Yesterday was a frisby... I didn't get to bed until half way late in the morning, around 2 I think, and was already awake by 7:35. I wasn't awake but a minute and I fell right back to sleep... but of course that didn't last very long. I woke up to what sounded like a Gorilla humping my door, using a MAC truck as a strapon to do so... Most people knock, or knock firmly, NOT my land lady.....
I opened the door in rather a foul mood to start with, and what to my wondering ears should I hear but the annoying sound of "The Twilight Bitch" asking "Do ya got my rent money?"... urghhhh. I of course said NO! She replied with a half screached... "WHAT!?", and I saw that it was time to educate her. I made sure to use little words, but of course, that didn't help, she still needed a dictionary to understand any other words that didn't stard with R and end with ENT or M ending with ONEY...
The apartment is, and always has been in rather bad shape. When Lisa and I moved in, we were informed that the kitchen flooded slightly when it rained heavily, hmmm ok that is fixable NOOO problem! What wasn't mentioned was the following...
The electrical outlets are old, miswired and damaged.
The stove heating elements are damaged and malfunctioning.
The refridgerator, except when turned on 1 (the lowest settings) acts more as a freezer, making liquids into icey's and some foods glazed with frost from the cold.
Around the back door are large cracks that, in the daytime you can see light perfectly, at nightime you can take even the cheapest flashlight with the oldest and cheapest batteries and see light as if it were noon on a clear spring day...
The bathroom heater, is a baseboard heater and doesn't have the front protective grate and is badly malfunctioning... All the heat travels up the wall behind the heater causing the wall to turn a dark brown almost black as if it's trying to burn the wall.
The kitchen window had large gaping holes around it that had to be sealed with silicone...
The baseboard in the kicten had to be sealed... TWICE due to such heavy flooding the first layer actually washed away after it was dried...
The storage room just out from the kitchen has press board for walls and is pressed outward due to excessive cold and water damage.
The bedroom floor is sinking around the middle due to unlevel ground the baseboard leak and the window had to be sealed...
In the living room, the main window near the front door NEEDS to be sealed, as well as the one on the far wall...
Around the air conditioner needs to be grape foamed to seal the large gaping holes...
Around the front door also needs to be sealed due to excessive air holes...
Near the front door is an outlet that USED to hang out in the floor, wires and the conductor box EXPOSED... The land lady "FIXED" this by straping part of the wires, rehooking them to the conductor box, and placing a metal plate visable just behind the main outlet face plate...
The apartment used to flood, including the bathroom, hallway between the kitchen and bathroom, bedroom and especially the living room, due to the city workers not maintaining the ditch lines and run off lines...
The carpet due to excessive water intake into the apartment is damaged and molded in several places, near the baseboard and where furniture had been sitting...
The guttery weren't half hung, and still aren't fully connected although they are actually hung slightly better than before...
The roof leaks in three places in the living room, in front of the TV, middle of the room and right in front of my desk, really pisses me off when I am trying to work and there is a great big rain hitting us...
Since the DAY we moved in, we've had bug problems, we spend $20-30 a MONTH on Raid spray trying to get rid of them, although we have thinned them out to a point, they are still very numerous and annoying, we are now getting Brown Raclous (ignore spelling) spiders...
The front window was cracked by kids throwing rocks, she refuses to replace the window although it's not busted out, it needs to be fixed before they create that issue fromt he damage already done!
NOW, even through all of these issues the land lady has performed the following solutions (besides the outlet issue)...
For the flooding issue she had a ditch dug from the back of the apartment around my side of the building to the sidewalk... the sidewalk end of this ditch collapsed on the sides ceating a large dirt pile... In the back of the ditch, a large water hole, perfect for Misquitoes and other bugs... In the middle, uneven ground, wrose than before the ditch was even dug!
I was told that I would have to fix the roof myself, now my land lady claims we will have to wait until it's hot so the tar will stick well... 80 degrees isn't hot enough? WTF
A second solution to the flooring... a new front sidwalk... Ok so she raised the concrete 3" from it's previous state... wow it still pools on the sidewalk and tries to flood into the living room... BIG HELP!
The underpenning near the gutters was changed from rotted wood to new plastique underpenning...
The cracks in the brick where the building has shifted was covered over with the same plastique underpenning...
As for the bug problems... Dollar Store ant and roach motels... that have been used for a few years in this building, they act as a feast, and although we told her DO NOT BRING THEM... she brought them.....
As for the spiders... she refuses to spray
We now have issues from time to time with our Toilot backing up, the tub clogging quite regularly, the bathroom sink has leaked since we moved in... it was "fixed" once, but the leak never stopped... our hot water time in the shower is around 1-2 minutes at the most, two is like... don't use hot water for three days...
After explaining all of these issues to the land lady and requesting they be attended to, she has this to say... "I am going out of town until Tuesday"... Translating to, "Give me money, I am going on a trip, I will not fix anything but you need to pay me or I won't have enough money to go on my four trips this month, pay for my three BMW's and my big house..."
I called the Fire Marshal twice, Health Department Twice, the Fire Marshal has already ridden her hard over not having smoke or fire alarms in the apartments and renting them... She was also written up by the State Fire Marshal for not attending to hazerdous issues and they are none too happy to recieve my second phone call. The Health Department has yet to assist me in this issues, but I have gotten enough information to contact the State Board of Health, they won't be too pleased to hear from me by the end of our conversation.
Now I realize that I am playing with fire, but hey it's what I do for a living so I guess this is just another day at the office... LoL. Well, on to the next event of my life.
G.R.I.T.S., the public transportation service for disabled citizens screwed up yet ANOTHER of Lisa's Dr. appointsments by NOT putting it into the system, this is #7... I have already called the main branch manager TWICE and this is still continuing... Well I called Mom, who drove almost an hour just to pick us up to go to the Dr, tabaco store, Wal-Mart and Subway before returning home to unload all our newly acquired junk...
Across the street there was a fight that was called out over ths canner, so of course Lisa and I had to investigate... We thought of making popcorn and grabbing a soda, walking right up and sitting on the officer's hood who responded, making the comment, "We were bored and couldn't hear you bitching so we decided to get closer...", but of course we didn't. One person was sent home, one almost arrested and the other we're not sure. We do know that charges were brough up on violation of a Kentucky E.P.O. (Emergency Protection Order)... whoops, too bad for them! Other than that, we have basically been listening to music and talking to friends. Of course I was working on my game guide, trying to get part of it started. Whew it's tiring!
Newho, I guess that is my life for yesterday... What today holds... I DON'T WANT TO KNOW! Howver I do know... THAT I LOVE YOU LISA!
