I used to live in an apartment building called Briarwood. I loved living there and had a very good relationship with the owners. Fast forward a couple years to when the owners have decided to semi-retire, sell the building and spend more time with their kids…
I couldn’t really stand the new owners or their building manager. As you probably already know, I had many problems and issues. I tried to take care of them in a respectful and professional manner, but things didn’t really work out. Then, due to some negligence in snow removal my apartment flooded. They knew it could happen, but were just crossing their fingers that it wouldn’t. I say this because that’s what the building manager told me. The flooding resulted in our apartment molding over and after being home for about an hour the next day I ended up in the ER and missing a month of work.
I was pretty pissed off about this. That happened at the end of February and it’s now almost September. I’m not back to 100% yet. After even more drama, we finally moved out of there. The owner said we shouldn’t be able to get out of the lease and the lease didn’t apply to me because I had “pre-exising medical conditions.” You may also remember my asthma doctor declaring that “bullshit“. We talked to the county and the health department and this information is what I think “scared” the owner into somewhat compromising with us. I kept saying I was going to type up a big rant and try and discourage everybody from living there and doing business with these people. Sort of like what I did when that tux shop screwed me over. I decided against it and don’t really regret it.
Fast-forward to today when I found out Briarwood has been recently sold. I wasn’t really surprised and I found it kinda funny. Yes, I’m taking pleasure in someone else’s misfortune. Am I a bad person? Maybe…but I’m ok with it. I had to immediately text Liz and inform her of this new information that had come to light. Supposedly the new owners, I have no idea who they are, are taking a personal interest in their investment like the owners I had when originally. It’s amazing how people can buy a thriving business, run it into the ground and ruin its reputation so quickly.
This is why people put, “Under New Management” on advertisements. I do hope the guys took a big loss, just so they don’t buy some other nice place and run it into the ground.
Lupa, you no longer live there and you are most certainly not a bad person. Really now, think about what you wrote. These idiots almost killed you by not doing what they LEGALLY MUST DO. Thus they broke the lease agreement that you had with them. If they had not compromised and let you out of your lease then you could sue them for BREACH OF CONTRACT. How do I know this, please remember that my oh so sweet, but very short lady friend, i.e. Circe, is a lawyer and even agrees. In my mind you should have taken them to the cleaners and then should have moved. Just my opinion, but enjoy Mexico and tell me all about it. Take care Lupa and dude, keep posting the podcast, lovin it.