We have received some potentially shocking news though not totally unexpected. We have a 2-year lease on the rental which ends October this year and there has been some speculations of the intent of the owner to sell the house therefore we would be evicted. It seems our suspicions are confirmed. We often receive mail at the house addressed personally to the owner. Usually these are direct marketing mail from certain companies and are told to simply bin the letters. However a couple of days ago we received a letter from a REAL ESTATE COMPANY personally addressed to the owner. We bear in mind that we do not rent through a real estate company, this is a private rental, our rent is paid directly to the owner. So a letter from a real estate company arrives, and it seems the letter was expected, we were instructed to place the letter back in the box so it can be collected for the property owner.

This can mean only one thing - they are intending to sell the house. There is no other reason for any contacts with a real estate company. With the lease ending in just a few weeks, this seems more than coincidental.

Moving house would be traumatic enough given Sally's health condition, the fact she is housebound, and she cannot go out of the house.

However there are far more serious implications - the housing crisis in Perth. Rentals are extremely hard to find, there are always several applicants for each rental advertised, and it is often the case of the highest bidder wins as many offer to pay rents higher than advertised in an effort to secure a lease on the property. But with Sally's health conditions our means are limited. We seemed destined to be on the streets. For the first time in my life I would about to experience life living on the streets.

We often hear on the news of people with even good jobs, even whole families, living in cars on the streets cos there is simply nowhere to live. There are simply not enough dwellings to go around. Of course it is often the stories of those of young families with babies that makes it onto the media.

This is not the first time we had no house to live in. When we came back from America we had nowhere to live cos I had ended the lease on my apartment before i went to America. However we could always stay at mother's until we find a rental, and in those days there was no housing crisis, rentals were easy and relatively cheap to find. So we just stayed at mothers until we found a rental. This option is no longer available. Mother is gone. With no mother we are on own own.

And of course we have the dreaded "The Three Weeks" coming up starting July 7 this year. Being connected with the lunar anniversary of the destruction of the Jewish Temples, the Three Weeks is when disasters and calamities befalls the Jewish people. For some reason, as I shared in my stories and previous blogs, such disasters also happens to ME!!! Each year without fail, for as far back as I can remember, as far as I have records of it, disasters and calamities ALWAYS happens to me during The Three Weeks. Last year it was during The Three Weeks when Sally's current health problems first manifested - we are still dealing with those health problems nearly a year later with no end in sight.

Therefore I am predicting that our eviction notice would come during The Three Weeks. This will not be the first time this has happened. The last time we were evicted, back in 2003, was also during The Three Weeks, and was also because the owner wanted to sell the house. There was no housing crisis back then so we easily found another rental - across the road!! But other disasters happened that year. The head gasket of the car we had back then blew up costing $1500 to replace, this on top of moving expenses. And the landlord of the previous property would not return our bond cos she deemed the house to be "dirty" in spite of me spending all weekend cleaning it. This all occurred during The Three Weeks of 2003. It was only when we made it obvious we would take the landlord to court that she finally paid us back our bond.

That was 2003 when there was no housing crisis. Now 9 years later in 2012 a lot has changed. There is now a housing crisis, a serious shortage of rentals, and very high rents for properties that are available. Our rent is currently well below the market rates. That seems destined to change even if we do manage to find a rental. But most difficult is to find a rental at all.

And forget about public housing - there is a 2 - 3 year waiting list for even urgent cases!! It will still mean 2 - 3 years on the streets.

Football tipping..... I managed to pick 4 from 6 including my beloved Magpies who had a win over the Weevils - West Coast Eagles - and so now currently sitting where we belong, on top of the ladder !!!!