We will be homeless in 48 hours

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Where do I start? We will be homeless by this Sunday the 2nd of January, 2022.

I guess a healthy dose of humility and the admission that I feel as though I have failed my family.

Our income has been seriously impacted by Covid-19 since the beginning of this pandemic. However, even though through all of this, we managed to always pay our rent. After living here for one year and ten months our landlord got promoted back to this area with a “six-figure” income, and we live month to month.

We have raised two adopted boys for the last 11 years and have had custody of our grandson for the past 5 years. We have always strived to provide a strong and stable household for them, however now it has all come crashing down. We have put all our belongings in a storage unit and are preparing to see what living homeless is all about, unfortunately.

The following are some recent text messages:

My recent message to him:

[landlord name redacted],

Just to be 100% transparent, we thought we should let you know that all our attempts to apply for a rental house and apartments for rent have fallen through due to extremely high entry costs, i.e. credit scores >650, income 3x the rent, administrative fees, 1st/last month rent/security deposit, etc.

All this averages out to $5,000 to $6,000 just to get in the door and there is little to no apartment availability due to people facing the same issues, rental housing demands and prices have forced many to flood the apartment market to the point of saturation in Vancouver. We've tried and failed, unfortunately.

I attempted several times to let you know that we rely on our tax refunds to move which average around $8,000 to $10,000 in March to April timeframe. I realize the issue is self-inflicted as we were unwilling to sign a new lease last March for an increase in rent.

So to meet your requirements we've been forced to fill up a 10×15 storage unit with the household furniture/items and will be moved out by the 2nd of January 2022.

Cindy has adopted two boys who are now teenagers, we've had custody of her grandson for the past five years (he loves this home and the neighbors, he doesn't do well with change, he was born addicted to heroin from his mom, I'm a veteran from both gulf wars and we live paycheck to paycheck but we've always made sure you got the rent through the Covid-19 moratorium on eviction, yes we did slide on utilities but something had to give to ensure a roof over the kids head.

We will unfortunately be living in our vehicles with the children. Not to be a jerk but this opportunity for you to move back into your home, making 6 figures, as well, frankly destroyed our lives.

I apologize for laying all that out there. This is what we are going through.

-Jeremy & Cindy & Nick & Cody Jr.

Some of the responses we have received:

Hello Cindy and Jeremy,

Just a reminder

You've had 4 long months to prepare for this. You've signed a mutual agreement to move out and decided not to renew the lease. You were given free rent for December to comply with what we all legally signed and agreed to on September 8, 2021.

Move out checklist, date and time.

Sunday January 2, 2022

12:00 PM NOON.

Hello Jeremy and Cindy. per our Mutual agreement we all signed on September 8, 2021 here is the final date for you to legally pocess the property and final checklist and date and time for inspection and final walk through.

December 31, 2021 is your last day to process the property located at [address redacted] Vancouver, WA 98694. Final key turn in and property inspection is 12:00 on January 1, 2022. However since it is a holiday we can do this on Sunday January 2, 2022 at 12:00 P.M. NOON That will give you an extra day for deep cleaning and maximizing up to your $1995 Security/Damage deposit refund. After this date you will be in unlawful pocession and trespassing. Subject to triple damages and attorney fees.

Checklist and key turn in and expectations.

Have the property as close to move in clean checklist

(1) carpets deep cleaned and shampoo

(2) The property completely empty with all your personal property removed

(3) per the lease agreement all owners property remain

(4) appliances, walls, hardwood floors, closets, cabinets deep cleaned, picture holes in walls patched touch up paint, garage and attic cleared and clean, backyard empty and cleaned. Window Blinds cleaned.

(5) Keys and garage door openers ready to turn in.

(6) All utility bills paid in full through December 31, 2021. We will switch over utility bill responsibility effective January 1, 2022 to us.

It has been a pleasure to have served you in a rental capacity.

Any questions around this please let me know otherwise have a great holiday and see you on January 2, 2022.

[landlord name redacted]

Please for your Sake don't ignore or disregard this.

(1) Legal agreement with 4 full months to secure New residence

(2) Free rent agreeing to terms as the September 8, 2021 SIGNED agreement

(3) Illegal pocession and trespassing after December 31, 2021 ( permission to clean and pocess until January 2, 2022) as per agreement. Criminal charges will be implemented against you.

(3) The security damage deposit may be drastically deminished or all Absorbed by legal EVICTION fees. Legal eviction and attorney fees are deductibles against deposit.

So simply have the property cleaned and empty on January 2, 2022 and collect your full deposit and avoid all this.

Any questions around this please reach out to me.

We will be coming down on 1/2/22 with a UHAUL truck because so no surprises, stores or games. An eviction and criminal charges on your record will be a bad thing.