Thank you all for you wonderful advice, suggestions, and encouragement. I do have a rental/lease agreement with her. It is very generic, and all wording about "landlord/ tenant" has been changed to say "roomates". My best friend is an attorney, and she has told me that I have no "rights" with this agreement. So I am screw**".

I know that I have to get out ASAP, and I am working on that. Yes, the prices are high, since the owners know they can get it. However, I am seeing a place tonight that is above my price range but when I talked to the owner, he said that he would be willing to come down in price and we could talk tonight. So that is encouraging. There are over 5 colleges/universities in Fort Wayne, and I am finding that the owners of the apartments that have not been rented to the students are willing to negotiate the prices. So that is good.

I wish I could lock my bedroom door, but my kitties would go crazy locked in
there all day. I have shut the door in the past and they have torn up the room and Tabby (20 years old) decided to pee on the bed rather than use the litterbox. So, that won't work.

I am the most hurt, I think, because I would never treat a friend this way, and so I am shocked that someone would do this to me. And I know that she is being this way because she is influenced by him. And I am concerned that he is bullying her, maybe even being physically abisive. I know that the next time (if he does) that he talks to me in that way, I will be filing a restraining order against him. Believe me, I WANT to talk to her, but she won't even answer my calls, or return my voicemails. I will be paying her for September, and I am going to write her a note that we need to talk and I would like her to call me at her earliest convenience. I know that she is scared to talk to me because she knows what she is doing is inconsiderate and wrong. I am not going to tell her that, because she knows it already. I simply want to ask her for the courtesy to give me 24 hours notice before showing the house. Besides, why would she want me walking in when she is showing it? I mean that just seems odd. By the way, the house is "for sale by owner" AND priced about $40,000 above what she can expect to get based on the comps in the area. (I have a friend who is a realtor and she did some checking for me!)

I just cannot believe that this is happening to me! But I am doing all that I can to get out ASAP. If I haven't found something by the end of September, my friend has told me that I can store my things and move into her basement. I can have my girls with me, so that is good. But I need to try to find something and only move once, if that is possible. I am 46 years old... way too old to be going through something like this!

Thanks again for all of your input and great suggestions! And Catty1, thanks for the links. I have checked most of them already, but I will continue to look. Donna and her girls Tabby and Sasha!