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I was talking with a friend this morning (you know who you are and thank you!) about how angry I am with people lately. Last week I had a former tenant send me an email who discovered a $1,295 judgment on his credit. He stated that I had lied to put this on his credit and he had witnesses about black mould in the property and was considering consulting a lawyer. It pissed me off a bit, so I suggested he go ahead and proceed as I would then have his current address and could go after all the additional charges I didn’t have in the judgment.
It irritated me that he tried to get out of paying originally and when it finally caught up to him, he was still trying to get out of it.
Yesterday I met with two guys from out East who were here to do some promotional work with the Calgary Herald. They called last week and wanted me to hold two rooms for them. They were persistent and very concerned that I had to hold them, so I did. They were supposed to call Saturday to confirm time of arrival, but of course they didn’t so I didn’ t expect them.
Then they called Sunday to say they were here, the rooms weren’t quite ready, so Karen and I had to rush over and prep them before they got there. When they did show up, they didn’t have the money with them for the rooms, and they wouldn’t be able to get it all since they had to withdraw money for traveling earlier that day and had daily limits. Yep, this irritated me too, especially since we had the conversation about costs a week earlier.
So they ran to the bank, came back and wanted to talk to me, in private. So we go outside and they tell me they thought it was too much. They wanted a discount of about 30%. They explained if they ended up staying longer they could rent as apartment for less. So to recap, I held two rooms, rushed to prep them for them, gave them the benefit of the doubt and was letting them only pay part of it up front and now they wanted a further discount. I was furious. I suggested they go get an apartment and walked away leaving them to drive off.
What I’ve been noticing over the last month is I’ve been letting incidents like this get to me. It’s just been a series of little pin pricks that get more and more and more and more and more annoying. The phone call this morning was part one of the revelation that this was happening.
You have to wait until tomorrow for part two!
