My Landlord tried to evict me. Again. (NWR)

Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2009 12:01 PM

This is not the first time I have found a slip of paper slid under my door requesting I leave, pay and/or seek legal council.  It's actually my third.

As I was tidying up around the apt. last week I picked up a coat I had lazily cast aside one night, several days prior.  Beneath it I found the latest edition of management's notice to evict.  The crime (as always) was non-payment.  And as it has also been before, it was not my fault.  This, however, is not the perspective of my landlord.  She, in all her wisdom, believes that system does not fail - while I have ample evidence to the contrary.

Like the time that I paid before going overseas for the last two weeks of the month and dropped off my rent check before I left.  They mailed that one back to the address in the corner of the check (clearly an address at which I no longer resided) because it was paid too early. 

Like the time that she firmly - but politely - INSISTED that they had not received my rent check after I had placed it in the drop box the week before.  I explained that I had no problem with paying them but I wondered what they would do with the 1st check once they found it.  Again, she firmly - but politely - insinuated I was a liar as they are extremely thorough. If there was a check to be found, they would have located it.  Three hours later they called to inform me the check had been found.  In the safe.  Naturally there was no need for an apology, and I never heard one.

But these archaic days of checks and drop boxes have since been put behind us and I now have the option to pay by automatic withdrawal online.  And all was well for many months until just recently when they, again, failed to claim their payment.  This time it was a known glitch in the system.  I was auto identified as up for a lease renewal, which somehow causes the system to occasionally stop taking payments.  Such was my case, and my debts were forgiven.  And while it seems to me that this is something they could have investigated on their own BEFORE threatening legal action against me ... oh well.  C'est la vie. 

At least this time I received an apology.

- Bride