As Good a Deal as I Could Get?

The hearing took place at the Rental Board this afternoon. The judge tried to get the parties concerned to reach an agreement before the actual hearing would have to take place. I had already sent the landlord a letter saying that I would not renew my lease when it expired on June 30, 2009. This formed the basis of the agreement. I stated that I would not renew my lease when it expired on June 30, 2009, and the landlord stated that he would not try to sue me for the $15,000 to $20,000 damages that he claimed I had done to the apartment by living there for so long. This agreement will now be made into a binding judgment which will allow me to stay in the apartment until June 30, but not any longer than that. So I'm in a better position than I have been for months.

The picture at the top of this blog entry shows the computer used to write these blog entries. It was taken with a Polaroid camera, and the lens was not that good, but it shows you what I have to work with when I write these blogs.

I suppose that I should be thankful that I can use a "Flock" browser, which works reasonably quickly even with a computer with a CPU of only 333 MHz. With this particular computer, Firefox 3 is about as fast as a lumbering elephant.

Not Out of the Woods Yet

The judgment posted in the previous blog entry merely entitled me to a new hearing. This shows you where we are now:

The Decision on the Revocation of the Judgment

The decision mentioned in the last couple of blog entries is finally online. Here it is:

Some Success, but Mercury still has a Good Laugh

I assume that the retrograde Mercury was responsible for a large part of what happened to me tonight. I was busy waiting for the decision from the Rental Board to arrive in the mail. I finally went down and picked up the mail. Yup. There it was. A letter from the Rental Board. With trepidation, I opened the envelope, and extracted the piece of paper inside. It seemed a bit thin for a judgment. I had a bit of trouble reading the French, and then I realized why. What I was reading was not the judgment, but information telling me how a judgment could be appealed. But where was the judgment? I checked the torn envelope I had already thrown into the wastepaper basket, but there was nothing else in it. It appeared to me that they had mailed me the judgment letter without including the judgment itself.

Putting it all down to more garbage to deal with being caused by Mercury being retrograde, I decided that I would make myself a cup of coffee, and then write a blog entry about the situation. It was at that point that I noticed something weird about the stuff on the desk where I dumped the mail. I noticed the back of a staple which was holding several sheets of paper together. There should not have been anything like that in that spot. I checked the sheets of paper, and sure enough, there it was! The judgment! I somehow had managed to remove it from the envelope without even being aware of doing so.

I read the judgment, and found that I had had some success. The judgment of November 27 had been revoked, and a new hearing was ordered to be held. So it looks like I won't get dumped into the streets in the middle of winter no matter what else happens.

So I guess at least it ended well - at least for now.