I just love upending my schedule for people who don't give a shit about me

[mousme]

I am perhaps overreacting about my landlady, but I am incredibly frustrated. After the whole cleaner saga, she has come back and told me that the cleaners said my pets had *stained* the floor and that, as I said yesterday, the cat litter smell is overwhelming. I'm honestly flummoxed as to why they would say that. I have had pets irreversibly stain floors before, and I paid to replace them out of my own pocket. These floors? Not stained.

She insisted on having floor people come to see the house today, which in turn forced me to cancel my afternoon appointments. Did she turn up at the time she said she would? No, of course not. I didn't know the main purpose of their visit, so I was unable to answer even the most basic of their questions. They were very nice, though, and made friends with the cat and the dog. They agreed that my floors are not stained, that it's just normal wear and tear, and they will be passing the message along to my landlady, thank goodness. They also gave me a good trick to keep further dog hair out of the ducts, which was the previous reason for my landlady freaking out.

As for the litter boxes, well, I've got nothing. I don't smell anything, other than the smell of normal clay litter, which does have its own distinct odour. It's not the same as used litter, so if it's the clean litter smell that's the issue, then there's nothing I can do about that. I poured out all the old litter today and washed the litter boxes, just in case, and went down on my hands and knees in the house just to make sure I hadn't missed a spot where one of the cats might have been going outside the litter boxes, but I found nothing. *shrug*

Honestly, part of me kind of hopes she'll pitch one final fit and just ask me to leave. It'll be easier to deal with the extreme anxiety of having to movie on short notice than to deal with the constant rollercoaster of crazy. I mean, I'm not really in a position to move, financially speaking, but I *could* do it if I had absolutely no choice, and I'd be out from under her thumb. I really regret signing that lease now, let me tell you.

In short: ugh.

Comments

[elanya]

In tangentially related news, I did not get the PC job :(

[mousme]

Oh, damn. That sucks, and I officially think you were robbed. :(

*hugs*

I'm truly sorry. We would have had epic adventures in Ottawa.

[elanya]

Thanks. *hugs*

I am disappointed but hopefully I can learn something from it I have asked them why I wasn't chosen and apparently am now going to get a 'post-board review', so who knows what I may get out of that!

I also really hope your landlady comes to see reason, she sounds like a nightmare D:

[mousme]

That sounds promising!

Who knows, there might be other jobs in Ottawa, in which case my offer still stands. :)

My landlady has a serious Jekyll and Hyde thing going on. I'm not sure what to expect from her at any given moment, which is anxiety-producing, to say the least.

[prolixfootle.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear you're going through this. To me, she sounds like someone who dislikes animals, and no amount of reasonableness will convince her that harm hasn't been done to her property. It makes me wonder why she rented to a pet owner in the first place...

[mousme.livejournal.com]

When I first signed on, she was using a property management company. Neither she nor I had direct contact for over a year, until she decided that she didn't want to pay for their services and took over herself. The property management people were a delight to rent from: I paid on time, they left me alone unless I needed repairs done. She, on the other hand, is a living nightmare, popping up unannounced at all hours of the day (up until well past 10 pm, when I am usually asleep, especially on a work night), refusing to do repairs I request but randomly doing stuff *she* thinks is necessary, and complaining at intervals about my pets.

In fact, I'd love to go back to being their tenant in the future, if it comes to that.

[kiwano.livejournal.com]

There's always this option (http://www.sjto.gov.on.ca/documents/ltb/Tenant%20Applications%20&%20Instructions/T2.pdf) :P

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Hah! Would you believe I already had a tab open to that link? XD

[kiwano.livejournal.com]

I'd believe it very easily

[kiwano.livejournal.com]

...and it looks like my link to the relevant form for the Landlord and Tenant Board got auto-marked as spam. I don't know if a judge strongly recommending that she re-hire the proparty management company would accomplish much (or even if the judge would make a strong recommendation in that vein), and it'd likely be a huge time sink, but, y'know :P

[mousme.livejournal.com]

I am keeping this in my bag of tricks, but given how unstable my landlady is, it kind of feels like the nuclear option right now, and I have a feeling she'd make a point of making my life a living hell while the LTB dragged their feet. I made the mistake of not documenting when things occurred with her, so I have to start from scratch, as it were. My own fault for assuming people have good intentions starting out.

[kiwano.livejournal.com]

Yeah, potential lawsuits in one's back pocket are much better than real lawsuits. I've got a substantial severance+wrongly-docked-pay suit sitting in my back pocket, in case my last employer gets some funny idea that the non-compete language in my contract is still enforceable. I also harangued him about $1.7k in miscalculations on my pay, which he paid without suit, so hopefully he's clued in that he should let this particular sleeping dog lie.