Monday, January 12, 2009

More time?!?!?

Today at work, I received a phone call from a tenant who is very behind on her rent and is currently being 'kicked out', for lack of a better term. Her utilities have been turned off for well over a month. And when I say she is behind on her rent, I mean four months behind. Normally, I would NEVER let someone get that far behind but I really believed she would get herself caught up, like she always had before. When I suspected she had moved, I went to her house to see if I could peek through the windows and see if they were still living there or not. Well the house was full of furniture, obviously they hadn't moved, but the power meter was gone. Bingo! I called the power and water companies and both utiliites had been turned off for some time. SO that meant that I could place an abandonment notice on the door and 14 days later, if the utilities were still not on, I could change the locks and throw all their crap away! The 14th day will be Wednesday and she calls today, the 12th day, to tell me that she is still in fact living in the house. Greeeeeat. I explained to her that she could either move by Wednesday because I was changing the locks that day, OR she could turn her utilities back on and pay her huge balance. And do you want to know what she said?? She says that she just needs more time. More time??? Like FOUR MONTHS wasn't enough time for you? Seriously? Did I just hear her say that four months wasn't enough time for her to get her crap out of my house?? And not only is she four months behind on her rent (money that we will NEVER see), my question is this: how the heck has she, her husband and her TWO CHILDREN been living in a house with no power or water for such a long time? We've had some coooold nights in Alabama this past month and this coming week, we are expecting low's in the teens! And HOW, dare I ask, have they been flushing the toilet?? I can only imagine what the inside of that house will smell like.... So I eventually gave in and told her she could have until Monday morning to move everything out. We will see...

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