Drama!

One housemate took a mattress from the garage that belongs to the landlord. Now the landlord says no bicycles in the garage. Or boxes, or anything. Great.

Housemate claims that the other housemates said it was OK and is defensive, claiming landlord is trying to create drama to have control. Hello? Justifying a wrong action with the overreaction?

I really really don’t like my bikes being outside. It’s not a good way to store bicycles.

The landlord is also saying threatening things to the housemate about the “repercussions” of “having an illegal business in the home.” I think I’d better brush up on the legality of home-based businesses just for my own preservation. I don’t do work from home; even unpaid writing assignments that I do for publication get written somewhere else. But if having clients over is something that can get us evicted (seems unlikely; this is San Francisco… of course, the landlord will not stop talking about how much he’d love to live here himself, so he could get us all out with 30 days notice anyway, right?) then that’s something that I need to be aware.

Also, note to self: resist urge to show landlord who is boss by telling him what he can and cannot do or say. The guy is pissed off about the mattress, and since he wasn’t asked about it, he’s got a right to be. Getting defensive will only make things worse. But I should probably know what my rights are in case things actually go sour.

Have to admit, that beautiful 1BR on Polk Street with the hardwood floors and the view of Alcatraz that I looked at back in February is starting to get its appeal back.