Not Happy

I was going to write a nice long post about Lex and Lauren, their new child, and Lex's kindred spirit (who I found online). That post will have to wait though as I just got an e-mail from our landlord that really brought me down.

We had basically agreed on extending the lease and were set to have a meeting on Tuesday night to wrap up the details and sign. The terms of the lease were going to stay the same except that we were going to request that either the landlords fix the problem that prevents the apartment from receiving hot water in the winter from the building's central heating, or to lower the rent to cover the cost of heating water in an electric boiler.

Tonight the landlord e-mails and says that she is bound legally to have the lease approved by another party because she is acting on behalf of her father, and that party is requiring her to raise the rent. This may be legitimate but it still has really pissed me off.

The pissed-offiness is compounded by the fact that we have had several problems with our landlord over the course of the year and are model tenants. We pay the rent on time, cause no damage, are clean, and get along with the neighbors.

We thought that our living situation was relatively settled until Michelle finished her degree. Now I'm not so sure.