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[chhotii]

Picking up some plastic containers from the old place turned out to be a much bigger deal than expected.

The plan was to take a final pass at moving out of the kitchen this evening. The rest of the house was emptied out before the floor sanders started working on Monday, but the kitchen was supposed to be the one place our stuff could stay. We had removed our big things from the kitchen, and I had packed up very obviously useful stuff such as dishes and metro shelving, but we hadn't gone over the kitchen in detail. Going back tonight was to give Sweetie a chance to look over the unmatched dishes and odds-and-ends that I hadn't packed to see if any of it had sentimental value; and then, after Soc had taken whatever he wanted, to grab a load of stuff which, while all totally replaceable, there was no sense in wasting-- plastic storage containers, paper plates, plastic forks, paper towels, cleaning supplies, tea bags, coffee filters etc., plus whatever booze left in the bar Sweetie thought was worth keeping. (I sure didn't know what booze to pack and what to throw away, I tend to regard hard liquor a waste of good brain cells, better expended drinking wine.)

We got there and 1) everything in the kitchen had been dumped, helter-skelter, into boxes and dragged to the garage, and 2) the apartment door lock had been changed. Sweetie was furious. I was ready to say oh screw the plastic containers and walk away from the whole mess, but he wasn't going to take this lying down. He actually called the cops; calling the cops prompted the landlord to relent and let us back into the kitchen. Fortunate, since Soc's expensive wine collection was still inside the house.

Poor Soc, he's going to have to sort through the pile in the garage and separate out the junk we had intended to leave from the stuff he had packed up move. They mixed it all together into a huge overwhelming mess.

Comments

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

hey, you should attempt to charge the landlord reverse security/damanges.

you own that apt, until the very last 5 minutes. changing the locks? outrageous.

you could take him for $500 in hourly time in small claims i'd guess.

what an idiot.

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[koshmom.livejournal.com]

Excellent move, calling the cops. You now have proof in a court of law that your ex landlord has evicted you unlawfully before your lease was up. Did you get the name of the police officer who was there? did they enter with you? a police officer makes an EXCELLENT witness!