Seattle

I'm sitting here listening to workers dismantle, I mean upgrade, my apartment complex. I've lived here for 20+ years. A property management company bought the place, gave us 60 day notices (I have until the end of this month to find a place) so they could refurbish the apartments and then rent them back out. Being the kind, sympathetic fuckheads they are, they offered us original tenants a great deal in having first dibs on the refurbished places. Rent went from $1700 to $3200. So nice of them.

The interesting thing for me was, the week after the sale went through I called up the company to find out where I was supposed to send my rent. The lady had a little trouble finding my info, and then excused herself by saying,"Sorry, we bought 5 apartment complexes this week and the system hasn't caught up yet."

This isn't Washington, but I've had similar stories from friends living in different states. It's a fucked up situation in this country. Yet another issue that politicians just can't seem to do anything about.