My week is fairly slammed. I should be available Thursday evening, though.

Is that September 15th?

That sounds correct, yes. 👍

That's my birthday! How about Sept 16th at 1:00?

Ahh, absolutely. Happy early birthday!

Thanks

The check arrived

Thank God.

Funds are available and waiting.

Great!

Funds cleared my bank yesterday. Feel free to give your bank hell if they try to hold it.

Hey, sorry I got busy yesterday at work and forgot about our meeting. Let's reschedule for next Friday same time. Have a great weekend

I figured, lol. Didn't want to trouble you if that was the case. Friday will work.

At the ren fest this weekend. Hope your weekend is equally enjoyable.

Good morning! What time would you like to chat tomorrow?

Hi, Chet. I was hoping to chat in person, but we've postponed speaking for nearly a month now, and since the contract hasn't materialised, I'm hoping I can save you money on your attorney.

While I expected to complete the purchase of the property, the situation has changed in the sixteen-plus months since you and I originally spoke about it. Sara and I have ended things, and she left some time ago. Considering that the Letter of Intent was never executed and there's still no contract for sale, I have decided to vacate rather than purchase. Please consider this my official notice to terminate according to the terms of the original lease.

It has been a truly difficult decision; I love the place and I wish things could have worked out differently. But it simply no longer makes sense.


As you know, since July 2021 I've paid an extra $800.00 per month as a good faith contribution toward the down payment, for a total of$12,000. Without the purchase, this will obviously need to be returned, but I don't want to put you in a financial bind. So please apply $3300 from that outstanding amount toward each of the October and November rents. This will leave only $5400 plus the $3300 deposit to be returned upon completion.

I am currently down south helping family with the aftermath from hurricane Ian, so phone service is spotty. But please feel free to text if you have any questions.

Cheers,
Matt

Matt, I'll respond in full later today, but the $800, was only part of what we agreed on, you were also supposed to pay $40,000 by now. You are putting me in a situation to pay capital gains tax, so the $800 doesn't cover that cost. Also, what changes have you done to the property? This is a mess we will have to discuss.

Have you moved out of the property?

We also need to receive your October payment. You can't give notice like this and expect not to pay the current months rent

I certainly didn't intend to put you in any financial distress, but I'm also not sure where our disconnect is.

In May of 2021, we provided you with a Letter of Intent to negotiate the purchase, but that letter was never signed and consequently did not come into effect.

We also offered to have our solicitor write the first draft of the Lease-To-Own (LTO) contract at our expense, which you declined in favour of having yours draft it instead. We waited nearly a year and a half, and and that first draft has still not come.

Consequently, as things currently stand, the only executed contract between us is the original 2020 rental agreement for $3,300 per month.

Our preliminary negotiation, as I understood it, provided for a $20,000 payment upon execution of the LTO contract, a second balloon payment of $20,000 one year later, and an $800/month payment for three years. Although we did not have an executed contract, I began paying that monthly amount in good faith while we waited for you to provide the draft contract.

At this point, the $800/month good faith payment is now moot, since there will be no down payment to which to apply it.

We also weren't able to make any changes or improvements to the property because we've been waiting for the executed LTO contract.

I had thought it would be easier to apply that money to the rent rather than returning the lump sum immediately, but I'm certainly willing to work with you to come to an alternative arrangement.

I expect it will take the full 60 days to remove everything from the property - there's a lot to do. If it will help, perhaps we can shoot for a January date instead.

Let me know how you'd like to proceed.

I had a service lined up to clean the house, if you want their number.

What do plan to do with the items I couldn't remove from the house?

Let's be clear here, you could have removed all of the items from the house. You gave a termination notice on 10/4/22, had until 12/3/22 (60 day notice) and had additional time from 12/3/22 until 1/14/23, to remove your property. Lastly, when you came unannounced to the property on 1/22/23, where we took out of our day to come over and wait with the police for you to arrive back. You decided not to show.
We will be reaching out to our legal counsel tomorrow for directions and will contact you afterwards.

We will be at the property on Saturday 2/4/23. You are welcome to pick up your items between 12-2, with a hard stop at 2:00. When you come, we expect the cooktop grates and burner covers to be returned.

The cooktop will remain, as per our agreement when you requested to install it.

I am not available at that time.

I am very interested to know what guidance your attorney has offered, especially considering that I would already have my property had you not changed the locks.

Says the person who twice declined to pick up his stuff!

...after I was locked out.

Your games are childish!

Enough of this.

I simply want the property you denied me access to, Chet. It's over ten thousand dollars worth.

Just tell me what you attorney says, or have him contact me.

As stated in my text. You can pick up you items from 12-2 tomorrow. Please confirm if you will be there.

I am on the other side of the country and cannot be available at your beck and call.

You were available on 1/22 and Sarah and the police officer waited for you, but you were a no show. I guess your stuff is not that important to you.

I was available when I arrived, not four hours later in the dark and freezimg rain after discovering I was illegally locked out.

This conversation is no longer productive. Please have your attorney contact me if you have anything further to say.

My attorney will not contact you. You will have to work directly with me.

...?

If I'm not waiting on your attorney, I must be waiting on you.

I'm confused. You wanted me to continue communicating with you rather than your attorney, but you've stopped responding.

I still need the property you prevented me from removing. How do you propose that should happen?

I'm sorry, but your past communications never had a question to respond to and there has been no request made. There was no preventing you, you just choose simply to not remove your stuff, which is why the judge ruled in our favor.

We will be at the house on Saturday from 1:00-3:00, you can pick up you items and remove your trash then. Please return the grates and covers to the cooktop.

I think you're misunderstanding the difference between repossessing the property and preventing me from retrieving my belongings.

I expect - and am due - the items you prevented me from removing to be returned to me in full and in undamaged condition. I am willing to work with you to make that happen, but cannot be expected to do so on your schedule or dictated terms.

I am still working out of state and will not be able to return for several weeks at least. I don't wish to delay you further than necessary, but I am thus constrained. I am open to alternative arrangements.

Then, why don't you hire people to move your remaining items into storage. That was your plan in Dec.

Btw, I haven't kept you from getting your items, you just aren't in the state to get them yourself, the same problem you had on Dec and Jan. I have offer multiple times for you to get your items.

I did. You scared them off. And I still had to pay them. $6,000 wasted out of $18,000.

I still haven't heard what you would like to do. I am willing to arrange for my things to be collected, but you haven't given me enough information to work with to make that happen.

We can schedule a time for you to pick up your remaining items. Are you in town?

Still working out of state, unfortunately.

The earliest I can find a service to get my things is third week of April.

I haven't heard from you, so we've missed the window for April.

Please advise.

Are my things still at the house, or did you move them?

Your lack of response is troubling.

Just received a $1075.90 bill from Verizon for unpaid equipment returns since I couldn't get into the house to retrieve my things

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