As we age we tend to see life in less nuanced terms. I'm not saying that life is a series events seen in a black or white color spectrum. What I'm saying is that as we grow over time and add to our book of experience we learn to filter out the BS and Misdirection that others want us to accept without thought.
CC and I have a mutual friend who has been living in the same apartment for over fifteen years and has seen their rent go up while the quality of apartment life has diminished, both in maintenance and in the people management rents to. It's gotten to the point where an increasing number of apartments in the development are now leased under Section 8 rules. The new tenants are not known for their social skills and inter-personal relations so our friend has decided to move on and rent a house,
Their lease on the apartment runs out in October and they can move into their new (and safer) home in September. You would hope that after many years of complaint free living that management would honor their presence and defer the last month of their lease. Not to be ... and they will most likely have to pay for the Octobers rent while also paying for their new place.
I do a lot of landlord/tenant mediation and my experience has been that as the quality of the apartment and the tenants goes down the probity of the parties diminishes to an even greater degree. Owners don't maintain the property and occupants resist paying rent and maintaining their home. What follows is that the parties don't trust each other and social relationships disappear. These situations gives me lots of work, but it's not work I enjoy since it really brings out the worst in people.
Our friend is doing the right thing. Leave for a better environment and don't look back!
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