The chronicals of Dirty J

Alright so this is my first post and I figured I should start by addressing an issue which has been bugging me for quite some time: NEGLIGENT LANDLORDS!!!!!!!

I have lived on my own for 2 years now and to be honest this year has been far from a great experience. Student life can be tough as it is as I'm sure many many students can attest to, but what makes student life even more frustrating is when your finally done a long day of classes and you can't even look forward to going back to your place of residence.

I'll start from the beginning.......
In August 2008 my friend and I decided that for our first year of school we would avoid residence and find our own place to live. As any student knows, there is a certain urgency when it comes to the matter of student housing and properties do go fast, so we were more than a little bit late and it was pretty slim pickings. After making some calls and looking around we ended up signing the lease on a nice 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom basement apartment. The place was great, good size bedrooms, recently refurbished, and the BEST part.....the landlord (I'll call him RJ) was a very friendly down to earth guy. To put it bluntly NO PROBLEMS!!! I'm not sure if a saying exists that states if something starts off going well it will probably turn out well, but when it comes to student housing and landlords my experience teaches me that is most definitely the case. On move in day we arrived at the property at 12:00pm (standard move in time) and were greeted by RJ and his lovely wife who were in the process of cleaning the house and changing the locks for us. We moved in got our keys and internet password and that was it, no bullshit excuse my language. Throughout the whole 8 months living there I never had a problem contacting RJ, and even when my room flooded (which was pretty serious) RJ arrived almost instantly, cleaned the mess himself, fixed the problem (which was something to do with the foundation), and assured me it would not happen again......AND IT NEVER DID! Thanks RJ.

Fast forward to March 2009, same scenario, a couple friends and myself are again in need of a place to live for the upcoming year.....except this time we actually got on it early enough that we would have a few more options. After some tours and searching we stumbled upon the fantastic house in which I am currently sitting in typing this post. HA....well the second part is true I am sitting in it but it's far from fantastic.

Fast forward again (sorry) to May 2009. After meeting several times with the landlord (I'll call him Dirty J for obvious reasons) the lease was finally signed and we were officially ready to move in.

I currently have some laundry waiting to be put in the dryer so I'll continue this lovely story in my next post.
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