Homeless and heading home.

So, our new place in West Vancouver lasted a whole week. The woman living on the top floor of the house turned out to be the most overwhelming source of negativity I've ever come across. Within 24hrs of moving into the suite we had been shouted at (and I really do mean shouted) twice in the most rude, aggressive and obnoxious way possible. She was beyond offensive and left us with no choice. We could never have shared a space with this woman, we had to leave.

The final few bits will be collected from the suite tomorrow by the removal company and put into storage with the rest of our belongings. We hand the keys back to the landlord tomorrow. As it stands the landlord is refusing to return our deposit and seems determined to take us to court for breach of contract. I think in time she will let this drop but we'll see. We have witnesses to the way the neighbour behaved and we have been more than reasonable, offering a very fair cash payment for the time we have been in there and the inconvenience. Trouble is, she's close friends with the upstairs tenant and has been lied to about what really happened. Hopefully court can be avoided but if not, we feel very confident we will win. Fingers crossed it wont come to that.

So, tomorrow we head home to the UK for ten days. We will return to Vancouver with nowhere to call home but hopefully if we really go for it we *may* find somewhere for the 15th. If not, I guess it'll be hotels for a couple of weeks. Not ideal but sadly it can't be avoided. The prospect of leaving all our family and friends to return home to uncertainty is not exactly thrilling either of us right now. Luckily, we are both pretty positive people and quite frankly we're just grateful that this nasty neighbour showed her true colours so early on. It made moving out very easy as everything was still packed. We both feel pretty proud of ourselves for being so brave and standing up for ourselves. We deserve better and refuse to be treated that way by anyone. Even if it turns out that this cost us upwards of $2000, it's worth it to have avoided such a huge bullet. Thanks again you-know-verse, better late than never!