2 & 1/2 months ago i had no place to live...

Now I have 2 leases in my bag and can't choose. What a dilemma. One apt is small & cute, not much room but cheap in price. 6 blks from the train but right around the corner from the bus. Laundromat is around the corner and so are corner stores. I know the area pretty well. I grew up in it and that's NOT a plus. The other, $252 extra a month. Lots of closet space, more bedroom space, one block from train. Not the greatest neighborhood either. But I'm still not sure. I mean I wouldn't be able to stay at the smaller one for more than 3yrs and who wants to move again? Looking for a new home, which is a job within itself and then having to move all my crap in it. Least with this small one it presents the challenge of not consuming so much.

The other I'm likely to stay more longer because of the room and so as long as the area isn't worse than what I've seen. My gut does however, tell me to choose the smaller one. That extra $252 a month might come in handy.

But something has got to give cause I've got to get out of where i am now. I left my g/f apt in Bk on Wednesday to come to rent out the living room of a guy I know, whom I met on the set of a movie last year. He has 2 other roommates. A $60 cab ride later I'm living with a guy who works for Verizon and a girl who hasn't paid rent in a month and who does drugs in his apt and he wants her out. He has 2 birds who like to make noises when the sun is up and when its down. They are usually quiet but on a day like this when I've been up for hours and trying to nap before I step out and the building across the street is doing construction and I want to rest, I am getting pissed.

The female who stays here has a boyfriend who is here day and night with her. Cozied up in that room for the past 2 wks. A black guy, she is a white French girl. Who I understand is also now an escort. I just told my new roommate that since he already can't get the girl out of his $2400/a month apartment and her b/f has been laying up in here for 2 wks he's not going to be able to get him out if he is in here for 30 days as if he lives here. This dude is hard headed. About a month ago he called me asking me for advice in getting his drug addicted roommate out of the apartment. And I told him, pack her shit, put it in storage and change the locks on the door. If she calls the cops you can easily tell them that she told you she was moving out and you don't know where her shit is as well you can say she's been gone a week.

Instead he called the cops on her who in turn told him he can't kick her out, unless of course he tries to take her to court. Which he has yet to do cause it's going to cost him money and take too much time. Did I add that he is not making any other efforts to get her out? According to him when I reiterated my advice about getting her out, he cannot lie to the cops cause he can go to jail. He's never been in jail and doesn't want to be. He stated in a convo earlier this week that she told the cops that she will pay the rent she owes end of the month and if she doesn't he is going to the cops to tell them how she lied to him because "you know lying to the police is not good."

Back to the black guy. I told my friendly associate that if he continues to let that man stay here he is going to have problems because now he will have 2 drug addicted bums on his hands. His response as he walked away, "trust me I already have problems." Hey I wash my hands. He insists he is going to call the cops again and I ask him not to do it while the kids and I, or especially the kids alone, are here. Do it when I'm we're not. Or warn me so we won't be there. I warned him calling the cops again can cause problems for more than just her. It can cause issues for him as well as the others that live there. I mean even if he called narcotics, as he stated he would, and they came over here and arrested here, what does that do? She may be in jail for a few nights, maybe depending on her record and then she will come right back to the door cause he won't change the locks or throw out her shit.

Poor Eddie, nice guy but what an IDIOT.

And to make matters worse on me I have gigs coming up the next week. And my kids have to be here, my gigs are during the week and just yesterday around 6am Ms. Thing came in the apartment with her man and 2 of his friends. One who decided to approach me as I slept on the sofa and tap me on my ass to ask me some absurd question which I can't recall and walk on the blanket that my son was sleeping on on the floor. I had to shout him out. "what the fuck you don't see someone sleeping there?" his drunk ass apologized. When they all came out the room a few hours later I made it known to him that if he ever touched me again I was going to punch him in his fuckin face. He caught me when I was sleeping. Had I been awake something hot would have been in his face.

Him and his coked up friend turned out to be alright as I spoke to them later round 9am as they drank beer. They both tried to get my number. His fast talking friend, clearly high off coke wanted to take me out to dinner, when I refused he said, "lunch? Brunch? Coffee? A sandwich? Bag of chips? Slice of cake? Gum?" He was sorta charming and since he did drugs I thought sex with him is probably dynamite. But I had to decline. He spoke as if he were one of those "knowledge kickin brothas." Everything was "peace. And excuse me ma'am." Quick witted responses always at a fast pace with clever dialogue. He was hilarious. But not so much for me to pass along his digits. And yea he was a bonafide coke head. He and his friend admitted he was.

And so is the roommate, Juliet and her man. I can just look at them and tell. I left roach infestation and flies and mice. To come to less roach infestation, higher mice population and flies, loud birds and coke heads. Least the neighborhood is better.

Edit: I started this post on Thursday, it's now Saturday morning that I added all these details.