At the beginning of April, we talked to the management at Twin Creeks Apartments. We were promised our 3br 2b with finished basement (My 4th bedroom :D) would be ready for us to move in on Wednesday, April 17th. We just had to pay $264 more to move in. We all made arrangements to move on that day – all three of my roomies had to be out of their current living arrangement by that date anyways…

Monday, April 15th, I get a call from Twin Creeks. “Yeah, your apartment isn’t going to be ready until the 22nd. When they pulled some of the old carpets, they discovered a lot of damage to the floors, so they have to do some work there.” I informed her that none of my to-be roomies had a place to live after Wednesday. We were promised a home. She told me to call back the next day if we couldn’t find other arrangements. (Mind you, they couldn’t stay with me. I was in a loft, not even actually a bedroom. No chance of fitting the 4 of us there for a week, let alone if my landlord would have allowed it... and I REALLY don't think he'd have been okay with it. I didn't even try asking.)

I called back early the next afternoon. I had ONE back up – Mike and Aaron (roomies) were gonna beg their landlord to let us stay there till that Monday. After that though, we had to be OUT.

“Yeeeeah… The damage was worse than we thought. It won’t be ready until the following Friday (The 26th now).” I kept calm and politely explained that our only backup wouldn’t last that long, and was by no means even guaranteed at all. We need a place to live. She told me to call back in an hour and we’d see if there was anything they could do.

I called back in an hour. “Managers havent gotten back to me yet, but we’re gonna try and put you up in one of our 2br apartments in the meantime. Give us a call back in about 2 more hours, and we should have it all figured out.”

Angry now.

I called back maybe an hour later – didn’t care if they had an answer yet on the apartment, I wanted to ask about the $264 we owed. Thankfully, she had both answers. And more bad news…..

“Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah… It just keeps getting better. They found bedbugs while stripping out the old carpets. The whole place needs to be treated. That’s a 2 week process on its own. Good news is, we can give you the 2br place for sure!” …Kay. What about the money we still owe? “Oh, you don’t owe anything at all at this point. Our bookkeeper will be back on Thursday, and we can see then what else we can do for you…

It is now Monday, and I havent heard back from them… I’ll be going up to the office in the next hour.