| | My habit has been to post in shotgun style, standing back and surveying what has occurred, writing little about all of it, and having it spread like the spray out of the gun. I hope not to do that.
Things have been great. The quick catch up will simply be that things have proceeded in normal fashion. My job is still a job. I still make sure people pay their medical bills and enter those payments into the computer (I wish I could say it was more complex than that...it isn't). Meagan is still enjoying her job in the appraisal world. Unlike most of this nation, the housing market here isn't dead. It slowed down, but nothing tanked. Which brings us to our next thought...
I had a funny incident a few weeks ago with our apartment manager. We knew some of the behind the scenes things going on in the apartment world because a friend of ours is VP of one of the large management companies in the area. Because of that knowledge, we knew that our apartment was up for sale. Our friend's company did research on "market value" for what rent was per unit here, and lo and behold, ours was under that MV. If we were to be bought, by anyone, rent was most likely going to go up. Weeks went by, and we hadn't heard anything about the sale from our complex...but we knew, according to our friend, that their company had been undercut and worked over by someone, and that some company had bought us. I was a little concerned about what that meant for us (we had also heard friends' apartment complexes raised their rent) and our pocketbook, so I called our manager and the conversation went a bit like this. "Hey (manager). I have a few questions for you.""Ok, what's up?""Have we been bought out yet?""No, we haven't.""Alright, then secondly, has our rent gone up for this next year?""We don't know that yet. Our company hasn't decided yet if it will go up or not for next year.""So, we haven't been sold and we our rent hasn't gone up?""Nope.""Ok, thanks (manager)." Not even one week later, we receive a letter on our door, stating that we had been sold to another company. Come to find out, our manager wasn't lying. The higher management didn't tell anyone. My call prompted her to ask her boss, hey, someone in our complex is asking if we were sold; were we? With their tail between their legs, they told her that they were and were "waiting for the right time to tell everyone." The staff here got the shaft, being told to move on site and keep their jobs or start looking elsewhere. That same manager, who really is a great gal, told Meagan that she wanted to apologize for me because she wasn't lying but it did seem like it, and, by the way, our rent is going up 100 a month. ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!? 100 bucks MORE a month? We are already paying a good deal, so 100 more way pricey. So we are looking...
Peace.
-andrew
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| | Posted 3/24/2008 9:10 AM - 74 views - 1 comments
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