I am so angry I can barely think -- we moved into this apartment at the beginning of February, but a month later it was sold to some semi-corporate landlord across the country. This bastard has subjected us, since March, to a nearly unending string of worthless and semi-anonymous property managers, insufficient notice of entry, and near-constant renovations all summer starting with loud noises from 8AM to 8PM. Since announcing his intention to sell the building as (over-priced) condominiums in late August, we have been visited at least weekly to a string of strangers poking around our stuff and dragging dirt onto our carpets.
Finally, finally, last week we managed to find a new place with a friend, and we're moving in at the end of November. The day after we decided to move, we got a notice of entry with "PLEASE NOTE THE DATES", outlining their intention to host an open house weekly for the next six weeks, with their viewing time for our apartment conveniently situated during dinner time each week.
I am not a saint, nor do I have the patience of one, but I have been shockingly polite and patient during most of this colossal BS. The prospect of being out of this slum in a month's time had managed to relax me even further.
HOWEVER. This is the conversation I had with the latest emissary of the landlord, around a quarter after 5PM.
INCOMPETENT PROPERTY MANAGER: Hey, just wanted to let you know that we're having to turn the water off. Indefinitely.
ME: ... What. [beat] How indefinitely.
IPM: Well... there's water and sewage backing up in the laundry room, in the boiler room... I don't know how long it's going to take. We've got a plumber coming, but he's got to go get one of those long snake augers, and with rush hour traffic... Who knows.
ME: So tonight indefinitely...?
IPM: [weak laugh] I sure hope so!
ME: Because if we don't have water tonight, we're going to have some real... problems.
IPM: Yeah, I know, I just-- [helpless shrug]
ME: And if the water's not back on, what're you going to do for us?
IPM: I-- I just-- He's working on it right now, and I can leave a note on your door or something when I get a timeframe.
ME: ... Right.
IPM: So just to let you know, the water's already off.
Leaving me with no water except the cup or two I have in a pitcher in the fridge, no timeframe on when I might get water back, and my BURNING FURY. |
