Friday, July 29, 2005
Craptacular House
Our place is so craptacular that it is splendhorrific.
We experienced the half-power thing last night with Mike and Amy over. Anyway, these killer bills will weigh heavier when our rent jumps up $250 more a month next month.
Signed: Not-so-happy-camper in North Olmsted ¶ 11:18 AM
- The backyard floods up to 1.5 feet deep in the spring.
- We have a gigantic, tacky, ugly mural made out of WALLPAPER as the center of our home
- The downstairs is unfinished and stores stuff for my parents
- Neither of our toilets flush. You have to reach into the holding tank to flush them, then come back a minute later to get the water to stop running
- Our shower backs up every couple of weeks so you end up standing in dirty water until you decide to grab the plunger to fix it
- The 30+ trees on our property dump probably millions of leaves on us in such a short time period that I once raked (for 6 hours) and the next day had a foot of leaves covering everything again
- $700 gas bill mean anything to you?
- Half of our electricity will randomly shut off. No breakers have blown. The rest of the house/street has power, but some random rooms and power fixtures just stop working until it feels like turning itself back on.
- No air conditioning, so hot summer days are killer
- The ice maker makes ice that tastes like urine
- The nightly screeching racoons and millions of spiders around our house aren't all that friendly
We experienced the half-power thing last night with Mike and Amy over. Anyway, these killer bills will weigh heavier when our rent jumps up $250 more a month next month.
Signed: Not-so-happy-camper in North Olmsted ¶ 11:18 AM
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dang man. i sympathize with some of the things like the toilets and shower. ours are like that. sucks.
with your new job, start tightening the belts for 3-6 months, save the extra $50 here, $100 there, and get yourself into a house.
Either way, if you end up staying or in a new place, let me know if you want help with anything. we'll see if I'm of any value...
with your new job, start tightening the belts for 3-6 months, save the extra $50 here, $100 there, and get yourself into a house.
Either way, if you end up staying or in a new place, let me know if you want help with anything. we'll see if I'm of any value...
# posted by 
: July 29, 2005 12:02 PM
: July 29, 2005 12:02 PM
jason, i laughed out loud at the ice that tastes like urine!! i thought it was bad in berea that our water tastes kinda sewery, but britta now takes care of that. anyway, maybe you guys can paint a mural over the one you have...but the gas bill...we need to pray for a new house for you guys.
Thanks, Bek, we could really use the prayer for a house of our own with not soooooo many problems!
# posted by : July 29, 2005 5:04 PM
: July 29, 2005 5:04 PM
Your gas bill maybe was that much for the whole winter, right?? Our is like $300 a month or so, we did budget pay so it is always $115, if I can keep up with that!!
Our rent is getting raised too!!=( Just go rent somewhere else, we might. But really all those problems are easy to fix just with hold rent until the toilets flush!
Our rent is getting raised too!!=( Just go rent somewhere else, we might. But really all those problems are easy to fix just with hold rent until the toilets flush!
really... you're paying part or all of the mortgage on that house... if they up the rent, and it's more worthwhile for you to rent/buy somewhere else... your parents will end up with a net rent of $0 if you move out. keep the status quo and everybody's (sort of) happy.
# posted by : July 30, 2005 9:33 AM
: July 30, 2005 9:33 AM
Our gas budget payment is $96 a month! I suggest you really think about how much money you're throwing away on that bill...
We don't do the budget gas payment, so we get a different bill every month. The $700 bill was one of the higher ones, but something has to be wrong...we're getting $100 bills over the summer (and we are NOT doing the budget plan). Maybe we have a leak?
buy, buy, buy . . . it's like paying yourself to live somewhere. worst case senario - you don't make $ on the sale of your home, and you just lived FREE for however long.
(our gas co. gave us $3 this month b/c of an over estimate.)
(our gas co. gave us $3 this month b/c of an over estimate.)
# posted by : July 30, 2005 4:48 PM
: July 30, 2005 4:48 PM
Our gas co. gave us over $35 for the same reason, it paid for our current bill and we still have over $20 left over for next month...you probably want to look into that Jason
# posted by : July 30, 2005 4:52 PM
: July 30, 2005 4:52 PM
Ok, if the $700 is true. There was definatly a problem, Kelly told me how cold you made her keep it..or was it Kelly sneaking and turning it up really high????? We leave it at 70 ish and freeze our butts off and still pay alot so??? Anyway..point of my story my grandma's house in Lakewood is like 3 times the size and her's aren't even that much )old old windows and all!!
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