Not cool

Just a word to please up the prayers on our departure from this apartment. We knew our landlord would be unhappy when we gave our notice, and when we first talked to him after he received our written notice he was predictably whiny. However, today's exchange was just rude and Stefan is really upset with him. I'm not too pleased either. He's accusing us of promising to stay for 3 years, which we never said (and never would, why?!).

He was also upset with being sent people who want to take the apartment - we knew he wouldn't be excited about 3 girls, but they are long-term which is important to him, so we thought it was a valid enough reason. He also informed us today he doesn't want a young married couple. He seems to want an older couple, but those people would never take this place for many reasons, which he won't believe. We don't know what he really wants, other than to be mean and rude on the telephone. Maybe a deaf, celibate monk would be the perfect fit. Able to do the yardwork, gracious enough to put up with the landlord, and deaf to not hear everything.

We see this getting worse, with him nickle and diming made up things from our security deposit, refusing all potential Nachmieters, which he pretty much said he'd do today on the phone, etc. We have been under the impression that by law he has to take the 3rd realistically acceptable Nachmieter (and we're only sending realistic people his way anyhow) but it looks like this will involve a lawyer to document/prove and get expensive. Stefan feels like just paying for our last month and taking it easy moving out of here. I would like to not have to pay another 600+ for July. I also just want to get out of here even faster now!

I'm just super disappointed with how ugly this man was on the phone today. It will only get worse with him, he's a real cheapskate. It's really hard to have a Christian attitude faced with this sort of thing. Looks like we'll need a lot of perseverence and grace on this end of the move as well!