Posted on 02/14/2006 4:10:28 PM PST by nolalakeviewgirl
Please no flames--I am at my wits end and just wanted to see if anyone has any ideas.
that's all I can figure out of this situation.
But it wouldn't be her, it'd be her employer.
Either way, I'd dump this idiot landlord and find another place. A church or something would work great in this case until something else comes available.
(I have seen this sort of thing happen on the fast growth end of an oil boom, when there was just not enough housing and people were staying in tents with winter coming on. Rents skyrocketed and no lease was worth the paper it was printed on.)
Then make sure you get all the 'i's dotted, and 't's crossed on time--while you look for another place.
LOL!!!
Have faith. You found housing before, and you will again. Just get your priorities straight. I sympathize. Just packing and moving in 24 hours is hard to even imagine. Plus, you have a job to go to.
Pets complicate things, and I have no doubt the landlord is just beginning to understand how much they can charge for a liveable place.
Sure they want to break the lease, so they can charge the next person more.
I have seen it happen before.
Her biggest problem is time, and maybe she can buy a couple more weeks, literally, from the landlord, but I have no doubt it won't be cheap.
I wrote my turn page paper on just the same topic. Well, actually, it concentrated a little more on a vacation I was taking to Chad at the time, but that's what the cover page and art work was about, how a low rent prostitute stole my pants along with my walet and the belt my grandma wove me.
Let me know if you see my belt, it could be with the landlord, you never know. Just mail it to me at the FreeRepublic offices listed on the website. Jim Rob will know what it is right away. Nana keeps asking about it at family functions.
Owl_Eagle
"You know, I'm going to start thanking
the woman who cleans the restroom in
the building I work in. I'm going to start
thinking of her as a human being"-Hillary Clinton
(Yes, she really said that
Peggy Noonan
The Case Against Hillary Clinton, pg 55)
I was hoping to get some thoughtful responses. I should have known better.
Stick around for a while, if you are for real ... you will find that the vitriolic crowd just loves a fight and will jump on anyone they can ... but that there are still a few folks sympathetic toward LA/NOLA. Frankly, most people seem to have gotten burned out on the topic a long time ago.
Good luck to you if you are for real ... and, if you are not, shame on you for utilizing a really sad situation [the problems in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita] as part of a troll charade.
You'll probably miss this, considering the time of night, but I'll try, anyway.
I looked up the Public Storage company units in your area and it looks like the NOLA properties are still having major problems. There are probably not any units available, because their website is begging their old tenants to come get their belongings out or at least check on them.
But on the off chance that you can find ANY storage units available, whether it's Public Storage or not, that's worth a few phone calls to them. They even have trucks you can rent.
http://www.publicstorage.com/CorporateInformation/newOrleans.aspx
I recommend them because they only charge $1 for the first month's rent, which helps in situations like yours (like if you also have to pay some movers and have very little money).
Get yourself mobile, anyway, by putting your furniture in a storage place. If you can't find one, you can still rent a truck if you have to and find some high school or college boys to carry and load things for you. Then drive the truck to near where you want to live, your Lakeview location, or a functioning area of NOLA (??), or someplace closer to TX--the trucks have hitches on them to haul your car behind you.
Also, if so many people had to be out of the FEMA hotel rooms this week, maybe there are hotel rooms available for a couple of nights, so you could park the truck, spend a night or two re-grouping with your pets alongside, and then decide what to do.
I just went through the same thing 2 years ago (I say "just" because it destroyed my life, made me physically ill and I am still living with the complications of it--so it seems like yesterday, plus I'm old and time flies). No one helped me move, had a houseful and lifetime of things, plus inventory and archives of my two businesses, and not a penny to my name.
All I wanted was one month without rent expenses and a neighbor gave me that. There was no other help for me unless I stripped myself of my last assets, which was as unthinkable to me as leaving your pets is to you. Luckily, I am living off of them, but have only $40-50 to live on each month, while trying to furnish a place to live. I have no car and can't get to my belongings in storage.
I know it will go well for you after this, as you don't have these same handicaps. You will find out you are stronger than you think. As a female, I would no more live in a homeless shelter in NOLA than I would live in one in Houston, TX, so don't let anyone tell you to do that--you know THEY wouldn't. That is suicide.
The main thing is to get your belongings and yourself mobile. FWIW, I know Jesus looks out for cherished pets because I always had plenty in my pockets and in the bank while my pup was alive--He was taking care of her! I'm not quite as lovable, evidently!
You're going on my Prayer List and I hope a miracle happens!
Thank you, that was interesting. Not really my situation, but maybe I can find something in it. The law really is unfair towards the renter here. Notice on Friday, out on Tuesday in 24 hours is just wrong. The notice asked to show cause. I produced the documentation from the Po as well as a letter from my employer. I also showed the attempted wire transfers. It wasn't like I was trying to not pay the rent for goodness sakes.
I guess I need to clarify, I was trying to make a case that it was out of my control to pay the rent on time due to the loss of this express package or something like that.
Direct deposit is working now! Unfortunately it may be too late for me.
"is this what they call an OPUS?"
No, it's a veiled attempt to make you feel sorrow enough to send money without the poster asking for it.
Are you completely clueless?
You are not the first newbie poster sob story tugging at heart strings and you won't be the last.
Good for your company. Sounds like they value long-term staff.
You're welcome.
Whether it was tugging at the heartstrings, or not it certainly doesn't sound as if she was hoping for money. She finally got that, what she needs is a roof over her head. Try mailing that! Even if she was after money, the problem is getting it there, duh!
I hope she will let those of us who are concerned know how it all turns out. I will check back here in a few days to see if there was a favorable outcome.
The keywords are hilarious.
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