I didn't get to the meeting. My daughter needed to run in to town and we didn't get back in time. My neighbor stopped over this morning and filled me in on what was said.

Since I only have a month-to-month lease, they don't have to give me much notice. They said that I should have been prepared to have to move at any time since my one-year lease expired and my landlord didn't renew it. My neighbor who has the same landlord still has 6 months left on their lease, so the city has to buy them out. They'll get $4200 back and I'll only get my $400 security deposit. The city administrator said they're going to speak with their lawyer to see how much notice I need to have, but right now it's November 1, or 60 days from the time of notice, whichever is longer. Well, I haven't gotten notice and they don't close until 9/20, so I'm looking at mid November. They're also going to see if they should reimburse me anything. Yeah, sure, the lawyer is going to tell them to pay me if they don't have to? Had I had a one-year lease, I'd be getting back $4800 since it would have just been renewed two days ago. You better believe I'm pissed.

The mayor said we're members of the community and he doesn't want to see us kicked out with no help from the city, but we'll see about that. Everyone else was wanting to just make us move unceremoniously, with no assistance.

They paid $120,000 for both houses (barely fair market value) and were going to offer them to us for $1, but then decided they couldn't survive being moved. Now they're going to be used for firefighter practice. The floors in this house are gorgeous hardwood, and they're going to be turned to ashes.

The city administrator said she'd get back to me within a week to let me know what their lawyer says. I'm not expecting good news, that's for sure.