You know, today we were to be inspected, but that changed when my mother called the office yesterday to schedule for today. When my mother did that, the executive director (ED) told her not to worry because he had things todo today and asked if Friday would be good for the inspection. What I find interesting is that when we were told of the inspection, the first go around, it was less than 24 hours. In fact, it was that morning, as far as I remember. That day, we were asked to call about a time for it to happen again, as far as I remember. Later that day, my mother and I were told that something had come up, and the ED forgot about the inspection. It was the next day when the inspection happened. During the so-called inspection, all the ED did was take a couple of pictures of my room, a couple of pictures, and a couple of pictures of my servers. My mother later told me that the pictures he took of my room were of the windows. If that’s true, then that means he is going to claim that they are blocked by some means and fail to understand that the windows are still accessible as a fire exit.
I know that because there was one inspector who did a United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) inspection and asked my mother move things away from one of her windows. My mother told the inspector that she could, but due to her back, it would do little to help her out in such an emergency. See, my mother had back surgery where she has nuts, bolts, and rods in her back. That means with all that in my mother's back, she is lucky to get out of bed on her own without needing any help. Hell, she can’t even stay standing for very long without needing help. So going out a window is not really an option for my mother. The only option my mother has is going out the front or back door, even in an emergency. So I think HUD needs to rethink what a “Fire Exit” is, since they are treating all the tenants the same. I, for one, will not abandon my mother because HUD will not understand what a Full-Time Primary Caregiver does or means.
Now, with that being said, let’s go back to the inspection that was originally scheduled for today but got moved to Friday instead. As I said, my mother called the office yesterday because that’s when we finally got the notice about this inspection. My mother explained to the ED that she just started feeling better after dealing with some sort of bug she had and asked if it could be as late as possible. That was when the unexpected happened. The ED said not to worry about it because he had things to do that day and asked if 3 PM on Friday was a good day and time for the inspection. Mind you, I say this was unexpected because when my mother tried to move the first inspection, the ED told her that he didn’t care about what it looked like in the unit and that it had to be done on the day he scheduled it, regardless. Why the change of heart for this next inspection? Is he still being threatened with being fired? Did he see that maybe there is more going on in this unit than he understands? To be honest, I have no clue. Hell, it could be that I’m starting to host a platform that he can’t control on some level, which means whatever he does, I can post about it, and he can do nothing about it.
As for HUD, it still does what it does best, which is not a damn thing that the tenant can see. Hell, as I said, it treats all tenants the same. The problem with that is not all tenants are the same. In fact, every tenant is different with different problems. Hell, when I was working for the office, I started hearing about tenants dying in the units for one reason or another. It got to the point where I hoped that I would not find a tenant dead in a unit. That’s when I started to see that not all tenants are the same. That’s when I started to see that there were tenants who had it better than me, while there were other tenants who had it worse than me. Now, to HUD, they don’t care because they don’t see the tenants in any way, shape, or form. The only thing HUD cares about is the money that they can get from the tenants, and they will do so by any means necessary. I would challenge HUD to send someone from D.C., but I doubt whoever they send would see any problem since, as I said, HUD just doesn’t care about the tenants.
In the end, it is what it is, and all I can do is make the most of what I have.