Asking to see your bank statements? Can they do this?
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So… is your landlord a drug addict or mentally ill? Cuz they sound not right… and none of that sounds legal…
Do you have a landlord tenant tribunal where you are? Tenants rights association? At the very least you may be able to get more time…?
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Well, that explains the apartment cop.
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because it’s the default here I thought of the US and a H-1B visa, and wasn’t at all surprised by the apartment cop. simply one more strange LEO and not more outlandish than a school police.
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Except our LEOs don’t get involved in federal immigration issues unless it is during the commission of a state crime or infraction. One good thing with separation of powers, I guess.
I do know that when my in-laws lived in France (off and on) during the late 90s and early aughts, they had to check in with the local police when they arrived. They said it was a pretty benign interview/introduction.
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Nah, it was bullshit. When I eventually called him on it, he sent me a minute from a cabinet meeting from ten years ago (which was about landlords being responsible for checking on immigrants’ legal status (which is another kind of bullshit)) and a google link for “landlord responsibilities” or some such.
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He’s just a bully, trying to confuse me with bafflegab.
Edit: I can probably hold him off for a while: when the notice is up he has to apply for a repossession order from the court. I’ve no idea how long that will take, but I don’t know if I’m that bothered to fight it. It’ll be hard enough to get my head together to plan to move in two months or less.
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Ah well, sounds good that you get out then.
Change is hard, and harder still when you’re head is not in the game. Good luck!
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It turns out I’m kind of an expert on landlord and tenant law (I work in an related field on Ontario and have conducted jurisdictional scans covering a sizeable portion of the English-speaking world). Depending on where you live there may be valid reasons to throw out a tenant and non-valid reasons, differing periods of notice that must be given depending on the reasons, and different ways of resolving disputes. But regardless of where you live it’s almost certain that the path of least resistance is leaving in the allotted time, even if the law is on your side.
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my knowledge about the US police is extensive and I had excellent teachers: police TV series and BB posts. Officers scream “You have the right to remain silent!” before they start shooting everyone.
btw, police. the coolest police station sign is a combined Dutch/German one, on a building directly on the border*
according to Wikipedia the kitchenette is in the Netherlands and the toilets in Germany
* we continental Europeans can see and feel and live the benefits of the united Europe. poor Britons miss out a lot.
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Well, I didn’t say that our LEOs wouldn’t shoot you. 
It’s just that my neighbor, the LAPD detective down the street who I met once in the almost four years we’ve been here, wouldn’t ask to see anyone’s papers. I don’t think he even gave a shit when the local cops busted the pot growers who live in the corner house (and who were back in business almost the next day).
eta: This is why that idiot sheriff in Arizona is being sued.
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Oh goody, I get to have a colonoscopy.
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I got a camera down the other end… not sure about from that end but I got some pretty awesome drugs for it. Don’t remember a thing after the needle going into my arm.
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I had that too–and yeah, the anesthetic was something else! A prickling sensation went up the back of my neck and it was lights out.
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I’m at work, doing some updates on mission-critical systems, and stuff like this comes always in a package: Working on weekends automagically demands my presence on the next workday. This is only inconvenient, not bad and simply part of the job of a sysadmin.
The “fuck” is a minuscule detail I forgot. The next workday is monday, with one exception: a super-special public holiday only in this town.
Without the updates I could have stayed at home as I have no customer contact. With the updates I’m obliged to sit at the desk.
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Those Scrabble tournaments are off the hook!
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Thanks, launching a start-up, ‘Seataholdillio’ that hires a seat sitter for you with the tap of the app as soon as I finish this post. I’ll shoot you a fruit basket when we go public
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This isn’t a super big Fuck Today, especially in the context of this thread (can I get another Fuck Cancer?).
The last two months I’ve met a couple (well, three) interesting women that were interested in me, and I get to tell the last of them today to pound sand. I don’t have many deal breakers, but they managed to all hit the same one (fidelity, as in they weren’t interested ever at all).
I know this sounds defeatist, and I know exactly what peeps will say. But I honestly feel like lightning struck, in a largely good way, with my last long term partner. And even though I force myself to go out, meet people, engage in online dating, meet friends of friends… At my age I just can’t visualize lightning striking a second time.
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Really? You’re the same age as me…chin up, chap.
If you’re meeting interesting women who are interested as you as quickly as you seem to be doing, just keep doing what you are doing, and have fun.
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It turns out that people of our age generally have pretty high standards (or depressingly low ones), and I am a bit challenged in some departments. Not completely lacking, but challenged.
I am not being facetious, I need a Yenta 
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