Moving post-poned

[angelak]

Blarg.
Now, due to complications (wow, this isn't shocking somehow), I will not be moving until Lughnasadh. August 1st is the "new projected" move in date. They weren't going to say anything, except I stopped in to ask a couple of questions. Including about how much it might cost to get use of the parking space in the middle of my Duplex.

$300.

Yes. You heard it. $300 on top of my low rent. So, low rent would go to normal rent fee for a Duplex unit in the area. He is "asking" but says that most likely the rent would go up $300.
Yes, I said $300 like 50 times already.
The square footage, I might add - is about the same as what I have now. Things are just oriented different. Read: my ginormous single bedroom is split into two bedrooms. The bathroom and utility room are separate, instead of one big expanse of space.

Now, considering this parking space (between the units, covered) will be unoccupied by anyone if I don't use it - it seems an awful damned folly shame. But for $300 - I'll take one of the other spots that are not further out.
How fucking ridiculous.
Is it me or is that ridiculous?

I'm not the happiest tenant right now anyway. They said, quote, "you're in no hurry, are you?" regarding the move out date. Well, no - but it sure would be nice to know more than a week in advance if the move out date was going to be post-poned. Here I was almost ready to send out an Evite for my moving party!

I'm a planner sort. This loosey goosey crap... well, it annoys me a little. I know I pay a very low rent fee - but, that's no excuse to be crappy landlords, is it?
Now all of the things they have said they'd do are "maybes."
We'll see if any improvements incur. Apparently they thought they had $8,000 for re-roofing and insulating, and then he realized actually they only had $1,000 after all.
Great. Apparently Jeff's (my ex neighbor) heating bill in the winter was something fierce because there was lousy insulation. I did ask about it because Barb, the old facilities admin mentioned this to me at the bosses "meet the bride" party.

Well, goody gumdrops. I am sure it may not have been the best to mention his ex admin told me this (after all, he did not like her one bit) but... honestly, do I deserve to get shafted, we're talking about my money for utils here when all is said and done. Sometimes it feels like it'd almost be easier to find an apartment downtown for the amount of dumb shit they do.

Seeing as I pay pretty high utils (comparatively to apartment renters and condo owners) and every other little thing including yard work... eh. It DOES add up. The water/sewer is not cheap here. The gas/electricity, the garbage, my lawn mowers, need I list more? Yes, I get that some of these are normal. At the same time... what I pay for a single person for these things is pretty high, even for my measly 3ccfs of water I use per cycle.

I know these are part of getting a good rent rate. But I don't have to like all of it.
I know 20 city employees who would jump at the unit, so I'm not exactly throwing in the towel, I'm just frustrated that the planning has been poor, and that they wanted to charge so much for a measly parking spot that now, no one will ever use and it will sit vacant.

-Angela

Comments

[nobodyberry.livejournal.com]

Aww, that sucks. I'll miss the moving party. :P

And the $300 for a parking space? Total BS. Sounds like someone is just trying to weasle out as much money as possible.

I hope they at least do some of the improvements, though. These people don't sound horribly professional to me.