothing around the apt. Buy groceries, do dishes, sweep, clean HER CAT's litter box but for once a week, etc.

Maybe you and I should live together? lol

[lincolnkw.livejournal.com]

hee. If only you weren't farther north than I already am.

I've sorta been curious about why she's been cleaning so much, keeping things neat, being friendlier than normal, offering to get me lunch at work. Now I know why.

[xoverau.livejournal.com]

Eeeesh! Beat her! *hands you roommate-beating stick*

[bachelor-girl.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm glad it got there okay!

::grins::

As you already know, I love it. :-)

[stormwynd.livejournal.com]

Yerg, that's just about my worst roommate nightmare. At least your landlady (a) realizes that it's your roommate and not you, and (b) likes you, so at least she's willing to talk to you first before going straight to the nasty-but-legal eviction stuff.

[lincolnkw.livejournal.com]

Weirdly, I don't think she WANTS to do the nasty legal stuff, she'd rather talk it out and be bice about it. I sometimes don't think she's cut out to be a landlady, she's just too sweet sometimes.

Lord, knows I'd have never let it go this far.

[stormwynd.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean about being too nice to be a landlady. When I was growing up, my parents bought a house as a source of rental income, only to discover that neither of them had it in them to be mean and nasty when the situation called for it. IIRC, one of the tenants once went 9 months without paying rent before finally getting the boot.