A day of stress

I go and pay my rent today and my landlord, the new guy, accuses us of not paying rent. So I go home and search for the emails I sent the management company. I find them, and send them to my laptop to print them. I drop them off.

A couple of hours later, I go back to talk to him and again, he accuses me of not paying rent - specifically Feb 2007. We had bounced a cheque, but made good on the rent before the end of that month. Yes, we are behind from last month, but this one is supposed to be paid up. I promised to work on paying off the arrears from last month. Anyway, he shows that we never paid back in Feb 07. Which makes me mad, because we had, including the NSF charge they gave us. After all, his boss gave me an eviction notice and it was one where if we did not pay up in 10 days, we'd be evicted. If I hadn't paid, we would have been then. That should be proof, right?

The problem is that back when we first moved in, someone made a mistake in accounting and applied August's rent for July even though we didn't live here in July, except for the last two days. When we moved in, there was no heat, no hot water, no fridge - that arrived the next day. We were missing drawers in the kitchen and there was a broken stair that still hasn't been fixed. There was no smoke alarm and more.

Now, the smoke alarm doesn't work, and I've been accused of not paying that rent. An accounting error! Since they applied August to July, we therefore didn't pay August until we paid for September, and so forth. Which got me mad when the original nasty letter came in.

So the landlord and I get into an argument. I'm furious. He's showing me that the previous landlady made a mistake in her records or something. The problem is that it all balances to show that we had paid. Its because the amount is in the accounting papers, not the records they keep seperate. So he's going to go through the tons of receipts - she didn't always give them - and see if there was a receipt issued for February 07.

I am thinking about going to residential tenancy over it. And if I do, I'm going to claim stress for being on threat of eviction for two years has added to my stress level and more. I'm going to go for monetary compensation because there have been other broken promises by the management company. Half the units look to be unrented too, and I sure as hell will not be paying a penny for them to renovate the place so they can charge more for these crappy, mold ridden places.

Then DS started to act up when he got home from school. Then again, he started it when he got up this morning. He had a temper tantrum over going to school, so this morning started bad anyway for us.

When he gets home from school, I swear he brings chaos in behind him. Its as if he is an agent of chaos. He continously breaks the "no food upstairs" rule. I found crushed cereal - corn pops - in my bed. My Bed! Yes, there is a tv in my room and yes, the kids can watch it, but they aren't supposed to be eating there. Or playing. Or throwing clothes around. Just sit and watch tv.

So he got punished. And he threw a tantrum. And more. I told him he has to 1: listen to me, 2: obey me, 3: follow my rules, and 4: do the dishes for the next "two" weeks so he can go on the school field trip. The entire school is going to go see "Horton Hears a Who." They've rented out the entire theatre. If he throws a single tantrum between now and the 10th, he is not going.

Then there's the girls. Baby can get over babygates now so they aren't useful anymore. She has bad diaper rash still and I'm trying an anti-excema cream to see if that will help since none of the diaper rash creams I've used have helped. While DD was into a serious "no" phase today.

And to top it off, my laptop died. The worst part is that it had all the wedding photos on it. At least I had copied them onto His laptop over the weekend. But still... I'm just a bit upset.

Thank goodness my old desktop still works.

Stress? Today? oh yah... Let's hope I get a good night's sleep...