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We were advised by a lawyer-type person from a tenant rights agency that, according to Illinois landlord-tenant law, our case counts as “constructive eviction” and our lease is immediately void. He seemed very confident that ours should be an easy lease to break and advised us to send written notice to our landlords and vacate any remaining possessions from the apartment as soon as possible.

On top of that, our landlords have not been communicating with us very well. I called them on Wednesday morning and left them a message saying that we’d been offered a TEDS apartment and we needed to hear back from them by Friday morning on how they felt about us moving out permanently. They have yet to return the call.

So, we are moving into Trinity Evangelical Divinity School on-campus housing on Friday, July 2. I’m pretty excited about the move. It means walking to work and to all of my classes and it means being able to walk to the library for research whenever I feel like it, which will come in handy as I complete my thesis research and writing this next year. There are also great on-campus resources and networks for families with children. The one downside is that it means Harley will be switching school districts in the fall, though we may be able to keep her at her old school for the summer. Hopefully the Bannockburn program will be just as good as the Vernon Hills program.

I need movers to help us unload our storage unit and bring it to our new apartment on Saturday, July 3 in the evening, and sometime next week during the day I will need a few people to help me clean my old apartment (what isn’t being remodeled, which may not be much). If you live near me and are interested in helping with either, e-mail me.

Thanks again everyone who has hosted us, offered to host us, or helped us clean, pack and move while we’ve been homeless. We’re especially grateful to both of our faith communities, the LDS church and the Covenant church. This disaster showed me that times like this are actually a great time to be an interfaith family. Having two religious communities to turn to for support is certainly better than one.

I will now return you to your regularly scheduled ClobberBlog programming.