The post office now offers a prior notice email of the upcoming letters and packages. Two days ago, the notice email included the scan data of the letter from the realtor.
I got uneasy. I instantly knew this was not a happy letter.
The realtor is the representative of the house owner that we are renting. The owner can do anything, such as kicking us out or increasing the rent, as long as they notice us one month prior.
I had spent these two days feeling uneasy. If the realtor were nice and friendly, I would casually ask her what the letter was for. Unfortunately I cannot do so. If I asked her, she would reply back to me in her usual cold voice tone to wait for the letter arrive. She is not nice.
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Today the letter finally arrived. I was right about my intuition. It was not a happy letter.
It was a rent increase notice. The letter was straightforward. It does not contain any greetings or nice wordings.
The letter said they will raise the rent by 12.5 % from January of next year. The letter asks us to sign the official document of the rent increase agreement and send it back to her. The letter also says even if we don’t send the agreement document back, it is considered we agree. Otherwise they have rights to terminate rent contract; which means we will have to move out by the end of next month.
I was shocked.
I wish the realtor was little bit nicer than doing this. I wish the realtor at least let us know in advance by a phone call, prior to the official letter. Instead, the realtor just sent out the cold-hearted letter all of a sudden. The letter was intimidating and threatening. I felt the disadvantage of being a tenant.
As for this realtor, she was nice and kind at the beginning. At least I thought so. However, my husband warned me to be careful with her from the beginning. He knew she would change her attitude right after we made a contract.
He was right. The realtor completely changed her attitude from nice to cold-hearted. After we signed the contract documents, any communications with her, including the conversation over the phone and the text messages, were unpleasant. We have been living in this house for almost six years. Whenever I needed to communicate with the realtor regarding the house, I would ask my husband to do so. He didn’t like communicating with her neither. That was how we have survived from dealing with the not-nice person.
Maybe it is the sign for us to move out this house. But then, where should we go? We don’t have any opportunities yet to find another house.
Before I slept, I asked my family spirits to talk to me about our residence in my dream.
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