So Hubby and I got kicked out of our apartment recently (no eviction because we settled). Came up a bit short on rent due to cut hours at my former employer, couldn't make it up in time even with new job, blah blah blah. We had to be out by midnight yesterday, and had hotel room booked at a (to tell the truth) crappy extended stay place, and it was going to drain just about every cent we had, but we needed a roof.
We called Crappy Extended Stay Place (CESP) three different times to ensure that our medically necessary companion animals would be allowed in. They said as long as we had the paperwork (which we do) it would be fine.
Yesterday at 7pm we show up at CESP with the paperwork. Front desk douchdongle takes one look at it and says "they aren't service animals, we won't take them." DaFug? I'm not sure if hotels are under the same rules as apartments, but housing HAS to allow you to have an emotional support animal, just like they'd allow you to have a wheelchair, if said animal is required to assist you with a documented disability. Anyway, they told us it would be OK, so they lied. There's NO WAY we're getting rid of our beloved fur babies, and there's nobody around who could watch them.
Also, there's no way we could afford a normal hotel room with the money we had available. After two nights we'd be broke (which is why we booked at CESP in the first place).
Fortunately the story has a happy ending. I work in a hotel. I called the front desk where I work, frantic that we are literally on the street with no place to go. Our hotels offer HUGE discounts to employees. My coworker said "just come here. We'll get it figured out." He then spoke to my manager, who is putting us up in the same hotel where I work until the 2nd (and after that I have another employee stay booked), at the employee rate. When I thanked them both, almost in tears, the manager said "I take care of my people, don't worry about it."
We are in a comfortable place with great beds, free breakfast, and the world's shortest commute for me. For about 5 bucks a day more than we'd be paying in rent if we were still in our old home. Best of all, Hubby finally has freedom. He was actually crying today over being able to just leave the building and go get a coffee without having to have someone haul his wheelchair down the stairs.
We called Crappy Extended Stay Place (CESP) three different times to ensure that our medically necessary companion animals would be allowed in. They said as long as we had the paperwork (which we do) it would be fine.
Yesterday at 7pm we show up at CESP with the paperwork. Front desk douchdongle takes one look at it and says "they aren't service animals, we won't take them." DaFug? I'm not sure if hotels are under the same rules as apartments, but housing HAS to allow you to have an emotional support animal, just like they'd allow you to have a wheelchair, if said animal is required to assist you with a documented disability. Anyway, they told us it would be OK, so they lied. There's NO WAY we're getting rid of our beloved fur babies, and there's nobody around who could watch them.
Also, there's no way we could afford a normal hotel room with the money we had available. After two nights we'd be broke (which is why we booked at CESP in the first place).
Fortunately the story has a happy ending. I work in a hotel. I called the front desk where I work, frantic that we are literally on the street with no place to go. Our hotels offer HUGE discounts to employees. My coworker said "just come here. We'll get it figured out." He then spoke to my manager, who is putting us up in the same hotel where I work until the 2nd (and after that I have another employee stay booked), at the employee rate. When I thanked them both, almost in tears, the manager said "I take care of my people, don't worry about it."
We are in a comfortable place with great beds, free breakfast, and the world's shortest commute for me. For about 5 bucks a day more than we'd be paying in rent if we were still in our old home. Best of all, Hubby finally has freedom. He was actually crying today over being able to just leave the building and go get a coffee without having to have someone haul his wheelchair down the stairs.
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