Ot - yeah, maybe I am grumpy....
Sorry your having a crappy day. My day was pretty good UNTIL about 6pm when the power went out in 1/2 my house (my neighbors also). Then the power went out in the WHOLE house. So the twins were screaming their 3yr old hearts out while we were scrambling to find flashlights. I managed to dress myself and the girls holding a flashlight. By the time I loaded them and my 2 older kids in the van the power crews were here. So we sat in the car waitng for the power to be restored.
FleurDeLis
on 1/13/12 11:43 am
on 1/13/12 11:43 am
Here I thought your post was going to be about the Browns.
I feel your pain. I had to go into Cleveland today and I don't think they own any snow plows. We normally don't get lake effect snow but last night we did. I long for the days the Civil Service Commission secretary lived two doors away and a police officer's mom was across the street. Guess why. At least since we moved to the next county they plow a few times a day. House taxes are 5 times what we used to pay, but I don't mind when I hear the sounds of that plow blade.
Got home and found out the cat with heart failure (new) needs another medication but this time WalMart won't have it. Have to go across half the county to get it from a vet. There goes the morning. I don't want to drive in this. Of course, I have to go through The Mistake on the Lake to get there.
I had a car like that. It would get stuck in park and be impossible to move. Frozen solid. Would wait a minute or two and hope it was loosened up. Jiggling the whole car might help. Had to be real careful when taking it out of drive because if the shift lever wasn't in the position it liked exactly when put into park, watch out.
My mini-van? I had to call AAA twice in one day to get into my own driveway last winter. The car got stuck going in halfway off the street, halfway on the sidewalk. Even they had trouble doing it. They party who didn't clear our driveway? No problems for him. Just left it there the third time. Let him figure out how to move it so he can get up the drive in his car.
My great grandmother used to make butter to sell during the depression. Some of it would go rancid so my great uncle would buy it from her and then bury it. The county seat had 8,000 people and they lived in a place with no more than 100 people.
Being a landlord, I get to deal with Dominion a lot. At least the last turnover I didn't have to be there. The tenant actually remembered to call the gas company to have the meter read. One idiot forgot to pay her bill and it ended up not only getting shut off (for this they don't want or need you there) but it caused a leak so they had to dig the pipe up and replace it from the street to the house. Luckily this happenend after they were forced to pay for this rather than the homeowner. Took almost 2 years to get the sidewalk repaired.
Don't worry about not being there. Usually the meter reader would come, park on the next street over, yell "gas" and when he got no reply move on. Preparing for that required surveillance so we could see both streets at once. Cleveland--"You Have To Be Tough."
One more thing. Just found out last night my Section 8 tenant let a convicted sex offender move in. He posted pictures of himself sitting on my fence on Facebook. Lots of pictures of him inside. Now do I throw her out and lose rent until summer (and she would lose her Section 8 voucher) or just wait until Spring? If it was a drug dealing baby daddy boyfriend out they both go now. But I think he's a relative. This explains why her water bill doubled.
I feel your pain. I had to go into Cleveland today and I don't think they own any snow plows. We normally don't get lake effect snow but last night we did. I long for the days the Civil Service Commission secretary lived two doors away and a police officer's mom was across the street. Guess why. At least since we moved to the next county they plow a few times a day. House taxes are 5 times what we used to pay, but I don't mind when I hear the sounds of that plow blade.
Got home and found out the cat with heart failure (new) needs another medication but this time WalMart won't have it. Have to go across half the county to get it from a vet. There goes the morning. I don't want to drive in this. Of course, I have to go through The Mistake on the Lake to get there.
I had a car like that. It would get stuck in park and be impossible to move. Frozen solid. Would wait a minute or two and hope it was loosened up. Jiggling the whole car might help. Had to be real careful when taking it out of drive because if the shift lever wasn't in the position it liked exactly when put into park, watch out.
My mini-van? I had to call AAA twice in one day to get into my own driveway last winter. The car got stuck going in halfway off the street, halfway on the sidewalk. Even they had trouble doing it. They party who didn't clear our driveway? No problems for him. Just left it there the third time. Let him figure out how to move it so he can get up the drive in his car.
My great grandmother used to make butter to sell during the depression. Some of it would go rancid so my great uncle would buy it from her and then bury it. The county seat had 8,000 people and they lived in a place with no more than 100 people.
Being a landlord, I get to deal with Dominion a lot. At least the last turnover I didn't have to be there. The tenant actually remembered to call the gas company to have the meter read. One idiot forgot to pay her bill and it ended up not only getting shut off (for this they don't want or need you there) but it caused a leak so they had to dig the pipe up and replace it from the street to the house. Luckily this happenend after they were forced to pay for this rather than the homeowner. Took almost 2 years to get the sidewalk repaired.
Don't worry about not being there. Usually the meter reader would come, park on the next street over, yell "gas" and when he got no reply move on. Preparing for that required surveillance so we could see both streets at once. Cleveland--"You Have To Be Tough."
One more thing. Just found out last night my Section 8 tenant let a convicted sex offender move in. He posted pictures of himself sitting on my fence on Facebook. Lots of pictures of him inside. Now do I throw her out and lose rent until summer (and she would lose her Section 8 voucher) or just wait until Spring? If it was a drug dealing baby daddy boyfriend out they both go now. But I think he's a relative. This explains why her water bill doubled.
Re: the tenant: does she have a lease, and does it say anything about visitors? I used to rent a place where I couldn't have guests for longer than a week without paying extra, which really helped keep my useless druggy son out of my hair. And with the "sex offender" tag, I should think that telling her that he had to move or she should be prepared to do so as well, would make her rethink her committment to him. You might want to contact the feds who administer the section 8 program to see what your options are here.
Best wishes with a difficult problem.
Best wishes with a difficult problem.
Sorry you're having a bad day! Just chalk it up to being Friday the 13th. The day is almost over. At least there are only two more Friday the 13th's this year in April and July.
Kim B.
HW 295/ SW 281/ CW 209.6/ GW 155
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt
HW 295/ SW 281/ CW 209.6/ GW 155
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt
I didn't even realize it was the 13th! Maybe that explains it.
Kelly
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