the good, the bad, the sketchy
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Housing stuff and connectivity
So![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dragon_spirit and urbanbard and I are waiting at the new apartment for the telephone guy to show up. The carpets are being put in today too, which makes things a little hectic.
I get to the apartment before everyone else (as expected) and the carpets are all laid out but not installed. No one is there but the door is open.
They look FABULOUS. Very good choice for this apartment. Coordinates with the bathroom and kitchen tiles, etc. Yay.
But the landlady, Annie, is there. Which puts a damper on us sitting around and shooting the breeze. She and I chat and she asks me why I'm not at work. Truthfully, "I don't work Mondays and Wednesdays."
She goes to lunch and the carpet people come back and start installing shit. Yay. And I discover a fairly strong wireless network that is unencrypted. Go me! I have wireless! My cellphone also seems to have good reception here, unlike the place off Haight.
So I'm about to settle into some good online geeking when a man walks in and asks for the owner. He says she was going to show the place to him today to rent. Weird. I told him she had gone to lunch, but that she had already rented to me and my friends. They're both here now, and she's telling him that he took too long to get back to her, she had to make a quick decision, and we were in touch and he wasn't. For a while, though, I was wondering what was going on. Really. Seemed kinda sketchy.
Now the landlady is telling me that he tried to ask her to change her mind. She told him "no." Phew. Could she even do that legally, given we all signed a lease together (and we kept a copy)? Not that she would. She seems to really like us.
On my way to Financial Independence as a Freelance Writer!
According to some books, anyway.
One of the books I read told me that when editors start calling ME, I know I'm on my way to financial independence. Yesterday I received a call from Home Energy Magazine. They want me to do a freelance article for them. I have no idea how they got my name. And there is NO way I count as even remotely established as a freelance writer. But d00d! I'm so excited! I have to get back in touch with her.
Good day so far. And Maura should be here soonish. Yay!
Housing stuff and connectivity
So
dragon_spirit and urbanbard and I are waiting at the new apartment for the telephone guy to show up. The carpets are being put in today too, which makes things a little hectic.I get to the apartment before everyone else (as expected) and the carpets are all laid out but not installed. No one is there but the door is open.
They look FABULOUS. Very good choice for this apartment. Coordinates with the bathroom and kitchen tiles, etc. Yay.
But the landlady, Annie, is there. Which puts a damper on us sitting around and shooting the breeze. She and I chat and she asks me why I'm not at work. Truthfully, "I don't work Mondays and Wednesdays."
She goes to lunch and the carpet people come back and start installing shit. Yay. And I discover a fairly strong wireless network that is unencrypted. Go me! I have wireless! My cellphone also seems to have good reception here, unlike the place off Haight.
So I'm about to settle into some good online geeking when a man walks in and asks for the owner. He says she was going to show the place to him today to rent. Weird. I told him she had gone to lunch, but that she had already rented to me and my friends. They're both here now, and she's telling him that he took too long to get back to her, she had to make a quick decision, and we were in touch and he wasn't. For a while, though, I was wondering what was going on. Really. Seemed kinda sketchy.
Now the landlady is telling me that he tried to ask her to change her mind. She told him "no." Phew. Could she even do that legally, given we all signed a lease together (and we kept a copy)? Not that she would. She seems to really like us.
On my way to Financial Independence as a Freelance Writer!
According to some books, anyway.
One of the books I read told me that when editors start calling ME, I know I'm on my way to financial independence. Yesterday I received a call from Home Energy Magazine. They want me to do a freelance article for them. I have no idea how they got my name. And there is NO way I count as even remotely established as a freelance writer. But d00d! I'm so excited! I have to get back in touch with her.
Good day so far. And Maura should be here soonish. Yay!
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Date: 2003-03-26 03:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-03-26 05:53 pm (UTC)For the other part, you'd have to check your lease and see what it says. Short version? No, probably not.
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Date: 2003-03-26 10:08 pm (UTC)If the lease is signed, I doubt the landlord can back out of it any more than you can. It's a legal, binding contract. Unless it contains some kind of language like "may be nullified by either party prior to move-in date", you have a lock on that place.
Get to know that document really well, because it spells out exactly what your obligations are, and what the landlady's obligations to you are. As in, "will stand up in court."