#rental hell

It's not like it's some gorgeous new apartment either. Doesn't have a full oven, no washer dryer in unit, nothing fancy but you gotta make 42k a year to rent it? Bullshit

Found this on Twitter but sharing here because oh my god this sounds like the worst house to live in

The patronizing tone! The fact that it encapsulates everything I hate about uwu ~~queer community uwu -ness! The fake walls! The fact that you can’t have anything that requires storage! NO DOOR! IT IS A SHOWER CURTAIN!

We ArE tHe CrEaTuRe CoLlEcTiVe ~~~ uwu

Dude had a massive apartment on a garbage salary

Partner and I spend almost 3k a month on shitty box

Anyway I am in a motel for a few days. I am Routines Georg about many things, including my sleeping situation and prepping at night for getting out the door in the morning, and I'm not going to have a chance to get all the way through the learning curve of a new place. I expect everything is going to kind of suck this week.

I made a pot of rice and pre-chopped vegetables so I can heat up bowls of that with sesame oil and spices and nuts. I've got my next two lunches pre-portioned and ready to put in my backpack. I've got two raincoats and two pairs of shoes because it's expected to be rainy and I moderately hate it when I have to put on a pair of shoes that's already wet. I've got a housemate's mini air purifier running so I can eventually unmask in here.

The first email was almost six months ago now, giving advance warning that the rent would be going up (by a hefty amount). In April, they said. I wrote back expressing my disappointment with this and suggesting that they might want to improve the maintenance of the property in exchange for this rental increase...and that was the last I heard, for almost six months. No new contract was issued. April came and went.

Then yesterday I received an automated email from an online document repository containing, quite literally, nothing more than a link. No text, just the link. In other words, functionally indistinguishable from a phishing attack. I could see, however, that it had been issued by the estate agent via an online depository they've used before, so decided that this was a trusted source and clicked on the link, which took me to a revised tenancy contract (containing more than one inconsistency) which, I can only assume, they wish me to sign.

I can only assume that, because there was no actual correspondence saying anything of the sort. For all I know, they just want me to proof-read it to pick up on the afore-mentioned inconsistencies!

I also assume they will want me to amend my standing order for the rent to reflect the increase, but again, they haven't, at any point, actually asked me to do anything of the sort, and I don't see why I should unless asked. They can't just assume.

Anyway, I wrote back to express my concerns, and rather passive aggressively added that I was taking the lack of a covering letter as an oversight, as I was sure they would not be so unprofessional as to issue such an important document as a revised contract via an automated email without including any supporting correspondence clarifying the course of action they wish me to take.

They wrote back (an unsigned email, so I don't have a named individual I can liaise with) saying that they are under no legal obligation to include a covering letter, but agree with me that it is important to provide clear instructions.

What their response does not do, however, is actually provide these clear instructions. They acknowledge my concerns, but do not address them in any way.

Maintenance dropped by without any warning written or otherwise. I was about to have an appointment. He laughed at me when I said he couldn't come in because I had an important appointment. He wasn't wearing a mask.

He laughed at me because I said he couldn't come in he laughed because I had a medical appointment he laughed and acted like I should still let him in even though I had no notice and I'm about to have a /very important medical appointment/