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Originally posted by Brenda:

I try to avoid the management as much as possible because they don't really do much around here. And since I've moved in and I have been here around 6years now. The first manager I don't know who she worked for but she was here a while. I told her about the oven not working, so came up and had a look. Said she get operating instructions for me. I asked her twice and she never did. She left because she got sick. Second lady worked for the actual owners of the building and she was only here a couple of years, then there was a third that worked for a property management company and she was here a couple of years. Only came in once or twice a week. There was a repair company then the left. So basically now the building is on the "fourth" property management company and they are really in the office. Signs up saying call this company about things. They only come in when they are called.

Oh, I know about all the hassle and taxes. But at times I do feel like someone is looking over my shoulder making sure I do things right. Gets me down is all.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SIX, glad you listened to your body and not the machine!

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Also, are you drinking enough water and - just as important - eating enough SALT?

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Hubby gets very fatigued and his heart starts skipping beats if not enuf salt, and I get debilitating cramps.

Be careful with yourself!

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Oh yeah, and fuck Dexcom.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

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Originally posted by Brenda:

I try to avoid the management as much as possible because they don't really do much around here. And since I've moved in and I have been here around 6years now. The first manager I don't know who she worked for but she was here a while. I told her about the oven not working, so came up and had a look. Said she get operating instructions for me. I asked her twice and she never did. She left because she got sick. Second lady worked for the actual owners of the building and she was only here a couple of years, then there was a third that worked for a property management company and she was here a couple of years. Only came in once or twice a week. There was a repair company then the left. So basically now the building is on the "fourth" property management company and they are really in the office. Signs up saying call this company about things. They only come in when they are called.

Oh, I know about all the hassle and taxes. But at times I do feel like someone is looking over my shoulder making sure I do things right. Gets me down is all.

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. I know what you mean. Houses mean different things to different people, but for me it always meant a garden. I missed having a garden whenever I lived in an apartment, and even when we had a townhouse, altho at this point I'm like SIX: I could do with less garden AND less house.

I guess if you're going to dream of the ideal, may as well make it a smaller, newer, well built house and yard with a porch, in the city, close to doctors and pharmacies and bus line.

Now THAT sounds ideal!

We can dream, eh?

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Speaking of home expenses ... we just laid out a chunk of change for having the rat proofing, trapping, and cleanup/ sanitizing completed.

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Yuck. Big expense?

I've got moles ruining all my outside work every second of the day they're not sleeping. Doesn't matter how many times I've killed them, they always come back. Everybody else has them too, and nobody does anything about it.

I've just resigned myself to it now. I can fix all of that before I sell, and as long as I try to keep up with it a little bit until then, it shouldn't be that much work and money to do. I'm just done doing most of the work outside or any plans for future work beyond putting down rock on the other side of the garage and resurfacing the driveway. I'm just done with doing any outdoor projects that aren't absolutely necessary since they're just such a massive waste of time and energy.

Half the stuff I've done outside in the last 15 years looks like crap today. Even all the basement window exteriors that I caulked up and painted really nice look like crap and need to be redone, despite all my prep work and using rustoleum oil based paint. Total garbage now.

But I just proved to myself I can neglect a finished room for going on 10 years and spend 2 hours cleaning it up and it looks like I just finished working on the room yesterday.

Whoever buys this house is going to be buying a castle on the inside, with a criminal deterrent exterior. There are a few really beauitful exteriors on my block. If the Wet Bandits ever start casing out this joint, they're going to drive right on by...

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I saw a "before" picture of all the rat droppings around the air handler and it was NASTY. Eeeeew. But at least I know it wasn't a long standing issue bc I had the electronic filter serviced about a year ago and there was no problem then.

Thinking about how you got rid of the raccoon in your attic, SIX, and cut tree branches back to deny access. I wish I had your energy, I could have saved a bundle of $$$ doing the work myself.

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I'm hoping it makes you feel better when I let you know you're misremembering some of the events on my end. I did cut branches back the year before I had the two trees cut down, but only what I could manage with that 14 foot ladder and the extension pole. In between doing that and having the tree cutters seriously cut that thing back away from my house, I had that night where the family of 6 or 7 raccoons were trying to get on my roof from that tree and I spent 3 or 4 hours terrorizing them before they finally got down and ran away (and I've never seen a raccoon on my property again, although me and two of them standing on the back of a carport somebody has across the ditch had a really good look at each other one day, and I think they remembered me with the way they both stood up as we started at each other )

And most of my attic has drywall up. It will never be opened because I don't know what raccoon shit looks like and I have no intention on finding out. It stopped smelling during the humid summers 3 or 4 years back. As far as I'm concerned, it never happened.

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Oh BTW speaking of trash trees ... the huge tree we had removed lo these many years ago was also a silver maple, and it was rotten on the inside with a squirrel nest chewed into it. I thought it was partly bc the tree was stressed being in a warm climate. I guess silver maples just generally aren't good shade trees, no matter where you are in the USA.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
To me, it's a little like "What would I do if I won the lottery?" Kind of pleasant. But maybe it just makes you sad.

Sorry about that, BRENDA.

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