Who is actually stuck in the middle?

I swear the apartment/lease situation in my house is a mess. It is like a soap opera.

Background: The boys on the first floor do not shovel or take the garbage out, and every time one of them showers, there is a stream of water that runs out the shower's window down the driveway and they watch us from their couch when we shovel and barely say hi when we say hi first and do not talk to us in general. Apparently their apartment is a mess, per a recent viewing by the people on the third floor.

I am pretty good friends with the couple who lives on the third floor. Third floor woman and I are both grad students, but in different departments, and are involved with the student council. She just finished her masters though. Lucky.

My roommate and I have lived on the second floor for 3 years. We tell our landlord if there is a problem. Our lease ends August 1.

The third floor tenants and my roommate and I shovel and take out the garbage and grill and have people over and share the back porch (unbeknown to my roommate apparently) and share the driveway and coordinate things and talk (well, really I talk to the people upstairs).

Issue: The boys on the first floor are finally moving out on September 1. The couple on the third floor wants to move to the first floor to have more space and is sort of going month-by-month right now I think. I want my own apartment. I am 29, and it is time, for sure. HOPEFULLY, I will only want to live in this exact spot one more year. SO, ideally I would be able to take over the third floor lease. Because I am moving out, my roommate's boyfriend is moving in, ahead of when they apparently would have chosen to otherwise move in together. Not that they did not intend to in the next year, but that is a different story that did impact my desire to move out.

Our landlord asked if my roommate and I could extend our lease until September 1. This worked out okay, as her boyfriend's roommate(/friend/landlord) also said it was okay for him to stay until Sept 1. Good so far.

Third floor couple saw first floor apartment, and it is a mess. They wanted to make sure that a professional cleaner came in before their stuff did. Then the landlord decided that the bathroom actually needed to be redone, it was such a disaster from water going into the window and whatever else. He says it will take at least 2 weeks.

Then all hell broke loose.

I leave in less than two weeks for a course and vacation. I know I can stay in this apartment until September 1st, but do not want to extend past that. I already am staying longer than I thought I would when I told my roommate I would move out, and it would be weird for my roommate's boyfriend to essentially move into "our" apartment and then have me move out. I am very sensitive to that, as I can imagine if I were in their situation how I would feel.

The landlord has sent weird emails with unnecessary personal commentary on the situation. He does not understand why we have to ask for my roommate's "permission" to have me stay in this apartment while he redoes the first floor bathroom and then everyone can switch around within the house. He does not understand why it would be such a big deal for my roommate, roommate's boyfriend, and I to live together for 2 weeks. The landlord obviously wants us all to stay so he would not have to find a new tenant for the third floor. She and I are basically okay about the situation because we are forwarding emails we receive, but it could get tense, and that is not worth it.

At this point, I am looking for other apartments and just want to know where I will be living Sept 1. It does not bother me that this whole situation is difficult, because eventually I will know where I will live. The only thing I really worry about is whether I would be able to get movers at this point. Third floor woman really wants me to stay in the house. Roommate wishes she and boyfriend could "help me out" and "let" me stay a couple of extra weeks, but I do not need to be helped out. Landlord makes my roommate look like the bad person in emails, as if it is her fault that the boys made a disaster of their bathroom that needs to be fixed.

I just want everyone to realize that this is not about waiting to have work done so we can all stay in the house or being flexible or having two weeks of tension living with my roommate and her boyfriend that could go bad. Aside from weird emails and misunderstandings, the situation in and of itself is not personal. Let me be selfish for a moment though...

I JUST WANT MY OWN APARTMENT.