Farewell TO

Since my last post many events have taken place that maybe could warrant two more posts, but who am I kidding..I clearly don't have much enthusiasm for keeping up this blog now. I last mentioned that I was strongly thinking about moving home soon. Well after much consideration and the purchase of a plane ticket, I'm going home on March 20th...Yes, that's in 3 days.

Since the end of February I've been looking for someone to sublet my room. After finding someone a week ago and having the landlord scour over all of her information, I was under the impression everything was going to work out just fine. But when I travel..nothing ever does just work out fine.

So, four days before I'm supposed to leave, my landlord just decides that the girl who is supposed to move in is unacceptable. She had references but they weren't what he wanted, so when I gave him the reference he wanted, he refused to even call it because there was this invisible deadline that had already passed and he was unwillingly to change his mind. But in his words it was "we can't accept someone into our home who we've already rejected." Well...I think you can actually..it's called changing your mind. But nevertheless in his eyes "the relationship has been terminally challenged..'poisoned' might not be the right word, but you know what I mean." I didn't know what he meant and after many many emails back and forth I still have no idea how this man can be called a human being.

There's a clause in the Landlord and Tenant Board of Ontario that says that a landlord may refuse a sublet applicant, but if the tenant feels that the landlord is being unreasonable, they may file an application for a hearing. Basically a landlord is not allowed to refuse the tenant the ability to sublet, and if they do you can take it up with the Board. I even quoted the passage in my last email to my landlord saying I have no desire to deal with the Board, but there is no valid reason for not allowing this girl to sublet. Of course, that didn't faze him one bit..he didn't even acknowledge that passage in his reply, but actually just told me that all of this is my fault for wanting to break the lease. I've explained many times that I can't find work and don't have money, but he's convinced I'm moving to ruin his life.

So after all that, I've started to look for another person, this time a male since we think he likes to bully females, and my roommates will help if I can't find someone before I leave.

Oh, and I left out the greatest part about this which is that when the girl applicant called him to get an explanation (she was justifiably angry) he told her to talk to me, that he would call the police and just hung up. Then he called me and told me he was receiving "harassing phone calls" from this girl and to make her stop calling him. He was apparently afraid for his life after getting a call from a tiny asian girl.

Good Riddance Canada.