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Re: Rockstars Week 23 - A Whole New World!!!
DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER!!! WARNING TO ALL, THIS POST IS NOTHING BUT A RANT, IF YOU SKIP OVER IT MY FEELINGS WON'T BE HURT, BUT I NEED TO VENT SO HERE IS WHERE I'M DOING IT!!!
So lemmetellyaboutmyday.....(yeah, I know that's not really one word, but it's how I feel...all crazy like)...lol.
Anyway, as I said...lemmetellyaboutmyday = "I'd like to vent to my Rockstar buddies about how my S*&TTY morning has gone." There is a really big backstory which I will spare you all and give you just a brief rundown. In a nusthell, Renee' & I live in a 2 bedroom apartment in the second floor of a house across from my parents. Our landlords are very old (in their late 70's early 80's) and for their age, they are very active. Anyway, in accordance with the way most older people act at their age, they are VERY VERY CHEAP. Also, the good side is, they aren't out to rip us off and our rent is cheap as well.
The problems with them being cheap is that he likes to think he is "Mr. Fixit" when in fact he's not close to being that. When little problems come up, I just deal with it myself so I don't have to bother him....one, cause I feel bad, he's old and I am young. I know when you are renting, fixing things isn't your responsibility, but I've known him since I was 4 and anyway...you see my point I'm sure.
We've lived here for just over 3 years and in that time there have been no really major issues to come up except for 2 of them. Coincidentally, both had to do with the bathroom. About 5 months into us living here, the toilet broke, I mean, just was WAY OLD and didn't work anymore. So, it took him nearly 3 weeks to have it replaced. The WHOLE TIME we had to go across the street to my parents house to use the toilet. EVEN TO PEE!!! We didn't complain, just let him do his thing and take his sweet ass time. Also, we didn't deduct anything from the rent that month, even though legally we could've deducted 3 weeks for not having a bathroom. Anyway, about a year ago I fell in the shower and cause we have what's called a "Pioneer's Shower" (cause it was the darn Pioneers who were the last to use something like what we have) I broke the pipe from the faucet to the shower head. I let my landlord know and he said he'd take care of it. Because I fell I offered to just get it done and he said no. Well, him doing it took nearly 5 weeks and for a while we literally had a garden hose as a shower (if I find the pics I'll post them). Anyway, again, we didn't complain, we used my parents house, we made due and STILL paid the rent on time.
So...(maybe this isn't too short...lol). Yesterday I find Salem in the kitchen like usual but this time he's really concentrating hard on the top of the window....wierd I think, so I check it out and find a bee there. I grab a papertowel and killed the bee. That was that....then today I see Salem in the same spot with the same look of concentration on his face. I see another bee and I kill it, 2 minutes later I see yet another bee and I kill it. Ok, now I'm thinking there may be a problem. I look all over for a nest and found nothing. I then found 2 more bees in my kitchen light (we have a hung ceiling with a floresent light)...then 2 more appeared there. So now I know I have a problem and an exterminator SHOULD be called. So I talked to my landlord who came up to the apartment with me, he checked things out, killed a few bees himself and then proceeds to tell me "Oh yeah, I found 2 nests under my grill the other day, I haven't done anything about that" WELL....I asked him what he planned to do and he said..."winter is just around the corner, they'll die" and he expects me to do the same damn thing. Meanwhile, I have to deal with the thoughts of leaving Salem home alone and he may get stung, sitting in my house I may get stung, Renee' may get stung...and so I'm pretty pissed. He was very very very against calling an exterminator and getting the problem taken care of. What I am thinking of doing is calling one myself, paying the bill and submitting a rent check less the bill on the first of October. I'd of course give him the reciept for the exterminator.
So, as it may not seem frustrating to some, it's annoying dealing with a cheapass old man when problems come up...needless to say, we're really wanting to MOVE!!! Anybody want 2 roomates who are easy to get along with and one cute kitten???
OK, thanks, again, if you skipped this it's ok, I needed to vent.
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09-06-2008, 12:08 PM
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Re: Rockstars Week 23 - A Whole New World!!!
So I waited for him to do it...and waited...and waited...and finally he told me that as soon as the weather got colder, they wouldn't be a problem. 
Sound familiar? Anyway, last year there wasn't a problem. This year, I went out and bought some caulking for the window and made sure I left it where he would see it...low and behold, he took care of it! 
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