Today was an eye opening experience at the apartments. One renter was in Aurora shooting – injured with a bullet in his head. His girlfriend was shoot in chest and stomach – is now paralyzed and lost a baby of his she was carrying. Her little girl was shot dead.
We have worked with him for months on the rent. He is trying to be responsible to his lease while living with his uncle in Aurora.
He was able to receive some funds from the shooting gifts. Now that time is up. He was trying to be responsible and had sublet (not really cleared by us) to a friend or more from one of his rehab groups.
Turns out his homeless friend had her three kids also visiting and another homeless women. She explained she was a recovering addict and was on the upswing from her last relapse. She is a really smart accountant and knows the ins and outs of land lord rights and her rights during evictions. We don’t really have any lease with her. She claims that February 1st she will have a “bed” at New Directions. It has taken her 4 months to get into that service. She is unable to hold a job for 45 days as part of their program. Some of the rules for help just don’t make any logical sense. I don’t know where she finds money for food. Paying utilities is just out of the question and added on to all of our rates.
We could either evict the guy on the lease which will take about 2 weeks: ~2-1-2013 when her bed will be ready. We were just taken back by how smart people do life changing things that effect so many. It puts everyone between a rock and a hard place.
What a tear in the fabric of our society.!. She has no place to live while she waits for government / charity help, if she hadn’t squatted at our place thanks to the soft heart of the guy who was shot in the Aurora situation. I didn’t really want to make her cry, but did. Not sure if this was just a reaction to her standard operating zone when confronted with issues or it was real.
At any rate we are out Jan rent while the Aurora guy continues to try to get his life together while visiting his girlfriend in Aurora who was paralyzed at the shooting and then he drives occasionally back across town to our apartment to check on why rent is not paid by his homeless friends. He’s only 28 and it sure is a lot for a guy so young to endure.
He is a tree surgeon and mostly out of work in the winter. He said he could paint. I start him on Wednesday to paint the outside of our apartment eves where I can’t reach. Heights sure don’t bother him as they do me. Nor does climbing up on a ladder, which my knees just don’t tolerate.