Regarding the Tuesday article, “Caught up in land deal, 200 to lose homes”:
People have a lot of nerve! How can anyone say they were “blindsided” by their landlord’s request to vacate their rented homes after they were told in January 2007 that the homes were slated for demolition and were therefore only being rented on a month-to-month basis? Not enough time to look? What was that mother of three doing for the last 15 months after she found out the property was going to be developed? Add three more months the landlord has given her, plus her last month’s rent, and this qualifies as being blindsided?
If I was told in January of 2007 that my home was going to be demolished, and I could not depend on keeping it beyond a month at a time, I think I would have started looking for a new place right away. Any responsible person would have felt lucky at the end every month when they didn’t get the move-out notice because it meant they had 30 more days to find a place.
People (parents especially) have to take responsibility for their lives. How many good places to live did she miss because she sat around doing nothing — knowing all the while the clock was ticking? It’s hard for families to have to move, but please don’t cry foul — you knew for a long time this was coming and it sounds like you did nothing to prepare for it. That’s not the landlord’s fault and shouldn’t become his problem.
Daria Taylor
Everett
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