I've never been able to get her to fix anything, ad the few things she did fix she sent in an incompetent family member who messed things up even worse. All the things wrong with the place that I had to deal with since they were emergency situations and had to clean up from and try to get her to fix she's continued to neglect. A year ago because of all these things I lost my job. I continued to pay the rent with my savings until a couple of months ago when I ran out of money. I thought I would have been able to get another job pretty soon but it hasn't worked out that way, and in that time more things have exploded that she's also ignored.
In hindsight I would have done things differently and run out of here screaming. It's MY life this woman has ruined. God, I've been in such a mental stupor from the stress of all this that all I could think about is that I had to keep paying the rent and find a job. then I get an eviction notice taped to the door and had six days before the scheduled hearing which never should have been scheduled in the first place because she never filed a Notice to Quit. The court didn't care about that and wouldn't cancel the hearing. In those few days I had to gather as much info as I could, print out everything, get prints of all the photos, etc. I wanted an inspector in here to see all this before the hearing, but couldn't find out over the phone how to go about filing a complaint to get that to happen and who with. But that's also when the nice lady at the township office discovered that my slumlord never got a license to rent this property at all, and the owner is listed under a different name than I've always known her as.
The hearing was earlier this week, and after hearing the very long story about all this and seeing the photos and finding out that she's never had a license to rent this property and thus never had the property inspected in order to get the license the judge wants the property inspected by an agent from the township that does these things and scheduled the next hearing for next week to see where we are.
She lied like a rug in court, and the judge knows it because you'd have to be the dumbest person on earth to believe a word that came out of her mouth. And the judge is no dummy. He told her he didn't believe her excuses.
Then she has the nerve to call me right after the hearing to tell me that after two years she's finally willing to have the sewage pipe fixed, and the only reason she wants to is because the judge was furious about that pipe and she doesn't want the township inspector to see it. Fat chance. I had the plumber come to look at it and figure out how long the job would take, the cost, etc. and he knows he can't actually fix it now until the township inspector sees it.
Then a few days ago I opened her property tax bill by mistake because I saw that whatever it was came from the township, and I thought it had something to do with eviction since the judge said I'd get a notice about the date and time of the next hearing. Turned out it was addressed to her and was the tax bill for this year's property taxes. It was sent to her under one of her aliases to this address, and I've gotten these every year but threw them out unopened. For 10 years I've been getting more of her mail here for her than for me.
Now I don't even know what her real legal name is. The name on the tax bill is the same name they have for the owner of the property, but I've always known her by a different name which is on the lease. I'm trying to figure out if she's been paying any of the property taxes all this time since she's not been getting the bills, and the township has no idea where she lives. The township website says that it's the property owner's responsibility to let them know of a change of address, and she never has nor notified them of a name change. If she's been paying her property taxes for this property then why am I getting the tax bill from the township with this address rather than her own home's address and whatever the hell her legal name is now.
I'm curious about whether or not she owns and rents other properties because she's been telling me that she can't pay her mortgage for the house she lives in because she does it with my rent money. I don't think the judge cares anymore about my rent money or what she needs it for, but it would help with him if I could prove that she has plenty of money through other rental properties. As long as I've known her she's never worked. There's another neighbor on this street that has known her since childhood, and I know from her herself that she inherited this property but the neighbor had told me she also inherited other properties in the area that she rents.
And just last week suddenly all the tires on my car are leaking out air and they're fairly new tires. Today I wanted my mechanic to fix that issue and see whether or not they were sabotaged, because if they were it had to have been her. When I talked to him on the phone he found it very strange that all four of them are leaking out air all at the same time. But today it snowed a hell of a lot more than the weatherman said it would, so now I can't take the car in until Monday. It looks like the snow may have finally stopped now though, but we've got somewhere between 6 inches and close to a foot. Until Monday I'm going to have to periodically fill them all with air.
As of now I'm very nearly dead broke. I haven't gotten another job and in the last two weeks I've not even been able to spend hardly a moment on that because of all of this. I did get to do one interview for a job so fabulous I thought their contacting me about doing an interview was a scam - some sick joke by somebody. I just found out today that they decided to give the job to someone that works there already. I'm so bummed. I wanted that job so bad if I had any money I would have bought it.
After this is all finally resolved I swear I'm going to write a book. It's a riveting story with so many last minute surprises and twists and turns. At this point, I actually have no idea who my slumlord even IS anymore!
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