>Based on the history of our conversations, though a lease was not signed, I was led to expect to move in.  I have let my current landlord know that I will be moving, my child is transferring schools and now the new tenet is due in my unit very shortly.  I am essentially left in a place of homelessness.

>I've found their lack of communication and action appalling in general.

>What can I do?

Call a lawyer. This is called promissory estoppel. You made choices any reasonable person would have based on the discussion. You may be able to force them to give you an apartment.

First and most important is to get a roof over your head asap, even if temporary. Don’t leave yourself hanging.

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It has to be documented pretty well, though. A promissory estoppel case is hard to pull off.

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I applied for a place last week, was told I was approved. Waited days for the paperwork. Then the property manager decided to rent the place to a friend instead. Thankfully I don’t have to move for a few months but it sucks.

I bet you have a very punchable face and ur a fucking creeper.

Show us on the doll where the landlord hurt you.

Landlords do seem to white knight for each other, but it sometimes seems to me like a kind of trauma-bonding.

The kind of trauma I figure often tends to inherently come with going in to the discipline believing that combining the fields of of real estate speculation, with a side of human psychology, was going to ever be anything like reliably easy money.

>it needs to be impeccable along with equally impeccable employment history and landlord references.

IDK how old the joke is that goes something like "if landlords only had other landlords to pick from as customers then they'd have no available customers" is but it must be pretty old..

I see you need a place to live and landlords are banned - got a million or so for a condo?

Given the current housing shortages caused by rampant NIMBYism and downright idiotic housing policies which make new construction incredibly expensive landlords get to be very picky when choosing tenants - why take a risk on a single mother with spotty employment history who is quite likely to fall behind on rent when there's 10 well-paid professionals with no kids and perfect credit score fighting over a pen to sign the lease?

I'd be less disappointed if you said you were strictly in it for the cash, martyr complexes don't tend to be appealing in anyone.

Oh, I'm not a landlord, I don't want to deal with mao-worshipping deadbeats like you. When time comes to move I'll just sell my place to the highest bidder who has the resources to boot you to the curb as soon as you stop paying, be it some large local slumlord or BlackRock. Funny thing is I got my place cheap and could rent it out cheap because it m not hurting for money but since MA loves deadbeats you'll be renting it from some slumlord and having your wallet raped instead.

Also my other question still stands - got a million for a condo? Or $300 per night for a hotel, perhaps?

>why take a risk on a single mother with spotty employment history who is quite likely to fall behind on rent

Yes, it seems unlikely that a market-rate rental in Brookline(!!) is what's being discussed, if all that's true and yet this particular firm had already been working with OP for a month, regardless. "Spotty employment history" but they get denied on their credit so their single-mom income is fine, I guess? for a market-rate rental in Brookline? ????

But if it's not market rate situation then where all the "well-paid professionals" fit in to the story is anyone's guess. Maybe they are a product of your imagination.

>I don't want to deal with mao-worshipping deadbeats like you

My professional title is "Mixed-signal integrated circuit design consultant." Mao-worshipping deadbeat is just a hobby.

>Also my other question still stands - got a million for a condo? Or $300 per night for a hotel, perhaps?

You could at least offer to take me out for a nice dinner first, I'm kind of old-fashioned and like to get to know a person..

But there’s no dinner my mao-loving friend, just the need for a wheelbarrow full of cash if you need a place to live. Landlords are banned, what do you along with everyone else new to the area do - buy a place for a million or so each time you need to move and lose a cool hundred grand or so in selling and re-buying expenses each time you need to move elsewhere, or spend more on a couple days at a hotel than you would have spent on a month at an apartment owned by one of those rent-seeking parasites? Use that gray squishy stuff between your ears, it’s got to be at least somewhat functional with that fancy title of yours!

The scenario of "landlords are banned" seems so unlikely to happen in the forseeable future that what happens after hardly seems worth fretting over. Is this a possibility that regularly concerns you?

But the thrust of my observation (and it was just an observation) was more along the lines that some aspects landlording seem like their own worst punishment - not exactly a Mao-inspired call to arms.

Anyway, not sure what it is you do/did in life but I'm glad I didn't do whatever it is, you seem unhappy.

They say they are "innovators, independent go getters who take risks and earn that money" but are the first to go "daddy guvment please bail me out from by risky behavior the property I ran into the ground isn't making money and COVID stuff happened!"