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Edited on Thu Jul-27-06 08:00 PM by Whoa_Nelly
place. During my rent time there, THese are the things I did for HER per her request to improve her property!
1. Rototilled the backyard
2. Laid sod, and kept it watered, growing
3. Put in double high cherry landscape log garden border AFTER creating the border garden areas around the perimeter of the yard. (About 100+ feet of border garden at 2.5 ft. deep)
4. Went with her to help pick out year round garden plants and two trees for the front yard.
5. Planted all the bushes, flowers, etc, and the two trees
6. Kept everything watered
7. Mowed weekly front and back with my push mower
8. Helped her plan a brick patio with a sand base, did all the measuring, hauled everything in my car and to the backyard. Built the damn thing, double herringbone pattern with the appropriate amount of slope...was a 12' x 14' patio.
Comes the night before am moving (and yes, I gave her 30 days notice and she was planning on moving back into the place), and she shows up with her daughter at the door. Says she has some things to discuss with me. She decided the one fucking tree she chose that I planted was worth $250 and it was my fault it died. (I gave it food and watered it, but hey! It died. Sometimes young trees do that.) She tried to act very angry, and started ranting about how glad she was that I was going because I had been a terrible tenant. (...and no, I had never been late on rent.)
The place was already immaculate on my move out, (wasn't when I moved in), had already gotten the carpets cleaned, cleaned the fucking mini blinds in the windows every week ( I HATE miniblinds!), had always vacuumed, cleaned everything at least once a week, if not more, always kept the kitchen clean every fucking day....
I was pissed. Told her too bad she was being such a pain about something I didn't do, that she was insane to charge me that much over a cheap ass store bought baby tree, and that I still had renter's rights and to get the fuck out of my house.
I really wasn't that happy about her bullshit, not to mention that the house I was already moving into, the owner had someone make an offer on the place out of the blue, so he decided to go ahead and sell it, even though we had a contract for rent. The night the crazy landlady came over, the new landlord had told me earlier that day that I couldn't live there, and had to get my stuff out in 24 hours or else. I had a 10-year son at the time, raising him by myself, was going to school full-time and working. It was one really sucky day that day.
BUT! HAHAHAHAHAHA! I took the new landlord to court, and he had to pay for all my storage and the piano movers (had piano already in his house, had to move it to storage, and then move it again when I did find another place)....He had to pay me almost $2,000. The judge told him to shut up when he tried to make his case, and that he was unusually cruel, not to mention having acted illegally. I had documented well, and kept all receipts. :evilgrin:
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