Troubles continue

This week, my husband, who is more interested in engaging with conflicts than I am, sent the realtor who is the property manager at my condo a nastygram.
Here is his empty response:

Please let me know if you were able to access the owner portal and see the reports. 

 In case you were not able to access the portal, I've attached a year-to-date report showing all inflows and outflows and balances after each transaction. 

You will recall our phone call when I explained that you were holding the former tenant('s) security deposit of $1,700 which you sent to me electronically on Aug 18, 2023 so that I could send it back to him. My accounting department inadvertently sent these funds back to you $1,650 on August 24 and I explained that we would take the funds back so we could refund the former tenant's security deposit, which we did. Unfortunately, the accounting department sent the funds back to your account again on Sept 18 for $2,051 so we took the same funds back so we could pay your former tenant his security deposit refund. All of those transactions are on the attached report. When we spoke, I apologized for this happening twice and if I could explain - we manage 225 properties and yours was the only one where the owner held the security deposit so our accounting team was unfamiliar with a process to refund a tenant security deposit when we were not holding the funds. 

This will not happen again as the new tenant security deposit we are holding. I sent $2,486.00 to your account on Nov 22nd and the next payment you should expect will be around December 9-11th for $1,350 rent less $135 management fee or $1,215. You can expect this same amount around the same time each month. 

 Please let me know if you have any other questions about the statement.

xxxxx

After reading the idiot email he sent, I responded with this today. I haven't heard any response yet.

xxxxx, 

 Your Portal documents do not agree with my banking statements. Also, the Portal documents appear to be changing. I’m looking at my bank statements. 

When you first started managing my condo on June 01, 2023
Your monthly management fee should be $135.00.
You retain a constant $400.00 in Required Reserves.
We refunded the previous tenant $1700 from my checking account on August 21, 2023.
Repairs on the condo were $295.00.
(my tenant)pays $1,350.00 rent each month.
(my tenant)also paid a $540 move-in fee that included a pet deposit.
By now, I should have been getting $1,215.00 each month. Simple as that.

 
HERE’S WHAT MY BANK SHOWS:
06- 15-23 xxxxx Real Estate + $860.00
07- 15-23 xxxxx Real Estate + $1260.00
08- 21-23 xxxxx Real Estate - $1700.00

08- 25-23 xxxxx Real Estate + $1565.00
08- 29-23 xxxxx Real Estate - $1565.00
09- 13-23 xxxxx Real Estate + $2051.00
09- 18-23 xxxxx Real Estate - $2051.00
The $2,486.00, sent on October 23, was immediately removed by you from my account, just like every other payment you’ve put in.

TROUBLES

I believe my current property manager is a con artist. I had a discussion with him on Wednesday about the lack of funds in my shrinking bank account. He said he would put in 2 months payment and figure the rest out after he got back from Thanksgiving holiday. He said he had no idea why his bank was sucking everything back out of my account, like it was a mindless machine. After that discussion, I put a payment block on his company on my account Wednesday after he put money into it. Today, he sucked the last payment out by changing his company name to access my bank account. Now, I’ve had to completely freeze my bank account and I will have to close it to protect my money and open a new account. I need to find a new property manager for the condo. Meanwhile, the contract he has is for 12 months so I may be stuck with him and without any income for a year. I don’t think this affects the current tenant. They are still paying this realtor, who is keeping all of their money, every month but I am getting none the rent money. I need some referrence/financial advice/help with the condo I own in Atlanta. I might need an Atlanta attorney. I might need a new property manager in Atlanta if I can get out of my contract with my current realtor. Rental on the property has been my main source on income since we moved to North Carolina, until recently. I had to change realtor for managing the condo when the previous Real Estate company, stopped handling small individual properties like mine. She recommended the current manager of my condo. The condo has not made any money for me since this guy took control of it on June 1, 2023. It has only cost me money - $250 each month in Condo Association fees + payments to contractors for improvements + special assessments on the building + property taxes. I get monthly distribution emails saying that I’ve been paid and but when I look at my bank statement, every payment is sucked back out of my account in full a couple of days later and not replaced. The nice little emails made me feel like money was going in. It wasn’t. Wednesday was a frustrating day that all started with me trying to get health insurance and going to Healthcare.gov to see if I qualify for anything. Then I checked my bank account to calculate incomes to apply for healthcare and see that my bank account is shrinking every month. I have to cancel my doctors appointments next week because I can’t get insurance and a lot of medical services seem to insist on it. They don’t want to see me if I’m self-paying. I can’t apply for healthcare if I don’t honestly know what my monthly income is when I fill out online forms. I can’t count on the condo rent and I can’t discount it either. I need to cancel all of my subscriptions to everything and try to stop bleeding so much money from my savings. The most frustrating part of that is that Adobe software will charge me $109.98 to end my monthly subscription to all of my work apps. I thought when I had to update my Adobe software it would be a simple pay-by-the-month fee that I could easily drop or pick up again if I wasn’t working with a particular software package. Leaving them effectively ends all of my work possibilities in graphics or photography. So, since I’m not actively working, I suppose I am going to have to go out of graphics and photography altogether now. I can’t keep paying for my own tools. I am almost certain he will file a W9 claiming I made money on the condo this year when the condo has only been costing me a lot of money in HOA fees, property taxes, and maintenance fees. I don’t know what to do or what I can do about any of this. I have no words.

cold & wet

Today,  everything is dark, wet, and (finally) cold outside.  I would not be taking a single step outdoors if I didn't have to work tonight.  MonsterMustDie is working today until 5pm.I start work in the dress shop at 5pm, so we will not see each other today. 

We started watching Devil's Hour on Amazon last night, based on the recommendation of friends, and it's quite good with attention to detail in dialog and art direction. 

Going to the Potluck

Just finished making a pot of Thai green curry, based loosely on the recipe I got from a friend. It is a recipe with little or no specific amounts but a list of general guidelines on how she makes her curry, which everyone loves. She makes curry the same way I make gazpacho or guacamole. You just figure out what the base is and eyeball or taste until it seems right. No two batches are alike. This is a day when I walk a couple of blocks down and up to the next neighborhood near us, which is a lot more multi-generational (younger) and hipper (still working) than the neighborhood we live in. I always have a great time at the annual potluck, whether I go there alone or with my husband joining me. I always walk, crockpot in arms, because it's so close. I wish I knew more of our neighbors. People in High Point keep to themselves and mind their own business. This one street is different because it has a lot of multigenerational households including the children and grandchildren of original residents. It has in tiny community of people who have known each other since childhood and that sense of community spreads to some of the newer families on their block as well. With a lot of younger people who have children, the parents will inevitably know each other through their children. A few blocks over in our neighborhood, the only people who know each other are the dog-walkers, and they don't get too personal or care to do anything outside their home. It's amazing how different things can be, so near each other.

sound

I wonder why it's so quiet here; not our house but the neigborhood itself - so much that I think if voices are raised indoors that someone outside could possibly hear them. Inside the house there are sounds of air vents, fans, electrical hums, creaks. It's not the cacophony of nocturnal noises that my grandparents, the Hardy's, house was but there is quite a symphony of sound in this old house.

In Rufus Hardy's house, there were constantly bangs and groans from things turning on or shutting down, compressors, motors, electrical hums, loud clocks, etc. The mechanics of older buildings are simple yet mysterious.

In Horace Crowe's house, the only sounds were TV or radio broadcasts. Even the old "baby-burner" furnace in the floor was silent because it relied on hot air rising to conduct the heat. Ceilings were high with open transoms above the doorways to help keep the building cooler at ground level in th summer. All of the noise in their dodgy, poor neighborhood came from outside the house, where there was always some sort of drama going on.