Being reasonable but not allowing myself to be bullied or ignored. Part 3.

I am not sure this is the appropriate title for this topic. It is attention grabbing though, isn't it? Hey, it's a blog, not the submission of a screenplay or novel, or is it? I am kidding. Well, maybe someday I will live up to my "full potential" and education as a writer, but it won't be the story of conflict with a landlord. I've got far better one's in my history...

The Monday following my less than my cordial exchange with the counsel representing our building, I went to the management office and asked "so, you want us out of here?" The reply I received was "I don't know. I just got here and haven't checked my email." She told me I needed to speak to the manager, who I found out a day later was a returning manager after they fired the manager I had talked to originally during my heating issue. The manager, however, was out sick and not going to be in until Tuesday. I asked her to let her know I wanted to speak to her. I also dropped off a check for the 1st 7 days rent. I said genuinely I was doing this in good faith while we settled things. Reality is they shouldn't have accepted it. But, they did and cashed it.

I heard nothing Tuesday. I sent an email at the end of the day Tuesday saying I was wanting to talk the manager to bring this unnecessary debacle to a conclusion. I hear nothing on Wednesday. On Thursday, she responded not knowing what this debacle was all about (obviously also not having read the email exchange with the attorney that she instigated) but was willing to meet on Friday.

I called her, hoping to both expedite things and further, we were not available at the time she proposed on Friday and my husband also wanted to be there. I walked through the attorney emails sentence by sentence. She pulled them up and had, of course, not read them. She tried to dismiss the attorney's comments as simply stating facts, not threats. She said that if we wanted to stay, we could stay, we could and it would go month to month, which is not only the precedent here, but most everywhere. I said we were not comfortable with that given this recent scenario. I also said that because of it, we have been investigating options and noticing what else and at what cost are out there. She then said to send an email proposing what we would like in a new lease. Now, it sounded like we were getting somewhere...

But, it was short lived...