Mean People 3/28/10

2010 was supposed to be a better year all around....or so I thought. New President, new opportunity for changes but it';s turning out to be almost non-stop abuse for me.I am trying really hard to not fall apart but after just one more event I am not sure it's possible.

January 24 car accident: not my fault: had my Honda for just ten days and this jerk pulls out from the shoulder of the road and rams into me.Bad enough but I end up getting a traffic ticket because they lied to the police. Had to fight that ; paid Nino (my lawyer) $350 to defend me and because I had a camera and got great photos, it was pretty simple...even my insurance company told me that. Still, the car came back not quite right...

Then, after 3 long years of fighting for some justice over my falling out here; then getting the first horrible lawyer : Sharon who failed to file on time and messed it all up, I am now being punished by my landlord : just got a "cold " letter from some Lawyer's office he hired to do his dirty work: telling me they do not plan to renew my lease (no reasons: just a terse statement to vacate and turn in the keys by April 30...just over 30 days from now).

I had not a clue this was coming....

I've been here over 5 years...I am what most people would call an ideal tenant...but Why does this happen to me? That thing with Joe in Florida over the water bill (I caught him tapping onto my account)...then because this guy, Jim Merod....is called in on this case (only because of Sharon's negligence) he decided to dump on me.

Maybe he can't do that...I guess Nino will let me know what I can do.

From what I have seen of Jim , this is no surprise. He has a temper and this would be in character for him. Way back when I first fell and the city came to make the sidewalk repairs....he screamed at me " I want you out of here." It is all about coming from a position of power......

Here, after all I do around this place..the only reason I stay is that it's good for the dogs and I am not physically up to moving now.

He has no grounds for this. I read up on retaliatory conduct by landlords and it does appear that he is in the wrong.

What I don't know is if Nino did recently call him in for a deposition ...and that set him off...something did.

An outside possibility could be the fact that I called the police to ticket those cars for blocking the driveway entrance...still, I should have every right that any resident has to not have people violating the law and making it difficult for me to get around their cars....How can that justify refusing me a lease when he has continued to allow me to live here for over 5 years UNTIL now.....?

That would be a question any judge would ask...

I DO need to move on but it will take me time....

I dread having to tell Debbie about putting the Sidney house on the market but it's time and I have no choice....

I have to look around here for something I actually like and not feel forced into moving just anywhere......it's so hard when you have dogs....

I don't know where I should go: I think just outside town, near Lansing ...where I can have some land...for the dogs...but not be isolated. I can't afford the taxes around here and don't want to be in town...

Maybe out where Bill lives...

But...I have to count on Nino to get this lease mess settled so I have the time I need...

People like Jim (and Joe) will have to face theirs eventually....a higher power always finds them and justice is served....People like that don't get away with such nastiness forever...it's just awful when I am their target..

I gave up trying to figure these people out...maybe they are just plain bad. Some people are kind and some aren't.

They never stop to think how their actions might cause hardship for others....but pretend to be religious...such hypocrites. We all know the type.

Me/ mine.....that's all they know. They live by a code of anger and getting even.

What harm they do to others makes no difference to them.

I just feel like I have been abused over and over. It is getting so I am becoming weak and almost as if I can't stand or walk straight: punch drunk, almost.

A person can only take so many beatings and bounce back. I think I am there now.

I was feeling at lest like I had some of this behind me: I was starting to think about a vacation or a retreat. I was happy about this "PUPPY LOVE" idea with the Cornell students....

Now I don't even feel I have energy to walk.....

I've been told to get out of the place I've lived for over 5 years and I have 30 days to do it.........

Not even the courtesy of a personal call...........Just "leave"....because you have inconvenienced me...Forget that you have been a responsible tenant, done more than anyone else ever has, really took some interest around here....You are dispensible if I say so !

It's happened 3 times : Bill and Mariann, Joe and now this.........................

Can I at least win for once?