New starts

2011 ended with a bit of unheavel for me.  After getting my first apartment in April, I was very wary of the neighbours and never wanted to push it, so in the main I worked Monday to Friday during office hours and rarely took on more than 3 clients in a day.  I continuted touring as well, which meant that I was often not using the apartment at all, but still soon after renewing the contract for a 2nd time for a further 6 months the trouble began.

The apartments had a committee and they had sent a letter direct to the letting agency complaining that my curtains were always drawn and that they were suspicious of the amount of visitors I was having.  I directly sent a letter of explanation.  My landlord already knew that I was working from the apartment, as I had told them and they were fine about it.  I also explained that my Mum had been having problems and that I had been staying with her, hence the curtains shut.  Thankfully the agency and my landlord were happy with this, but not the committee, who then continued to send me threatening letters.

The message threatened me with the Act of 1956, section 33.  For those of you that don't know it, it is concerned with brothels and there to protect people from being trafficed and abused and has absolutely nothing to do with independent Escorts.  This alone had no hold on me, but... they said that they would contact the police if I continued to work from the apartment and that they had ways of finding out who my visitors were and would get the police onto them as well.  I assumed by this they meant that they would take note of their vehicle registration numbers.  So despite the fact that I was doing nothing wrong I immediately decided to stop using my apartment. 

This meant that I was still having to pay the rent and in order to pay the rent I needed to continue touring and using other premises and make more excuses for not being home.  This has been stressful as I do also run a business and have a dependent at home, so things have had to suffer.  I've obviously not been able to save any money over the last 3 months or so and have had to dip into my savings to keep afloat, which is soul destroying, as I was starting to do really well and was more than half way towards paying off my first big loan.

Thankfully things have really started to turn around though and the pressure is nearly off.  I'm going to be moving from Worcester and taking myself down the M5 slightly and working 10 minutes off the M5, J10 instead.  The place is very different to the space I am used to but, it's perfect for what I need and I am really looking forward to it.  I am hoping to be there in time for the Gold Cup, which is great as I have wanted to work there during the gold cup for the last 2 years, but the prices of accomodation are way too high at that time.

Hopefully some of my regulars will follow me there, although I understand that some of them will not be able to travel that far and would like to thank them for all the lovely times we have had together.  I also look forward to meeting some new people and getting some new regulars.  I believe I have already met one, who was very sweet and helped me with which area to look at within Cheltenham.  I met him for the first time yesterday, as I'm currently working in cheltenham for the week and he was lovely.

So... fingers crossed for 2012 and new beginnings.  I believe I have learnt a lot from this experience and it's so good to see light at the end of the tunnel.

Kate x