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Shadowsville,#2Consumer Comment
Sat, August 30, 2008
You signed an agreement to rent space from U-haul for some amount per month. This amount is a regularly recurring bill, and it is non-negotiable. This isn't some handshake agreement between friends that can be adjusted on-the-fly. You are very lucky U-Haul has let you slide as long as they have. Your agreement probably states that if you are 14 or 30 days late, they can clear your stuff out and sell it at auction three days after that. Regardless of whether you are on welfare, regardless of WHERE your income (if any) is coming from, you will always need to pay your bills. You need to add up all your bills (rent, rent on storage spaces, all the credit cards, the phone, the gas, electric, water, car payment, internet, cable, things like Netflix, and on and on) and see how much you need to be earning to be able to pay them. Before you accept a job, figure out how much it will pay per month. If it will pay less than you are spending, you will either need to get a second job or cut down on expenses. If you can't pay your bills, the business will eventually stop bothering with you and take whatever measures they can (kick you out of your apartment, sell your stuff in storage, repossess your car, cut off your phone, water, electricity, or gas, or whatever depending on what company you're dealing with, of course).
Peter
Pony,#3Consumer Comment
Fri, August 29, 2008
I find it incredibly ridiculous that you feel you are being ripped-off simply because you failed to uphold your end of the contractual agreement you signed with U-Haul. It is not U-Haul's problem that you moved to a new location with no job and no hopes of finding one, that you did not budget appropriately and take unforeseen expenses into consideration. And as for your comment about "how dare they rip off a welfare recipient..." A) You were not ripped off, as explained above. B) Many people would consider a 'welfare recipient' to be ripping off our government at the expense of the taxpayers. You have no sympathy here!