So, this Sunday, April 8th, I came home from a long day of wrangling cattle in the streets of Philadelphia. My feet were sore, my back was killing me, I had rope burns on my hands.

Opening my door, I looked down to see a non descript envelope sitting on the floor. "That's odd," I thought to myself. My back creaking, I reached down to pick it up. Inside was a letter on stationery indicating that it was from Octavia Hill, the company that owns my apartment building.

"Oh, perhaps they are giving me free rent for the duration of my lease," I thought hopefully. Little did I know that hope had forsaken my apartment.

The letter informed me that this was the third attempt to reach me concerning the issue at hand. "How strange," I thought, "I have not enjoyed any correspondence with my beloved landlords for nearly a month now. I wonder what this could be."

Continuing on, the letter proceeded to warn me of AN EMERGENCY in my apartment, which was going to require EMERGENCY construction, IMMEDIATELY. It would prevent me from having access to my bathroom and closet area for 5-7 business days. This construction was due to begin... April 9th!?!?!?!?! ***The next day!!!***

"Oh no they *di'int*!" I shouted indignantly to myself, snapping my fingers in the outline of the letter "Z" (or "Zed" as they call it in certain uncivilized areas of the world).

The next morning at 9:30 AM a construction crew and my property manager were at the door. I had a few words with my property manager face to face, and her demon master on the phone, and got them to postpone the construction for a day so I could, you know, move my stuff.

Monday was spent moving everything I own into my kitchen, and my hygienic supplies into the vacant apartment that they gave me to use as a gigantic bathroom (I fill it with water and bathe on the floor, it's awesome).

Tuesday I went to school as usual. When I came back home, I was greeted with the sight of my entire apartment ripped to pieces, as if by some great unthinking beast. That is where our pictorial journey begins...

My floorboards have been ripped up, giving me a unique view of the unfinished basement beneath the building.

This used to be the door to my bathroom. They ripped half of the wall out too.

Old floorboards and a door.. You know what *should* be there? MY BED.

My toilet, tub, and sink are sitting in the middle of my bedroom. Right in front of the front door.

A piece of plastic sheeting covers my kitchen... why don't we crawl under and see what's inside?

Oh yeah, my bed!

And everything I own!

i see a giant mumble.

i have one of those.

what a bunch of tools....thought they were just working on the bathroom + closet?

why in the world would someone need to "reconstruct" a bathroom and a closet?

to steal his mildew?

oh and what's an idol of moonpenguin doing in your kitchen?

LoL

That sucks!! You dont have a boathroom... KITCHEN??? HOW DO YOU EAT MAN!???

The support beams under the bathroom/closet area were rotting, so the floor needed to be torn up and the beams replaced. Unfortunately the basement has tons of pipes running through it so they would not be able to work from below. And I wouldn't have been able to have access to that area anyway since there would be no floorboards.

And yeah it pisses me off that my whole apartment is full of crap now... but they need a place to put it all. The part that really pisses me off is they wanted to do this on 12 hours notice... and no consideration for what I was going to do with my bed and stuff.

As for the kitchen, it's really annoying to try to walk around in, I certainly do not cook atm, but I moved stuff around so I at least have access to my fridge. Eating a lot of junk and 7-11 sandwiches. Fortunately I mainly eat at the dining hall on campus at school anyway to save money.

And yep, Mumble is hanging out with me for a while until I have a chance to give him to the person I bought him for.

Ask for free rent... that should be totally acceptible with what you have to do now living in your kitchen.

Hells yes, my letting agents gave me a week rent free for less than that. Just argue that since you're unable to use 90% of the apartment, why should you pay for the whole thing?

7-11 has some awesome sandwhiches...

Their tuna used to be better :(

hows the work coming along, skull?

They came in today (Saturday) when they weren't scheduled to, in order to get it done faster. So I appreciate that.

Yikes, sounds familiar. The last place I lived in had an issue with the tub surround in the bathroom. I explained it was almost gone, and the previous tenant had let it go and the walls were filled with mildew(inside walls). No kidding i'd clean it up and it would be back in a day. Anyways I warned them about it for 6 months while I resealed my tub etc. Well the ceiling downstairs collapsed and mildew water fell in on my neighbor below me. My landlord suddenly had an issue and explained he needed to tear up my entire bathroom and I couldn't use it, and I basically couldn't use the apartment because of the crews that would be there all day and night. He suggested I stay at a friends place for a few days, I suggested he give me my deposit and pay for the current months rent and i'd be leaving. When it was politely explained to him i'm directly related to the senior partner of one of the largest law firms in the area, he agreed with me and off I went.

Remember skull you have legal recourse with the housing authority, there are far more laws protecting tenants, then protecting landlords. Get a free months rent.

Yep, I will be going to the company's office this coming week to file complaint and ask for just that.

Skull, remember what your sig used to say, "I PVP in real life"

Haha, it didn't say that, it said "Yes, I pwn faces IRL" but I like that one a lot too... I'll have to use it somewhere

Regardless Skull, you gotta break some skulls. Or at least dropkick the landlord's babies out of a window. Nosebiter can probably join you. He can bite the noses of your enemies, while you break their skulls, and I'll stand by drunk and cheerin you guys on.

I'll provide the hooch for Leecho and I

I'll provide a cynical running commentary?

Look at my tiny apartment... I can't afford to transport you all out here :P

So they fix your crib yet Skull?