First photo taken with my new iMac

I promised you all an update on the drama of the apartment situation.

Last night my mom, an accountant for a law firm, told me that her friend at work wanted to come to the meeting with us and play our “attorney”. I was really excited at the idea except to find out he couldn’t come today since he’s busy moving to a new house. My mom was still dressed up enough to look like our attorney anyways.

We went to the office and met with our community manager and she looked a bit scared since none of us smiled or looked like we were enjoying the fact that we had to come to the office to deal with this. She started off by telling us that we received a 10 day notice which we were very aware of and warned her that we never received the first one so she said she was going to dismiss that one from our big fat folder.

She kept telling us that we were getting reported for running up and down the stairs at 2AM? It was so hard not to roll my eyes when she said that. Why would the heck we want to run up 3 floors? and run down 3 floors? And how do they have proof it’s us? It could be anyone! We both work and usually go to bed before 1AM.

My mom and I explained that we’re mentally and physically exhausted from all this and it’s taking a toll on our lives having to constantly be reminded that our neighbors could complain any second. We informed her that we would be more than happy to move out because we’re not happy here anymore. Of course it’s her job to keep us here and suggested that we could move to a different apartment if we wanted to. Our answer was No. She also slightly hinted that our neighbors downstairs are moving out soon anyways.

Conclusion of the meeting: We get to live our lives however we want to. I told her to quit the 10 day notice letters and to e-mail me if there’s another complaint. We made it clear to her that we don’t want to continue our lease if we get more complaints from now on.

We’re never living in an apartment again after our lease is up.

Our cats chewed on our floor lamp from IKEA

Today has been a definitely weird/off-ish day. At work KK and I were losing our minds! Things were not coming out of my mouth correctly… and we laughed it off.

I came home from work and got ready to defend myself at the office about the 10 day notice letter we received. My mom stopped by on her way home to be there for us. She walked out of her car wearing a suit jacket with a pencil skirt and her purse. She definitely looked like our lawyer!

We spoke with one of the leasing consultants and she grabbed our file. Apparently there was a “10 day notice” letter last Monday for us but we never received it. Go figure since they leave it on your door for anyone to see. So technically the letter we received last night was our 2nd letter.

I tried keeping my cool when talking to her. While she was busy talking directly to me and my mom… Tyler managed to read off some papers that were in our file on the desk. It’s definitely people below us reporting us since the compliant said “Neighbors upstairs…”

Unfortunately the community manager had just left for the day so we had to make an appointment to meet with her hopefully tomorrow or Monday.

After my mom arrived home, she paged me…

Mom: “You got busted by photo radar. A ticket came in the mail.”

Me: “Ugh, I knew it. What does it say?”

Mom: “I have to send it in saying it wasn’t me then they’ll send you the ticket. I think it’s $181 bucks”

Me: “Ouch… you’re accusing me!”

Mom: “Sweetie, but it’s the most beautiful picture of you!”

Just wonderful!! Definitely not my day.

Tyler and I went tanning tonight and we were excited and in a good mood to come back home to watch The Biggest Loser….only to receive a letter on our door from the apartment again!

“Ten Day Notice of Intent to Terminate Lease Agreement”

I’m unbelievably upset and pissed off. This letter was written yesterday and they didn’t give it to us until today? Also they decided to wait until the office closed to put it on our door…probably because they don’t want to face us now.

We both contacted our moms for advice. We have not had anyone over in a while and we always come home to make dinner, watch TV, go online…. how is that being loud? I feel like we’re not even allowed to breathe or walk at all in our own apartment that we pay rent for.

My mom is coming after work tomorrow to go to the office with us because I don’t think I can be rational and calm when approaching them. I’m mentally and emotionally tired of this happening all the time.

Tomorrow I want to tell them that we’ll be more than glad to move out because I hate their services because what can we do? We’re NOT doing anything at all so how can we keep it down a notch? Be lifeless in our apartment?

I’m stressed out because I don’t want to get evicted… and have to take time off work or anything to move. If worst case comes, I suppose we’ll be moving back to my parents’ house and seriously start looking into buying a house soon.

We’ll see what happens tomorrow….

On a brighter note, Obama came into Phoenix during rush hour!! I didn’t know why we were completely stopped at the Intersection on my way home with 2428934 police officers everywhere. It was Obama passing by to stay at Montelucia Resort & Spa where we stayed at in December. It’s exciting knowing that he’s only minutes away from us tonight!