The past two weeks have been bittersweet for us as we prepare to leave our little stone cottage on the farm. Although in the past year we haven't taken as many photos as you might expect, we've been making a point to capture as many moments as we can since we found out that we are moving.
It is a sad thing for us, feeling as though the expectation
of an honest relationship between landlord and tenant is far more difficult to
find than it ought to be. We are being wrongfully evicted after we discovered
that for the past year, we have been paying for our neighbor's water.
This isn't legal - eviction as a means of retaliation,
particularly where a tenant has tried to resolve an issue with utilities, is
specifically prohibited in the Landlord Tenant Act of 1951. However, the stress
and discomfort of living just a few hundred feet away from people who wouldn't
think twice about doing this to a young family with a baby is enough for us to
know that we're not welcome here anymore and deplete our desire to stay.
We have had a good year. It was our dream home when we found
it and I know that some day we will find another dream home. Right now, we are
not sure where we're going. We had hoped to buy a house, but that isn't
feasible and we're having a hard time finding an apartment in our price range.
It is heartbreaking to leave this beautiful farm in search of the cheapest
apartment we can find. We will likely be moving back into a city - something we
had hoped to be done with. But throughout all of this, we believe that God
knows the plans He has in store for us. Plans to prosper and not to harm us.
Plans to give us hope and a future. Please keep us in your thoughts and
prayers.
