FitOKay's Journal, 09 June 2014

I try not to complain much but I am REALLY stressed out about this and when Deb_N mentioned that can cause issues... well I thought maybe getting some of it out in writing would help.

Let me start by saying that I will never, ever buy investment property. Renting out our old hose has been the WORST experience ever. Our renters have cost us thousands. We recently figured out they basically conned us because they wanted a bigger frig and thought that the appliances in the house were owned by rent a center (because my brother in law manages a rent a center and had gone out to check on something they were saying wasn't working). So now I have a refrigerator sitting in my 90+ degree garage packed with drinks in it for a month now, trying to give benefit of the doubt that maybe over time it messed up or when full- but it works perfectly on the middle setting in a hot garage- I simply don't believe it was messing up in a temp controlled house. Their lease is up in July and it's the 9th of June and we haven't been paid for June yet... which means we have to juggle more money around to pay the mortgage after juggling $600 around last month to get a new frig bought, delivered and installed.

Then the month befor instead of telling us the water heater wasn't working correctly they waited until the heater coil in it blew out... then waited another 2 weeks just for good measure (with no hot water taking showers at a friends house- why wouldn't you just tell your land lords?). So by the time they told us there was an issue there were electric issues also from the breakers blowing every time the water heater tried to turn on so we had to deal with that plus the purchase, delivery and installation of a water heater (which is the installation is the expensive part of that).

Then my husband was there the other week to give them the notice of non renewal and said part of the fence... that is less then 2 years old, is down. We don't even know what's going on with that, but they haven't said anything about it so I'm just waiting until they leave to fix that instead of having to worry about the legalities of when we can be there and not to fix it. I'm especially frustrated because we knew them, didn't ask for a deposit and let them stay there for the first month and half rent free.

On top they have been pressuring us to let them stay. I'm just like, you have to be joking. You pay us late every month, you lied about the frig not working and cost us $600, you didn't let us know the water heater was messing up for WEEKS and cost us close to $1000. IDK wtf is up with part of the fence being down. You haven't even paid us for June and you want us to let you stay in July and past? We let you stay there without a deposit and rent free for a month and half to help you moving from your old place and holidays and you repaid us by never once paying rent on time and lying to us?

We also weren't trying to get a payoff out of them so only charged them $30 over our mortgage to put aside if something came up. Then something went wrong with last year's tax and insurance payment and they raised our monthly payment by $40 in February of this year. So we were loosing $10 a month on this even without all that.

The only good thing about this situation is that we did a 6 month lease (they moved in in mid November and didn't have to pay until January).

I am super worried they just aren't going to pay for June &/or are going to try and stay into July anyways, which means I have to pay legal fees to file to get an eviction notice, which then takes a week to two weeks to get a court date, have to present evidence against them (which we clearly have, but is still stressful) and then wait up to another 21 days for the legal eviction notice to be made and then have to take that to Sherrif's office to actually get them evicted. Really just hopping we don't have to deal with that but I have a nagging feeling we will.

Just REALLY stressed about the whole situation.

Luckily my best friend's niece (who is a few years younger then us and we grew up with) is going to come live there for reduced rent while we put the house back on the market. Everyone wins, we don't have to deal with people destroying our property (she currently lives with my best friend so we know she's not a bad tenant already lol), she gets her own place and can save money (she's starting to save for a house and wedding, no date yet but they have decided to get married in the next couple years). She happy to have a house to herself until we (hopefully) get the house sold.

I just want to be past all this and done. So yes... stress is probably the culprit of the crazy weight fluctuations atm. Hopefully it won't be an issue next month (fingers crossed I'm not in the middle of getting an eviction notice then).

Sorry for such a long rant... thanks you for 'listening'.

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1725 kcal

Fat: 63.25g | Prot: 55.06g | Carb: 244.53g.   Breakfast: Milk (1% Lowfat with Added Vitamin A), Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats Bite Size - Original. Lunch: Red Kidney Beans (Canned), Mashed Potatoes (Whole Milk and Butter Added). Dinner: Kraft Ranch Dressing, Vanilla Ice Creams, Pizza with Meat and Vegetables. Snacks/Other: Nature's Promise Organic Wildflower Honey. more...

1648 kcal

Activities & Exercise: Stretching (yoga) - 5 minutes, Sleeping - 11 hours, Resting - 12 hours and 55 minutes. more...