Starting a new life

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Another chapter in my life is almost done, about to be printed but only a rough draft of what I wanted it to be. I am laid off from a job I hoped I would do until I retired, moving from the NYC/NJ area to Virginia, will stay with my parents for a month or two until I decide what I am going to do. That is good, I’ve only seen them once a year at Christmas for decades. But I have lived here for the past 3 years and it was not what I hoped it would be, afer moving from Rhode Island. I stuck around there for 3 years after Susan died, finally sold my house and could not wait to get back here, where my brothers live, and I thought I could hook up again with my friends where I used to work in NYC (always meant to, never did except on Facebook), and I would be just over the river from Bright Lights, Big City! There is this great line from, I believe the character on Murphey Brown was Corky, and she said, “NYC has MOMA, and Broadway, and the Statue of Liberty, and the Museum of Natural History, etc. We never go to any of them, but we know they are there.”

Well, I knew they were there, and I intended to go to all of them and more, but I never did. I went to work Monday through Friday here in NJ, I came home, I watched TV or read, and I drank some beers on Friday night with my brother. I am not saying it was a bad life, it was pretty good actually. I had a good job with good people, I was healthy, my family was healthy, I had no financial worries, maybe that is all one can expect in life. It just wasn’t quite what I wanted it to be.

Looking forward to a quiet life in Radford for a while. Maybe it will be for just a couple of months, maybe it will be for a year, maybe it will be forever. My timing is perfect, the long-awaited opening of the Dawg House, which, I hear, has the best hot dogs ever, is finally happening after a year’s delay. And there is Sal’s, which has, after 40 years, the best Philly cheesesteak I have ever had. It is a university town, and there are, or will be after COVID, cool places with live music. Country and bluegrass music, which I have missed so much after years living in rock and roll towns.

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Good luck to you. Sometimes going home for awhile is just what’s needed.
Keep posting and updating. I am interested in how you make out.

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disregard this post, as most of mine are

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I don’t believe this, I just checked old voicemails and they are going to charge me one month’s rent for not giving 60 days notice. I’m moving because I lost my job end of July, can I fight this? It is in the lease, did not know that. I guess I am screwed

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Sure.
Will you win? Likely no.
You agreed to the terms when you signed the lease. You can’t claim that those terms no longer apply to you, simply because your personal circumstances have changed.

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I know. I missed the edit window to delete the question. It’s been 3 decades since I rented apartments, it was 30 days at that time and I just assumed.

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Some places have ordinances that they cannot charge you rent if they have filled the unit - no double dipping. It’s worth it to check.

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Maybe you can convince them by pointing out that if you stay and can’t pay (since you lost your job) it’ll cost them a lot more money as it takes several months to evict you.

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They have not charged me yet and it’s already the 7th. Maybe they will take it from my security. Maybe they rented the place. Or maybe they haven’t yet, but if they did tomorrow, I would only be charged for a week. I found this in NJ regulations - If the tenant moves out before the lease term has expired, the landlord must attempt to re-rent the apartment for the remaining months on the lease and prove that there was an attempt to re-rent the unit, i.e. advertising the premises for rent and interviewing tenants. That would lead me to believe they would notify when it is rented.