Moving during bankruptcy...a total experience!
To those of you just begining this process & those of you like me, waiting to close...here's what the moving experince for me was like...while still in the process of bk....
1. The anticipation of waiting to hear about your credit check that you just paid $50 for someone to look at & know that you're basically f*cked for credit...but yet GETTING APPROVED ANYHOW!!!
(I don't know how that happened...maybe because I've been at my job since November of 2004 and paid my rent without fail from 2003 to present...???)
2. Figuring out how to move your belongings without the $ for renting a u-haul......and even though the friends that said they'd move you didn't ((too early on Saturday morning for that one.), but one came through with a big 6'x 12' open trailer and the other did some touch up painting while enjoying the moving party....
3. Finding out that the key to the new apt. does not fit and a tropical storm/possible hurricane is now approaching the west coast of FL...when else would I pick to move?
4. Being lucky to get someone else's nice furniture (free from mold) but having to move it down three flights of stairs and then up another...between the rain....
5. Living out 1/2 the security deposit so you don't have to pay any rent for the month of June becuase you do have to pay 1/2 the rent at the new place and hoping it will all somehow even out....
6. Waiting for some "checks in the mail" from some cleaning jobs that will pay for the cell phone bill that's now 2 months behind (can't figure out why but it must have been to take care of something else that needed attending to...)....and the "checks in the mail" are a week late...if that doesn't have the tendency to have us on a yogurt & banana diet...I don't know what does...
7. And, finally, when the move is complete and you can't climb another step...the manager of the old beach house says..."you didn't clean the bathroom good enough...there's mold...."DUH...that's what I've been screaming about for at least a month"....and I didn't clean the oven...and I didn't repaint the red wall that looks great with the black/white kitchen floor...finally giving in and agreeing just to get the possible $200 back from the security deposit...only to have a call come last night at 10:12 p.m. when I'm asleep...telling me to forget painting & cleaning 'cause it's taken care of & please get the washer & dryer out because the new people will be coming in this weekend....
8. Does that mean they are truely slumlords and will not be cleaning the A/C ducts? and ... the new people will soon be getting the mold sickness because now, not only does the air quality suck, but the carpeting is full of old dog hair & mold spores...plus the windows don't quite shut from two years of strong hurricane winds????
OK..well...that's what's been going on with my move...thank god we're out & I just had to vent a bit...thank you & if you have to move during your bk, may it be easier than my move!
1. The anticipation of waiting to hear about your credit check that you just paid $50 for someone to look at & know that you're basically f*cked for credit...but yet GETTING APPROVED ANYHOW!!!
(I don't know how that happened...maybe because I've been at my job since November of 2004 and paid my rent without fail from 2003 to present...???)
2. Figuring out how to move your belongings without the $ for renting a u-haul......and even though the friends that said they'd move you didn't ((too early on Saturday morning for that one.), but one came through with a big 6'x 12' open trailer and the other did some touch up painting while enjoying the moving party....
3. Finding out that the key to the new apt. does not fit and a tropical storm/possible hurricane is now approaching the west coast of FL...when else would I pick to move?
4. Being lucky to get someone else's nice furniture (free from mold) but having to move it down three flights of stairs and then up another...between the rain....
5. Living out 1/2 the security deposit so you don't have to pay any rent for the month of June becuase you do have to pay 1/2 the rent at the new place and hoping it will all somehow even out....
6. Waiting for some "checks in the mail" from some cleaning jobs that will pay for the cell phone bill that's now 2 months behind (can't figure out why but it must have been to take care of something else that needed attending to...)....and the "checks in the mail" are a week late...if that doesn't have the tendency to have us on a yogurt & banana diet...I don't know what does...
7. And, finally, when the move is complete and you can't climb another step...the manager of the old beach house says..."you didn't clean the bathroom good enough...there's mold...."DUH...that's what I've been screaming about for at least a month"....and I didn't clean the oven...and I didn't repaint the red wall that looks great with the black/white kitchen floor...finally giving in and agreeing just to get the possible $200 back from the security deposit...only to have a call come last night at 10:12 p.m. when I'm asleep...telling me to forget painting & cleaning 'cause it's taken care of & please get the washer & dryer out because the new people will be coming in this weekend....
8. Does that mean they are truely slumlords and will not be cleaning the A/C ducts? and ... the new people will soon be getting the mold sickness because now, not only does the air quality suck, but the carpeting is full of old dog hair & mold spores...plus the windows don't quite shut from two years of strong hurricane winds????
OK..well...that's what's been going on with my move...thank god we're out & I just had to vent a bit...thank you & if you have to move during your bk, may it be easier than my move!
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