What a $ Mess!!!

This is perhaps my most angry blog! No, there will not be any vuglarities as I am not the type to shout the F or S word unlike one of my sis in law. (clue: not local)

What happened is this: Our current landlord had hiked the rental by double what we had been paying for a small studio apartment with panaromic seaview. She had bought this unit, our matrimonal home in 2006 with tenancy and had to of course honour the tenancy agreement. However, as the lease nears expiration, it became evident that we need to move out of our beloved home. For $3000, it no longer seemed wise to rent this small apartment when there was only a bedroom for the 3 of us. Besides, yan had begin to teach mainly from home and having an aircon room as a piano studio will definitely be better for the teacher, the students and the family.

When told that we will not renew our lease based on the new terms, the landlord was pleased to "offer" this: that she would prorate the rent should we move out earlier a week or two since our lease will expire on 8 sept 2008 and they needed time to refurnish this "vacant" apartment to get it ready for the next tenant. Its sounded like a ok deal, as we had began house hunting and its really not easy to get a unit that we like, that is both functionable and affordable since rental rates in D15 are really on the high side.

With the piano studio as our main criteria, we finally found a suitable unit in the neighbouring estate and managed to start the tenancy a month later, thinking that we could move out earlier. Moving out earlier would mean that the current landlord could get much better rates too in the current market situation, yes at least double.

To my horror, when spoken to yesterday.The landlady seemed to "forgot" what she had said or offered. She was not at all agreeable to us moving out earlier and insisted we stay till the end of the lease as it was "unfair" to her. She kept mentioning that she need our rental to make loan payments taken against the property. What was to be a amiable solution turned into a angry emotional conversation. I was really upset. Perhaps more with myself that I should be so trusting. That without the preferred legal black and white, I took the "bait" and now out new place is 24 days early and paying rent on both sides will set us back by some $3200. I just could not believe that she would go back on her own words and then deny and then tried to re-explain everything to " what she think she had meant out of kindness was"...etc etc.

We tried to delay the start date for the new place without any avail. Still, to lose $3200 like that is crazy. It was something I should have been more careful about. Afterall, she was no friend or relative but a landLORD who needs to $$$$. My dad and eve had always advise that one should never trust others easily. Perhaps I grew up in the church environment where everyone is kind of reliable and help was readily available.

A sincere naive moment and now this......................MESS! SIGH!

Even blogging about it makes me fume still.

While this issue is beyond me and my family, I am thankful that I have a God who cannot fail who does not go back on his words. My family is depending on the almighty Father God to get us out of this mess and to minimise the potential financial damage. Even so, God can restore to us the years the locusts had eaten. He will definitely bless us back many more fold.