Not Again?

A couple of years ago, hubby and I came home one day and discovered an envelope from our land lady, I said jokingly "Dear P and H, you are being evicted...." And I had to open my big mouth (granted, what other possible reason will you landlady send you a snail mail?). It turned out that her husband had passed away (very sorry) and she wanted to sell her place. Of course, chit happens. I'm sure if she had a say in this whole matter she'd rather her husband still be around. We had a vacation planned in less than a month and not wanting them showing the place while we were gone, we frantically found a place and moved out within three weeks.

A coworker of mine commented how evil it was for the landlady to ask us to leave but I disagreed with him. A lease was a contract, so I believed at the time, after a lease had expired, both parties had the right to terminate the lease. Why is it considered okay for the tenants to move out but not the landlady needing her place back? In all honest, the rent was way under market value, so we kept the place as pristine as possible.

Then we decided to move to an apartment. I figured that unless they are going to convert an apartment to a condo (common in the bay area before the collapse of the housing market) or the building being condemned, we should be able to live in an apartment till we choose to leave.... I was only half right. Due to the haste, it turned out the apartment wasn't as good as we had initially thought, so we had to move again after our 9-month lease was up.

This new apartment my husband and I both love, and we are being "forced out" again!! They wanted us to transfer to a different unit so they can upgrade our apartment, so essentially they are just going to raise the rent and refuse to renew the lease with us till we move. What are the odds of being evicted TWICE?? And it wasn't even because we are bad tenants!!

I am just too tired to move. My cat is 13 years old this year and our (her) next move is going to be her 13th move! On average she had moved with me once a year of her 13 years of life. Good God!

Let's count the 13 times:

Got cat
#1 - moved to a bigger apartment in same complex with old boyfriend
#2 - moved to summer sublease
#3 - roommates from hell at sublease, moved to new boyfriend's place
#4 - moved to new apartment after summer was over
#5 - graduated college, moved to new house rental
#6 - bought house with current husband
#7 - relocated to San Diego with husband
#8 - moved back to our house
#9 - moved to bay area
#10 - evicted from nice rental to not-so-good apartment
#11 - moved from not-so-good apartment to good apartment

Oh, I counted wrong, this next one is only going to be her TWELVE move, not thirteen... Maybe with this housing slum we can actually BUY a place and never be asked to leave again. :(