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The past week has been traumatic for a friend of Harvey's.
They got evicted from the house they'd been renting for the past 17 years.
The place they'd rented in a whirlwind turns out to not be owned by the person they paid and signed a lease with.
The cops, upon informing them of this, checked their ID and there was a bench warrant for her arrest!
If it weren't for bad luck, they'd have no luck at all?
Well...
Here's were I get to be judgemental.
For 15 of those 17 years it was her mother, not she or her husband, paying the bills because Mom inherited her husbands pension.
That pension did not transfer a second time.
For the past year, their landlord has been telling them they want out of the rental property game. The friend begged them for more time and got a year's reprieve.
For the past year and a half, it also appears that she was borrowing from Peter to pay Paul and had not paid the rent for months.
SIGH.
So they were evicted with cause.
They also squandered that reprieve and weren't even looking for a new place. Having more time to shop might have allowed them to avoid getting defrauded by a fake landlord.
But the real kicker is what the arrest warrant was.
Writing bad checks.
In Florida, a bad check for more than $150 is a 3rd degree Felony.
When her husband asked about this when she called from jail, she thought it was much older than it was. That kind of says that she's floated checks before to me.
Yikes! That can be up to five years and $1,000 in fines.
Even worse, her husband discovered that their bank account is overdrawn by $70 more than his check. Not only did he not have the money to pay for bail, the paycheck he was expecting this afternoon is already gone.
Harvey gave them the $180 for the bondsman and she should be home by now...
A home they have no right to reside in. With no money to secure a different place.
Even when I was couch surfing, I don't think I'd gotten this far down the hole.
Where is that dumpster fire graphic? Holy cow. Unfortunately my brother is as bad if not worse as far as self inflicted stupidity.
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I see the same thing in the apartment complex I live in. People don't pay their rent and then are astonished that they get evicted. People violate the lease in one way or another and they get evicted.
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It's one thing if they made all the right choices and yet due to circumstances have failed. Been there, done that, skated out of a bad situation by one month.
But to pile on and pile on the hope train and then skate checks big time and then wonder why the poop is falling everywhere? Um... yeah.
It's like those people who can't afford food or rent but can afford thousands for tats, booze, cigs, weed, drugs and other bad life choices. And then whine about how things are always bad for them.
Had one lady here, nice, kind of sweet, but... Yeah, put in prison for meth possession. Got out on good behaviour with charges erased if didn't violate probation. Violated probation 5 times, for meth. And then wondered why she couldn't get her voting rights back. Why she couldn't get custody of her kid. Why she lost a job when she didn't tell them about the drug use and arrest (when she would have been fine if she had been truthful.) But blames other people for all of her failures...
I have tried to be the nice guy about it. Council them about this. Telling them to seek help for their issues, to pay their rent first, to take care of their kids, to make better choices. But, well, time will tell.
Sadly, too many fail.
I've lived on $150 a month for food so I could pay the bills. And that's with having to buy special foods for my wife. But I chose and choose not to do stupid stuff with my money. Rent, utilities, meds, food for the wife, food for the dog, my food. Because that's what we're supposed to do when we're adults, right?