I worked for a property management company for nine years. Most of those years were a fiery pit of Hell On Earth. But despite the toxic environment and the fact that I worked in the accounting department (as opposed to the property management department) I picked up a few things about renting and the rules that apply. The last place we lived was the very first time I ever signed my name to a lease….
This makes absolutely no sense. But I’m not rewriting it again. On Saturday Bob and I went to my sister’s house for my Ellie’s birthday. My baby Ellie is EIGHT. My babies are no longer babies. And I feel very old. As we were heading home, there was A LOT of lightning all over the sky. No rain, no thunder, but endless lightning. We figured it was the horrible heat and humidity creating heat lightning….
I love Tim Mahoney. I loved him years before The Voice. If the music industry wasn’t inundated with shit, he could be famous. But Adam Levine picked helium and boobs over talent. — — And I’m told that we’re related. We’d be like…4th cousins. So there’s that. —
I need to stop writing “Closing” on my calendar. Every time I do—something comes along to fuck it all up. We had two bad rain storms and nothing leaked. Torrential downpour, scary high winds, can’t see out the windows, bad rain storms. Nothing. Leaked. So we had someone scheduled to come fix the wall—tear out the rest of the damaged drywall, put in new insulation, check for mold, fresh plastic, fresh drywall, tape seams, paint,…
I am stressed to high heaven about closing and the window mess. We have an official closing date of August 12th. WE HAVE AN OFFICIAL CLOSING DATE OF AUGUST TWELFTH. And the deadline to get the FHA appraisal is July 26th. That means the deadline to have the window/wall fixed is July 25th. That means people have ONE WEEK to get their shit together. There’s been a storm of emails today between our agent, the…
When we first looked at this house on our search, the only thing we didn’t like about it was the water damaged window and wall around it. When we came back to it to consider writing an offer on it, we figured as long as the window and wall were fixed at the seller’s expense, we’d be golden. There had been an ice dam (though no one can seem to remember what year) in the…
