After paying for 2 months of rent, I did everything possible to remain in the mobile on the pre-historic side of The Villages, Silver Lake. But, when the headaches started, and the landlord pulled a Jekyll and Hyde on me when I told him the place was making me sick, I knew I had to move, EVEN if he wouldn’t return one month’s rent. I left the mobile 150% cleaner than when I moved in, but, even with the cleaning, there was still mold or something toxic and I moved out.
The mobile is still vacant, and although I have finally removed everything of mine (but the two $6 each damp rid devices), and I’ve put the For Rent signs back up (on my own, not sure what the owner has planned, except that I know he didn’t want to take care of the property, would rather have someone who is NOT sensitive to whatever it is that is making me sick), I still haven’t returned his key.
Partly because I’ve been very sick for over a week now with what I suspect is a cold, but the longer it lasts, I’m not really sure what is going on. Still tired, my eyes sunken (went to get water today and a friend was shocked at my appearance), I’m fighting whatever it is with homeopathic remedies, as well as household items like honey, cinnamon, apple cider vinegar and tumeric, and the usual, garlic, onions and chicken soup. And, I still have the key because I’m actually afraid of the owner. He seemed nice enough, until I showed him the filth and expressed my concerns for my health…then I became “nothing but trouble since the day I moved in”. His words, spit at me when I told him I couldn’t stay there any longer. He threatened me and told me to bring an attorney if I wanted to get my money back, told me to NEVER CALL HIM AGAIN, and to get my stuff out as he was afraid that I “was going to die” on his property. He said AFTER I had vacated, and after I returned his key, THEN he would talk about returning the last month’s rent, the $200 spent to attempt to professionally clean the HVAC (it didn’t work), the hours spent cleaning the dump, etc. Given all of that, and being sick for over a week, I’ve not yet returned his key.
Since then I’ve stayed at a friend’s place for nearly a week, before moving into a lovely home in The Village of Tall Trees…fate would have it that the owner would be out of town for the month and, as a favor to a friend, I could stay here for $400. I’ll be wiping everything down with Clorox wipes before I leave, don’t want to risk the owner catching this, whatever it is.
I’ve missed the lighting of The Villages Christmas Tree, the Christmas Parade (golf carts) and the Downtown Lighting of Lady Lake, not to mention any chance at all to dance anywhere. People everywhere are coughing and sniffling, and I’ve heard that “it’s going around”. Must be how I picked up the virus (?)…people out and about while sick, spreading germs. OR, I was just exhausted after moving 3 times in less than 40 days, working too much and stressing over where and what and how of the future.
I’m safe. I’m warm. I’m getting healthy.
I’m not in Japan, or Haiti, or Turkey. I’m not in a wheelchair. I’m not in the hospital with some terminal illness.
It’s just another beautiful day in The Villages!
