Kevin's Ramblings…

There was a bit of back and forth between my ex landlord and I via email.

He tried to justify the outrageous amounts he was claiming in my move out report. He attempted, unsuccessfully, to say that me paying for him to change the locks was justified. He also indicated that charging me for helping move stuff to the kitchen is allowed under the landlord tenant act. I don’t know that it is, but I’m highly doubtful.

My final offer to him was to walk away, her could keep what was left of the damage deposit, I owe him nothing and he owes me nothing. He declined indicating that I still owe him over $1800 after my security deposit was taken into consideration.

I told him that was my final offer and that he’s now blocked via text message and email and that I haven’t no interest in hearing from him again. As far as I’m concerned, that’s it.

He doesn’t have my forwarding address and now cannot contact me again. That sounds good to me. He claimed that he’s going to file a dispute with the landlord/tenant board or whatever it’s called. Hi ahead, make my day.

Not all landlords are idiots, this guy definitely is. I’m very glad to be out of there and if there weren’t two great restaurants in the Ranchlands area, I’d likely never get within a kilometer of Ranchlands again.

Ben, how about you go fuck yourself, that would be nice.

I’ve got some clothes to hang and put away and some junk in the office to organize and a few things need to go to my storage locker, but the place is shaping up nicely.

I’ve also got to setup my tv in the office, the new TV stand is in there ready to go. It’s nice having everything in its place, that’s for sure.

I’m enjoying apartment life thus far. There is no one in the unit beside me and no one above me either. There aren’t a lot of units occupied as yet, so, it’s very quiet. Things might change as they rent units out, be time will tell.

The dogs and I are in a good routine of going to the small off-leash park in the visitor parking lot. They don’t have a yard to play in but it’s working well. The community off-leash park is only a 10 minute walk away so that’s good. It’s been a bit cold to go there lately, but, spring is right around the corner.

I think I’m going to enjoy living here. Dealing with a property management company is far superior over dealing with an individual landlord in most cases and especially when compared to the last asshole I dealt with and am still dealing with.

I’m back to work Monday and starting next week, I’m working Monday through Friday on 8 hour shifts at opposed to the 12s I’ve been working for a year and a half. It’ll be a nice change and finishing up at 2pm in every day will give me tons of extra time in the day. Having only 2 day weekends will take some adjustment though.

Enjoy the rest of your week.

I received a “statement of account” from my former landlord. In a word, he’s an asshole.

I paid a security deposit of $2250 when I moved in. There were some missing items which I agree to pay for. He tried to charge me for assistance with my move to the tune of $120 for 4 hours of work. He offered, he didn’t tell me he was charging me. Ridiculous.

I had my housecleaner clean, he tried to charge me over $900 for a “light cleaning”. How about you fuck yourself?

There were also charges over $700 for repairs which aren’t reasonable. I’m thinking he’s probably on crack, that’s my guess anyway.

I don’t know where he came up with his numbers but they are way out of whack. I’ve told him I’m not paying what he’s asking for.

I don’t know if he’s going to revise his numbers or if he thinks I’ve fallen off a turnip truck, but he’ll turn blue holding his breath on what he asked for.

There are good landlords and then there’s him. A complete asshole.

I am back on what’s known as “the bench” at work. It menas I do not have an active client and am looking for a new assignment. I am still getting paid though, so that’s good and basically I am upskilling myself to find a new role at IBM.

I am no longer on the Airbus project and, unfortunately, Shared Services is full so there is no position for me. We do apparently have some dedicated clients coming on-board in the next few months, so, once one comes online, I will move over there.

Airbus was good, but, it was incredibly boring as it was a very low ticket client. There were days that we had no tickets to work on at all. So, all in all, this isn’t a bad thing. I will or could be on the bench for a number of months. Time will tell if I get a job elsewhere in IBM or, if I don’t, I will be separated in about 5-6 months or so.

For now, I will enjoy some training. I am also moving to Monday through Friday starting next week, I will be working 6am-2pm. I am losing my 3 and 4 day weekends, but, I am also only working 8 hours a day as opposed to 12. I will have a majority of my afternoons off which will be nice. It will give me time to walk with the dogs at the off-leash park before it’s dark.

After a week of living in the new place, I’m all unpacked and organized. I cannot take the credit for myself, my housecleaner (and her daughter) were instrumental in assisting and I thank them for their assistance.

The place looks great, now I’m just waiting for my furniture to arrive. I’ve ordered a leather sofa and loveseat, a cool coffee table and a sectional for the office. The sectional also serves as a bed and I’m sure that the dogs will enjoy laying on it while I’m working.

It was a very tiring week, to be sure. I’m glad it’s done and the house isn’t a disaster area any longer. Moving is a necessary evil, I suppose. I’m very glad to be out of the old place and away from 1) the Whackadoodle neighbour and 2) the asshole landlord. Not to see either of their pretty faces ever again is fine by me.

A fresh start is sometimes needed and this is a great fresh start.

Who knew I had so much stuff. OMG, my place is still a disaster but it’s slowly getting there. I’ll be done by end of day today. Now, I might have said this before and if I did, it was a definite exaggeration.

It’s now just clothes that need to be put away. The kitchen is done and finished. I still need to setup the office as well but I’m not back to work until Sunday so that’s a lower priority.

I have a bunch of stuff to move to the storage locker, I’ll get that done today as well.

The dogs and I have settled into a routine of going to the off-leash park for bathroom breaks and it’s working well. We haven’t walked as yet, it’s been too busy but we’ll get back into that routine as well.

We are getting a dumping of snow on Friday, if you can believe the weather forecast. Winter should shortly be leaving us with spring right around the corner. It hasn’t been a bad winter at all but spring is always welcome.

I’m looking forward to umpiring again in April – this’ll be my 29th year I believe. It’ll be good to get back on the field.

Well, off to fold clothes, what a fun job that is. At least all my clothes are clean.

I have the move out inspection at 10 today at the old place. There is some minor damage that needs to be repaired that I’ll have to pay for.

Most of it was caused by JT, he used screws to hang some artwork in a room, artwork being a broad term for it. Also, the front screen door needs to have the screen replaced thanks to Bruce. Perhaps I’ll charge the Crowsnest Pass Humane Society for that.

Other than that, the place is good to go and I’m very glad to be gone. After the inspection, I’ll be deleting the landlord’s contact information and hopefully never hearing from him again. In fact, if he tries to contact me, he’ll get no response. He was a piece of shit landlord with a cheap British accent. Fucking immigrants.

Other than that, I just need to finish unpacking and organizing today. The new place is shaping up well.

I have one more car load of stuff to move from the old place to the new place. It’s mostly clothes, I have to empty my walk-in closet and that’s it.

I do a move out walkthrough with my landlord and we’ll see how much he thinks is justified in charging me for damages. The room that JT used has some damage on the wall, he used bolts to hang artwork so those need to be filled and the wall repainted and the screen door screen needs to be replaced. Otherwise, the house is in perfect condition, with the exception of the awful floors but those aren’t my problem.

I’m glad to be out of there regardless. The landlord is an asshole, not overly responsive and quite smarmy. I take solice in the fact that I’ll never have to speak to him again in my life.

I’m hoping to get $1800 of the $2250 security deposit back, anything less would be a rip-off.

I had my tv mounted on the wall, it looks great.

The yellow cabinet is from my sister Joan’s furniture shop, I really like it.

I’m slowly unpacking and organizing. Too slowly I suppose. The EcoBox’s are going back Wednesday so I have all day tomorrow to empty them and get their contents organized. Although I seem to move often, I really don’t like it. That probably seems unbelievable given how often I do in fact move.

I think that the dogs and I will be happy here.