HoneyPooh
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Our landlady has informed us that she has a family member who needs to rent the house we have been living in for four years. We need to be out by May 1st. Needless to say I'm stressing! 
I've been scouring the real estate agencies and the newspapers for available rentals, but in southern NJ there are not very many year round rentals available. People can get way to much money just renting in the summer. Here is what I need advice on: there is a single mom in my office who was told by her landlord last summer that she needed to be out by this summer (June 1st). Since then she has not looked at all and has no money(but two weeks ago she took a trip to Cancun for a week with her tax return money). This week when I mentioned I needed to move as well she began to finally worry about finding a place(I seemed to be more worried about her having to move than she was prior to this). Unfortunately her plan seems to be to tail me around while I look! She never picks up the local papers or calls the agencies. She waits until she knows I did, then asks for details about what I found. I feel bad for her but I'm considering not telling her a thing anymore. She asked me today if I looked at anything and when I told her I looked at one last night, she grilled me for info about it and wanted the landlords phone #, I lied and told her I didn't have it on me, so she plans to ride by the house to see if he's there working on it. Am I silly to be upset? We just looked at it last night and were thinking about it today so what if I wanted to rent the house? Do I get in a bidding war with my co-worker? I only told her the details about this home because I know she can't afford it, heck we can barely afford it! But when I asked her why she would look at it for that price, she told me she thinks she can just about swing it. The rent she pays now is $400 a month cheaper than what this landlord is asking and she says every month that she almost doesn't have her rent money, so I'm predicting she wouldn't be able to meet her rent in the new place either (every month she has either her gas, electric or phone turned off for non-payment and has to borrow money to get them re-connected). She likes the idea of this home because it's not through a real estate agent so they won't do a credit check(her words). My husband wanted to think about it for today and let the landlord know tomorrow if we wanted it, which was fine with the landlord, but now I'm upset about my co-worker looking to snatch it out from under me. Help! What do I do?!! I want her to find a place but not at my expense! Even if neither of us decide to rent this home, what do I tell her the next time she asks me what I found in the papers or by phone calls?
I've been scouring the real estate agencies and the newspapers for available rentals, but in southern NJ there are not very many year round rentals available. People can get way to much money just renting in the summer. Here is what I need advice on: there is a single mom in my office who was told by her landlord last summer that she needed to be out by this summer (June 1st). Since then she has not looked at all and has no money(but two weeks ago she took a trip to Cancun for a week with her tax return money). This week when I mentioned I needed to move as well she began to finally worry about finding a place(I seemed to be more worried about her having to move than she was prior to this). Unfortunately her plan seems to be to tail me around while I look! She never picks up the local papers or calls the agencies. She waits until she knows I did, then asks for details about what I found. I feel bad for her but I'm considering not telling her a thing anymore. She asked me today if I looked at anything and when I told her I looked at one last night, she grilled me for info about it and wanted the landlords phone #, I lied and told her I didn't have it on me, so she plans to ride by the house to see if he's there working on it. Am I silly to be upset? We just looked at it last night and were thinking about it today so what if I wanted to rent the house? Do I get in a bidding war with my co-worker? I only told her the details about this home because I know she can't afford it, heck we can barely afford it! But when I asked her why she would look at it for that price, she told me she thinks she can just about swing it. The rent she pays now is $400 a month cheaper than what this landlord is asking and she says every month that she almost doesn't have her rent money, so I'm predicting she wouldn't be able to meet her rent in the new place either (every month she has either her gas, electric or phone turned off for non-payment and has to borrow money to get them re-connected). She likes the idea of this home because it's not through a real estate agent so they won't do a credit check(her words). My husband wanted to think about it for today and let the landlord know tomorrow if we wanted it, which was fine with the landlord, but now I'm upset about my co-worker looking to snatch it out from under me. Help! What do I do?!! I want her to find a place but not at my expense! Even if neither of us decide to rent this home, what do I tell her the next time she asks me what I found in the papers or by phone calls?
