I'm tired and I want to go back to bed :( (probably moving again).

[ET Awful]

I'm trying to decide whether to move or not, I found an apartment I like (just as new as what I'm in now, but unlike the current one, you actually can't hear your neighbor through the wall, we tested it. The leasing agent cranked the stereo in one unit and we walked over to the next unit . . . couldn't hear a thing. In fact, we couldn't hear between one room and the next in the same unit :).

So, I think I'm going to move, but I'm stressed about how to deal with the old landlord and get out of the lease (thus my level of tiredness I couldn't sleep for shit last night).

Anyway, the new place is just as nice as the current one, but lacks the huge windows. Only one medium size window in the living room and one in the bedroom, BUT heating and a/c are included in the rent, it has an extra room (so a bedroom, a study, a bathroom, and a kitchen that opens into the living room). The rent is about $60 more than what I'm paying now, but that's balanced out by the free heat and a/c so it'll cost me the same, plus I get to park in a parking garage so I don't have to clean off my windows in the winter :).

I've pretty much descided to do it, it's just a matter of figuring out logistics and money. I mean . . . do I try and move at the end of August (I've just missed the 30 days notice deadline, but the lease is set to renew on Sept. 1), or do I talk to the current landlord tell them that I am going to rescind my renewal since it hasn't gone into effect yet, but ask them to let me stay through the end of September and move in to the new place on Oct. 1?

Decisions decisions decisions.

[cleofus1]

1. i hate moving

but sometimes you have to go out with the tide...

[ET Awful]

2. Yeah, I really like my apartment, but they did a very poor job

of blocking noise between apartments. I can hear my freakin' neighbor fart for Christ's sake.

Oh well.

Hopefully it won't be too much of a pain to wiggle out of the lease renewal.

[cleofus1]

3. so horrible...

but i could not stop laughing....

[ET Awful]

8. That was the goal :)

Actually I can't honestly say I've ever heard my neighbor fart. But I can hear them cough, I can hear some of their conversations as if they were in the same room, and when the lady in the apartment to the right of mine makes a pot of tea, I hear the kettle whistle.

[Mutley]

4. I'm moving, too.

On August 12. I can't wait. Except my SO keeps packing up stuff I need, like my antibiotics (which I was told 6 times by my dentist to take them until they are gone, or the infection could come back). He packed the antibiotics and he can't remember which box they are in. :mad: He kills me sometimes.

[ET Awful]

11. Grrrr.

Good luck finding the antibiotics :)

[Mutley]

13. Thanks.

He did that with my school notebook, and my favorite pen, too. He went a little berserk yesterday.

[ET Awful]

14. Did he pack like I did the first time I ever moved . . .

Just get the biggest box you can find and throw everything into it (the boxes end up weighing about 200 pounds each) and hope it doesn't collapse when you put it on the dolly?

:evilgrin:

[Mutley]

15. Lol... no we're just the opposite.

We have 8 million little tiny boxes.

[ixion]

5. if the lease expires at the end of August, just don't renew and move

that should work okay, no? :shrug:

You don't need to give 30 days if moving at the end of the lease. It's implied that unless you renew, you ARE moving. Shouldn't be a big deal at all.


Never worry about hurting a landlord's feelings by moving. You're buying the house for them... you're doing them a favor. ;-)

[ET Awful]

6. That's the thing though, I already signed the renewal, so I need to

talk to them about rescinding the renewal. It shouldn't be a big deal really.

[ixion]

7. ah, yeah, that's a bit tougher

but if your landlord isn't a total creep they should understand. Hope it goes okay for you. :hi:

[ET Awful]

10. Thanks.

If they want to be assholes about it, I'll just bring up the fact that they have unvented garbage rooms on each floor so the halls stink when you get off the elevators, and the fact that I've complained about noise numerous times to no avail.

I don't think they'll want to fight it too much. The leasing agent at the new place told me that if they fight it just to tell them "Hey, I'm moving, I'm not paying you any more money, if you want to begin eviction action go ahead" and that it would cost them so much to do so, they'd just drop it :) (and this guy has been in the business for over 20 years, he knows the ins and outs) :).

[TheMightyFavog]

9. I'm moving in September...

Back to the dorms. At least I'll be in the building with an elevator this time.

[ET Awful]

12. Actually, that's kind of what the current apartment reminds me of

is cheap dorms. Like . . . really really old cheap dorms. Even though these units are new, it's like paper thin walls everywhere you turn.