I need to find a new sewing studio PRONTO! The building I have been working in has drug addicts living in a storage unit up the hall, at whose request I have called 911 when one of their party was ODing, and who, since the toilet broke have been using plastic bags and putting it in the regular garbage. The plumbing burst and the hallway has flooded, and the legit tenants have piled up garbage and old furniture around the building so that it looks like they are building a fort of crap. The aging landlord refuses to do anything I have even cleaned up the bagged garbage and cleared the halls, and offered to help him load the piles of furniture, old mattresses, etc in his truck and take it to the dump! I have called the housing authority and his son... what a waste of time, and a public safety nightmare! However, this is just one example of the crazy crap that I have had to deal with in rental situations that inspires me to build my own home:
- I was bitten by a rabid cat while pregnant, an animal that came into one rented house and incurred $11,000 in medical debt. I sued the land lady and lost.
- I have had 2 rented houses sold while I was a tenant and been forced to move, once when my son was only 3 months old and while my ex-husband was away in Japan, and the other when I lived on an island that had no regular car service or other rental options, so I had to move everything off on a pontoon barge.
-I have lived in many places infested with mice and other pest, places that were about as insulated as a card board box, and places that were just plain old falling apart. It seems like most landlords just think all they have to do is sit back and collect the checks, and do nothing to maintain their property and provide a safe environment to live/work in.
-I have had to move suddenly because of toxic mold creeping up the walls and causing dramatic and terrifying asthma attacks.
-I have had the rent for my work space raised 600% in one month and been forced to move.
-I have had two relationships go south that have forced me to leave the home we shared together.
- I have had to move suddenly on several occasions and not had the $$ set aside and had to move all my things almost one piece at a time in my bike trailer or a plastic children's wagon... like when I had to leave my ex-husband in the night.
-I was raised in a household that had a lot of tension and conflict. My family has told me to get out on many occasions, the first time when I was still a teenager, which is why I left home @ 17.
-I have lived with people who have wanted me to make more money or "get a real job" and made life intolerable in my own home in order to force me to do what they wanted me to do, even though I have never borrowed any money from someone I haven't paid back or short changed anyone on the rent or bills... most people are just so hung up about money that they see an erractic income as a threat and the person who earns erractically as nearly criminal.
- I have lived with people who have had drug problems/sex addictions and become violent, including my ex-husband.
-I am sick and tired of the pollution created to provide electricity to on the grid homes.
- Buying a house/land to build on is really really expensive, and then you are stuck with a mortgage with a bank that is crooked and greedy, slaving away to pay off interest on a loan while they pay you pennies on the dollar in interest on deposits, and in the mean time get bailed out with tax payer money!!!!! Crooks!
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