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• Olympics Eviction Update

  Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008 6:01PM / Standard Entry / Members only
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  Got the news from the lawyer a few days ago...

  It's signed.

  My Olympic eviction nightmare, apparently (knock on wood), is over. The conditions: I get to stay on until my original contract expires, at a 15% increase of rent, instead of 30%. Plus I can never, never stay in the flat again! So it's another year in this pad for me; I get to watch the Olympics on my couch here afterall. No corporate seats up for grabs in my place anymore. One strange catch: the new contract has to stay with the lawyer's so we can't show it to anybody. But heck, I don't mind! Plus the landord has to pick up rent for the rest of the year from the lawyer!

  I am now hoping to hold an "I survived an eviction for the Olympics" party, especially now that the seedy mafia real estate agent is out of the picture. He's the "relative" that SO wanted to see the balcony to see what flowers would look best there. I think I might hold the party on the very day the landlord said I had to be out of the house.

  It has been an absolutely mamoth ordeal; I saw 20 plus flats as a back-up, got advice from everyone I knew, did research on the net for other people who'd been in similar situations...

  Once I got the lawyer I could focus on other things. Like work! Since my last post I've been acting on a Beijing indie feature film (a Chinese comedy that's very Korean in style), and am in Changchun now, where I've been for the past week, still working on the war movie!

  Good to move on!

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