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Thursday:

Goals: Clean up the trash bags left over from the week, divide the cabinets into piles to check to see if we are missing anything and to make assembly easier. Start building cabinets.

Well, we have a slight kink in our plan. Back-story: Our idiot landlord started pestering us the day after we gave him our 30 day notice to show our apartment. He came over the day after and said he wanted to show it that weekend. We said the place was in no way ready for random strangers to be walking through it.

We're not rich folk, but we do have a lot of camera equipment, cd's, computer equipment and random other things strewn about the apartment in preparation for packing and due to negligence from our being at the other place all the time. We said no way on showing, and he got all up in arms and demanded that we look at our lease, and said that he can show anytime he wants with 24hr's notice because it says so in the lease and that the weekends were the best time for him to show the unit, blah blah blah. He is one of those types of people that I can't stand. Like a bad used car salesman he tries to tell us the benefit of having random strangers walking through our place. "It will rent sooner, and thats good business." he says, as if we care about his good business. From what I have seen this guy can't find a renter who isn't a complete derelict, and has never rented a place before the people move out. So I anticipate 3 weeks of random goobers schlepping through our house.

We talked to Joyce (since she is a landlord) and got some good advice, and I got crafty and looked up the California Civil Codes on renting and found out that our toolbag landlord has to give us 24hour WRITTEN notice, can only show from 9-5. and cannot show on the weekends. In addition, he is subject to harassment laws if he disturbs us too much by showing multiple times. I typed this up in a nice letter and sent it off. Well this put the fear of Starr into him and he came sniveling around Rena the other day like a dog with his tail between his legs. He must have realized that he just screwed himself on us being nice and letting him show during the prime hours. I am more than prepared to allow him to show on the weekends, for a nominal fee. I read about a couple of guys doing that on the web. It will teach him for being a dick to us from the get go.

So that brings us back to why Thursday was a short night. We only had enough time to take out the trash and sort the Ikea cabinets (we were only missing one door thing and 4 hinges which amazed me). Then we had to go home and clean up the place because he wants to show on Friday. I made sure to build every packing box that we had in the house and place it in front of closets and doors to cause as much problem as possible. I know it is a little passive aggressive, but we have enough stuff to worry about without having to think about the types of mouthbreathers that he is caravanning through our pad.

He finally rented the place above us this week, and those morons were up until 1:00 dropping things on the floor over our bed. At least we had a month of quiet when dumb and dumber moved out. So his track record for renting to jackholes is unbroken. .....stop looking at Rena and I like that.

Hopefully he gets the message and backs off (he is showing the place to 4 people today which I think verges on harassment). Luckily for him, Rena is going to be there today to watch him. When I am there, I am more than prepared to be sitting on the couch in my boxers watching porn and scratching myself when he shows up.

Tonight: we build cabinets.