Meeting my witt's end.

I've neglected this poor blog, but not because of laziness. We've had a tumultuous last 2 months and it's all culminated to where we are now...a giant mess.

Since around May, we've been itchin' to get out of our house that we rent. The neighborhood has been deteriorating and things have been happening that have made us VERY uncomfortable here. So we started looking at other places to live. Then in June, our landlord came into our house a few times while we were in Philly, and took stuff from our fridge WITHOUT ASKING. Now, had he asked, I totally would have said "Sure! No problem, help yourself!" But, the principle of what he did was highly illegal and technically broke the contract of our lease (he must give us 24 hours notice before he enters the property for ANY reason, except if he has a police officer with a warrant with him.) It was just creepy and didn't sit well with us. It was kind of the last straw with this place.

A few weeks ago, we lined something up for ourselves...it was seemingly terrific, not ideal, but definitely a vast improvement. We sat our extremely emotional/not-all-there landlord down and let him know. He was reluctant...and it ended up being slightly messy, as he wanted us here for at least two years (our lease was signed only for 1 year)...but we finally got him to agree to let us out at the end of August (even though our lease is up this July 31st...?). Well, we found out on Monday that the place we had lined up was actually spoken for, so we sat our landlord down again and let him know that we would be willing to stay...which he quickly shot down. Turns out he doesn't want us here because "our hearts aren't here, we don't love this place." He wants us out by September 1st.

So now, here we are...looking for another place....getting ready to move somewhere temporarily for a 6th time. We're trying to find somewhere with a short-term lease, as we're exploring some possible job transfers for Tim, and if they don't pan out, we'll buy a house up here in the spring. Preferably 3 bedrooms, but since we plan on being there short term we'd take a 2 bedroom place too. We DON'T want to be in an apartment complex...unless they offer a 6 month lease, and can let us go month to month after that. If you know of anything, please let us know!!! Thank you!