Our rent just functionally went up $200. They've decided to cease paying electricity (which is what brought us here in the first place) and we're going month-to-month. ($150 for electricity and $50 for mo-2-mo.) This is especially rubbing salt in the wound because we were sooo going to move out of here. We've gotten three erroneous eviction notices (one on my birthday, no less, which lead to an argument that ended a sorta relationship I was in), a pothole in the parking lot four feed wide and half a foot deep, and the last straw was when they towed JD's car on a registration violation (On January 3rd, his registration had been three days expired) most likely in return for a kickback.

However, because both of us are unemployed at present, we cannot leave.

But! But there are silver linings here:
1) We love the apartment. Despite the worst management we've ever dealt with (and our previous complex was analogous to the barrios), the apartment is cool in both form and function. The front side has a European decadent charm and the back makes this place feel like a giant tree house. The first floor (we occupy the second and third) looks like a little cave because it's half a floor below the elevated walkway. Though I'm not a dungeons and dragons person, the idea of cave and tree villages is conceptually cool and I was going to miss that.

2) As much as we loathe our management, they were quite entertaining today. They tried to explain that they were not functionally raising rent by no longer including electricity. "We're charging the same amount. Actually, this is the first time in a year our rent hasn't gone up!" When I explained to them it was still functionally going up, they looked at me like I was stupid and kept saying "It's still only $889 a month!"

3) I was also going to miss our neighbors.

4) If I'd been terminated a week later, we'd have turned in our 30-day notice and we'd literally have nowhere to go. If I'd been terminated a month later, I'd be saddled with a much larger lease (I was looking at getting a much nicer place, being comfortably employed and all).

5) It was quite possibly that Danforth was not going to be able to move with me, and as roommates we compliment each other extremely well. Even a week ago when I could afford to live on my own, I still would rather have living with him.