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| Sat, 08-13-2005 - 7:32am |
As you remember, I invited this semi homeless couple into my home with the agreement that they would pay $600.00 in rent money, when they had been paying $1100 and living in a small one bedroom apartment with two babies. Also that they haven't been doing their dishes nor cleaning their living area etc....The agreement was for rent to be paid on the first of the month.
Well, after 12 days of living here without paying rent, they have finally moved out! I gave them written notice on two separate occasions. The first to give a deadline, the second to move. In my attempt to collect the money, I wrote a question that I thought for sure would get them to live up to their responsibilities. I asked, "you used my car for over a month to locate a job for D and to transport you both back and forth to work, and this is how you repay me for my generosity"? Not to mention the many times I coordinated my schedule to accomodate their needs!
They left true to their nature, a huge mess for me to clean up! L did stop singing her perky gospel melodies, while she was in happy land thinking I wouldn't have the courage to act, I was typing out the legal notice for them to vacate my home. After she read the notice she stopped singing. Then they were angry with me for asking them to leave. I also told them that it was not my intention to go out into the community to find four people that I could support in addition to my own family. That I didn't have enough bills and that I really wanted to find people to run up all my utilities so I could pay more for my home. They were having dinner parties paying for the food and inviting their friends into my home, and yet couldn't pay their portion of the rent!
One thing I'm very glad about is that I no longer have to watch them interact with each other. He reminded me of my ex. He was controlling and she was subservient to him. Where are you going, how long will you be gone, hurry back back so I don't have to watch the kids? He controlled how long she was on line and was looking over her shoulders constantly telling her what sites to check out and keeping the kids in the same room until she got off line. Do the laundry, have dinner ready for me when I get home, yadda yadda yadda. It turned my stomach inside out, seeing how he treated her and how shallow minded he was towards her! Everything revolved around his happiness! Geesh, thank god I had the courage and good sense to walk away from my marriage! lol
Well that's the end of this story, chalk the whole experience up as a bad memory that needs to be dumped! I spoke to a paster yesterday and he recommended I contact their church to see if I could recoup some of the money from the couple. He said when you open your home up to people you should always expect the worst from the beginning, then I wouldn't have been so disappointed.
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