Monday, August 2, 2010

Being Homeless

It has been less than 12 hrs since we moved into a new place. The We include Chandy, Shajahan, Tariq, Avinash and myself.And it has been less than 12 hrs since we found the new house and the same time since we gave the token advance.

We have been trying to move from the previous house for quite sometime and after house hunting for over a month, we finally saw a house that we liked. So we gave the token advance and were supposed to shift yesterday afternoon.

THe previous landlord, Mr X, came in on Saturday and told us that he would refund the advance by 12pm and accordingly we intimated the brokers and the new landlord. After an entire day's packing, we were finally awaiting the money and when there was no sign of X, we called him. Apparently he went out on an emergency and would be back only by 5in the evening. That is when our thoughts were flooded by our old neighbour's words on how X has cheated on all the previous tenants and never gave the money on time. We went straight to his house and found it locked. Called his number, but in vain as it was switched off. We called his brother-in-law and came to know that the emergency was in Innovative Film CIty, where there is an outing of sorts for the family.

Those words got us boiling and then, without much thoughts we told his neighbours why we were creating the ruckus, kept trying his cell, spoke to brother-in-law politely, then sternly and finally at around 6pm, Mr X came with the money. Not the whole sum, but partial and then I took him to the nearest ATM and got the rest as well. After some profanity, that we could not hold back due to our situation, and some stares and some anger, he left.

We had to call the real estate agency, the new owner and we communicated our predicament, and they told us not to worry and to come over before 9pm. We were partly relived.

THe lorry/truck was called and by 730 all that we were worth was in the truck and we called the real estate agency to get the agreement signed and then we get the next shock. We are told that we can sign the agreement, but cant move in today. The owner wanted to clean and pain. We didnt want a cleaned and painted house, we just wanted to move in, unpack and rest. So CHandy and Shajahan went to the agency and then to the owner. In the meantime Tariq, Avinash and myself finished the loading and were literally sitting on the road, with the truck driver being kind enough to stay as long as we wanted.

At 9 in the night, we finally get the call from chandy saying that the house for which we gave the advance has been taken up by someone else and that the owner is not letting us move in. Suddenly, he cant remember the token advance, our communication to him regarding moving in and he cant remember that he was initially okay with bachelors moving in. How complicated can this get, you would now start to think. Chandy, Shajahan and the brokers went about searching for a new house, saw a house, met the owner, they shook hands and finalized the deal and we were summoned up. We did not even pay him the full advance. We told him about our predicament and the only condition he kept was to act civil.

Thus, we moved into a house at 1030pm, that was finalized at 9pm.


The twist after all this is that we had to go back to the old house for we forgot the gas cylinder there. None of us bother to load that into the truck. That happened at 130am..

Now am in office, sharing that with whoever reads this blog :)


Rgds
Rahul

5 comments:

Farz said...

Hi,
Reading this and the previous blog, i seriously hope you were staying no where near Forum :)
Or is it that everyone of this breed are just the same :)

Unknown said...

I am still waiting for my advnce from my ex PG owner ... This is the reality of life ... U pay ... people play ;)

Btw ...ur write depicts ur ordeal really well :)... Pheww I thank the god for not being ur roommate :P I dont want this luck for me :

Unknown said...

These are not tragedies... These are all experiences :P

NkF said...

ahh... d ordeal will start in mid sept fr me..

NkF said...

btw... nice blog layout :)