Moving is always a bitch!

Well, my apartment is packed in neat little (some big) boxes.  I have to call the movers today.  I was going to do it all myself but I just don't have the energy or the manpower.  I am so glad that Lacey will be legal this time.  This is the first time that she has not been legal and let me tell you it has been a hard row to hoe.  Many non-dog people do not understand that she is a responsibility like a child.  She is not a couch that I don't have room for.  I can't just get rid of her.  True enough, I was looking for someone to take her while I finished this lease but no one came to hers or my rescue so I had to take matters into my own hands and move to a place that accepted dogs.  I will be paying the same amount of rent as I do here and will get my own bedroom and my own bath.  

Unfortunately, My roommate here wants to move as well.  This really has been a shitty apartment.  This means instead of me finding him a roommate and paying rent until that person is found, (which is very easy to do in Austin at this location) I have to pay penalties that will probably cost more than staying in this apartment.  Staying is not an option because they have said too many times that I have to get rid of the dog because they no longer accept pets.  I refuse to come home and find that they have taken my dog or to find an eviction letter on my door.  I don't think that some people realize that this is reality.  

I don't mind paying whatever I have to pay but I do not want to suffer over it.  As soon as I say okay that sounds good.  Something changes and I end up having to pay something different.  My roommate here has been one of the best roommates I have ever had.  There is no way that I could share this apartment with any other person.  He is a descent and fair man.  Unfortunately his girl friend, who I like, is a young child and clouds his rational thinking and keeps him indecisive on so many issues.  She is not who I have a contract with and I do not want to hear her opinion on the matter.  He is an adult and can speak for himself.  She said that this was a great opportunity to see how things will work when they are married and I could not agree more.  Inevitably, I have to pay what I have to pay and I am okay with that.  

The TAA is the worst company and if I am ever rich, I will do my best to try and put them out of business.  People need protection much more than a building.  I think if we all burned up in their shitty apartments, their first thought would be how much money are we going to get from the insurance, when can we rebuild and how fast can we put new tenants in.  There would be no shed tear for the person.  Transient apartment dwellers do not have a voice because of their temporary status.  I plead for the government to start looking at this a little more realistically and ethically.  These apartments are always full.  If I leave and pay a penalty and they find someone else or I find someone else to fill the apartment, I shouldn't have to remain responsible for this apartment until the end of the lease.  The contract should be broken because two contracts on the same apartment should be illegal.  I am ranting now on my blog because I go and see them in 30 minutes.  Hopefully, I can approach everything with a calm and rational spirit.  At least I am not having to deal with Barbara, the old manager, she would say one thing one day and it would be totally different the next.  The other thing is I signed a roommate addendum saying that I was living here which also constitutes as a binding contract of which I was totally unaware.

I am going to think positively about this.  I will be out of this shit hole with a legal dog, my own bedroom, my own bathroom, a nice community and a nice roommate.  I am leaving this place in a nice way by succumbing to all of their demands and I am hoping to make my schedule more compact by living further from the college.  So many wonderful and positive changes are happening because of this.  Yea!