Tea time roundup. Re: The last couple of weeks.

So after announcing we were being renovicted, I learned quickly we don't have many rights at all as tenants.

It does not matter how sick you are, if there is a viewing scheduled, people will show up without masks and wander through my place, completely oblivious to my kid’s constant coughing. They will move your furniture to look at things, it feels invasive. I caught a cold and I lost my voice two days ago which is AMAZING TIMING when I need to ship a lot of things and converse with the post office worker over it all. I digress.

The landlord's have called every few days for new photos to list. They come off as deceitful people by not mentioning that there is a family currently residing in the house they have for sale. Their photos are curated to avoid showing the unit being “lived in”.

The look of surprise when the Realtors announce that “there should be noone present” to me as I open the door to them,

and I work from home lol.

Other house real estate listings do state if there is a family in the residence and also states in writing that it is advisable that the person who buys the house considers to keep renting to that family. That is honest advertising. My landlords won’t do this.

We have had people drive and park to look at the house from outside, only to leave when they realize it's occupied. Everyone is expecting an empty unit.

My daughter is afraid to sleep at night because of the traffic now and of the keybox on the front door. This has lead to many nights of disrupted sleep, which made it easy for us all to catch a cold and lose our voices.

There's a lot of frustration and anger on my part as a disabled adult. I hate this whole experience, I hate that my kids have to experience this too. I never want this feeling of no control over my home again. I rented this place under the assumption it was owned by a large company and would never be up for renovicting. If you pay your rent and you’re maintaining your place, you should be left alone.

I tore my calf muscle, which makes walking and using the stairs a horrible experience. So everything I do is that much slower, which sets my ADHD off lol I want to be teleporting places not moving at a snail’s pace.

We’re all slowly healing from the voice loss and coughing. We went for a walk through my favorite forest and found a solitary trillium in bloom. It's things like this that make the rest a little less crap. I'll miss seeing this Trillium, I've been visiting it for the last 7 years since I found them. There used to be two blooming plants. Now only one remains.