Ups and downs

[luzula]

The upside:
I was at the annual meeting of my forest environmental organization this weekend, and it was GREAT. Lots of good discussions, lots of good friends there, no conflicts. We have a great board for the coming year. I am all full of new energy!

The downside:
And then I get home and find that the landlord FROM HELL has had people go into my room without asking or telling me and painted the windowsills. They moved all my plants and some other stuff around. I had a sex toy by the bed and various other private stuff lying around. He may own the house, but this is MY FUCKING PRIVATE ROOM and I will FUCKING END HIM. This is not the first time recently that he sends people in to do various renovation stuff without telling us first, which is not okay either, but this is an order of magnitude worse. What makes it even worse is that it's obvious he's only doing this because he's going to sell the house. Before that, he never renovated anything or fixed anything that was broken if he could help it.

We're having a meeting with him tomorrow and I'm calling the tenants' organization before that.

Comments

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

ARGH: I hate that kind of BS- I was once living in a cooperative house in the U District (across from the back of the University District Branch of Seattle Public Library, in fact) which was owned by a man who had a dozen or so rentals, all painted the same discouraging shade of mushroom. He had his painters come around one sunny Saturday morning in June about 7am: they closed the uncurtained east-facing windows in my bedroom and then painted them shut. I awoke to temperatures well above the legal maximum, uncomfortable even though I had gone to sleep naked and uncovered... the resident who held the rental agreement raised holy hell and got the painted-closed problem fixed by the end of the day but nothing has ever quite fixed the privacy violation.

Julia, no matter how strict the landlord-tenant laws, some landlords don't even care a little.

[luzula]

Yeah. I have been distracted by other things and am not in the immediate anger phase anymore. And I've accepted that making a police report and trying to do anything about it that way would take much more energy than it's worth. Still, I hate that he's getting away with it and is apparently doing the same thing to other tenants, and doesn't care one whit that my privacy was invaded. Arrrgh.