| Anger Arises |
[29 Apr 2008|08:58am] |
Dear Tenants,
We have been on tenterhooks for the last nine months, waiting to see whether you really had the ability to pay as you promised last autumn or whether you imagined you would get the money from a mortgage company, in which case we would get the school back this spring since it's obvious to the meanest intelligence that no mortgage company would provide such a loan. Nine months of "do we plan for having money, or for moving back into the school?"
Now, nine months after you said you could pay "within days," you give us THREE DAYS in which to tell you whether you may prolong your payments or get out? My, aren't we in a hurry all of a sudden, now that it's your life thrown into an unplannable state instead of ours?
We'll think about it.
Love and kisses,
us
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| Or At Least Amazement |
[29 Apr 2008|09:03am] |
I guess I'm not so much irked as stunned. And really only by their needing an answer within three days, after having kept us utterly uninformed for nine months. It seems...unkind. OTOH I'm sure from their point of view it seems only reasonable; they need to know by 2 May, and we didn't need to know till 31 May. So really they've told us more than a month before they needed to.
And we're in a quandary, whether to let them continue paying for the school piecemeal or whether to kick them out so we can move back in. Or, of course, relist it on eBay and insist on a cash sale this time. (We actually turned down a couple of cash buyers because we thought the present tenants would be a better fit for the town. Our mistake. Most of the townsfolk have never even met them. This in a town of 150 people max -- It's hard not to meet anyone for nine whole months in a town that size!)
And we didn't realize, when we left, how much we would miss living in the school and in that town. Not that it's a constant fuss or anything, but to our very surprise we have not liked it here and would really like to be back there.
OTOH we really can't leave this job till December and might ought to stay another year after that, and if the tenants haven't fixed the roof (which we have no reason to believe they have done, though they were supposed to), there'd be that to worry about again.
It is to sigh. What to do?
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