Hanging on by a nail

We were in Edmonton yesterday, for a portion of the assesment. It went well. The last remaining portion will be finished on Monday, with a home visit from the assessor.

Kyle is a jack ass from hell. (and other bulletins from the department of obvious)

My family has been planning a reunion at my mom's place for more than a year. Matty and Les and their girls are flying up from Colorado. The girls and I haven't seen the twins for nearly 2 years now......
I informed my lawyer back in March of 07 that I wanted the Aug 3 weekend with the girls for this reunion.
Kyle paid for a week of summer camp for the girls begining on Aug 3. He insists that since, in regular access rotation, Aug 3 is HIS weekend, therefore he MUST have the girls. My lawyer and I returned correspondance indicating..."too bad, so sad, suck it up princess". Now Kyle has decided that he will take me to court to have the judge rule on who gets the weekend. My lawyer says that though usual proceedure is to not follow regular rotation in the summer, since one of the interested parties requests it, the judge will no doubt rule for it. Also, if I don't provide the girls to him for Aug 3, they are prepared to sue me for their costs.

What to do, what to do? Oh, hey, here's an idea. If Kyle is going to insist that he have the girls that weekend because it's his regular weekend, fine, he knows very well there is a reunion, and the girls have spoken about nothing but the twins for months, if he wants to prevent that relationship from occuring just for some stupid camp that a little communication from him, could have saved the conflict over, then he can forget the other dates he has booked with the girls. Why, because all of them are on MY regular rotation weekends.

I dunno man, All i drink is water and these freaky things keep happening!

In other news, I'm hot.
It's scorching in this dump!
Speaking of dump. I recieved a notice under my apartment door on wednesday morning, sometime after 8 but before 10 am. It stated that there was to be an investor coming to view all the units and to please have them showable quality by 7 pm that same evening.
I had plans that day and refused to cancel them to stay in my sweltering apartment to clean it.....especially without the legally required 24 hour entry notice.
I wrote my concerns on the back of the landlord's letter, and posted it on my door. I explained that this was not recieved 24 hours in advance of the showing, that I would not allow entrance of the investors on such short notice, and that the maintenence concerns I have had for 9 months have not been taken care of, so likely the investor would not want to see the disrepair anyway.

Fast forward to evening, the girls, Faron and I are outside trying to catch a breeze, when a realtor comes and introduces himself to us and asks if we want a dinner for 4, in exchange for allowing investors in to view the suite. Apparently, he wanted to show at least two units, and no one else had let him in either.
I declined and explained why, ie:maintenance concerns and lack of 24 hour notice.
He later brought the investors to the back to view the exterior of the building, then left.
Thursday morning around 10 am. I recieved a phone call from my landlord. He was shouting and swearing at me for not letting the investors in and for criticizing his management (i didn't) and that you don't decline entry when the investors are standing right there (i didn't) and that the notice was given for delievery to *his guy* at 6:30pm on tuesday and that I probably just didn't see it under my door and I was lying about when it arrived. (i didn't) I explained to him that we did not mistake the time it was delievered. He cut me off shouting and swearing more saying that I am a liar and that he'll prove it by delivering the next notice himself. (fine by me, try hand delievery or a phone call to ensure reciept of information, that's your job not mine).
He continued to shout at me, not allowing me to explain myself, just venting a rage at me, so I handed the phone to Faron so he could hear what I was being subjected to. Faron said "you should watch your tone". The landlord asked if he was on the lease, Faron repeated the tone bit. The landlord shouted, "you guys just got a rent increase". 2 hours later, a notice was taped to my door saying that my rent just increased by $500 due Nov 1 2007. New rent is $1100 for this two bedroom leaky dump. Not Farking likely that I'll be paying that!
The reasons given were pet concerns, laundry complaints, parking complaints, late rent payments and an extra person living here. Pet concerns, ok. Laundry and parking complaints came from me regarding other tenants, NOT vice versa. There is no extra person living here, Faron just happened to be here for that call....apparently instead of noting that the witness to his abuse could have been a visitor, he automatically went to, someone not on the lease living there. (smart like ball bearings). All my late rent payments were cleared by Robert prior to them being late, I always called and asked and arranged a later date for them.....so that's not a valid issue either.


In addition, he will evict me immediately if I ever speak to anyone else about his management and will charge me with slander and defamation. OK THEN!
First, it's not slander if it's true, second, I didn't ever slander him or accuse him of poor management. I merely stated the maintenece issues I had that have not been addressed, and he took that as a stab at his poor management.....feelings of guilt perhaps? Me thinks thou doest protest over much, darling landlord!

Lastly, more Kyle crap. He happened to have his usual phone call with the girls while we were still in Edmonton, and was dully informed of that fact by the girls. Who he immediately pumped for information as to why and what we were doing....not one question, 8 questions....and he accuses me of grilling the girls! He then told Jaala that she should stop over at his place for a visit. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Just what do we know would happen if I showed up at his house? The swat team would arrive.
No kidding. So he puts the idea in Jaala's head, she asks me, and I say no, and I'm the bad guy, cause daddy said it was ok and I won't let her.
What a guy.

That's all folks.