Colowyo - grudgingly settling in :P

[colowyo0809]

So, we are settling in. The hunky house fixer came by yesterday and fixed the shower heads. One was just loose, the other he actually had to do work on The clips for the secondary shower insert won't be in until Thursday, and then he will replace those with ones that actually work. He is supposed to look under the house today (I hope) to figure out why the pipes are gurgling and occasionally spewing into the master bathtub (and all this is several hours after we run anything!).

Our brand new washer and dryer units should be here sometime between now and 9am this morning We went to best buy Saturday and bought them cause they were on sale and they had good ratings when I looked them up online before hand
Later today we have to go down to insurance and sign the papers. It's gonna be cheaper here than it was in Colorado so The one bad thing about it is that we have Farmers Insurance and we do our renters through them. In CO and WY and I believe MT (and we lived in either houses, apartments or mobile homes with foundations on private property) it was directly through Farmers, but here it's through Farmers somebody or other (because we live in a mobile home in a mobile park). And, this means that if something happens instead of getting full replacement value in today's dollars for anything needing to be replaced we will only get what the item is currently worth at depreciated value So, lets hope nothing happens in the next year or so until we move out

SO was so excited yesterday. He got to help his manager do interviews and select the last of the employees! Granted, at this point anyone who isn't a Store Manager through a Department Manager is being hired as a temp with the option of staying on full time, but still. They are looking at the employees they selected yesterday as people they'd like to have stick around so that's awesome. Wednesday SO will help K (his manager) do the new hire paperwork (with the new hires) and Friday they will be doing the new hire paperwork for the employees from Wichita! Their first day in the store is this Saturday, that's when they start setting everything up and all. It's actually kind of cool, the company decided they were not lowering the starting wage for the Kansas stores, so they are keeping starting wages the same across the entire company. And for regular employees that's $10 an hour! Which, apparently around here is a big deal

Tomorrow we have the tv/net/phone people coming to hook us up, so that will be nice. I bought my headset telephone system and computer headset off Walmart.com (yes, I'm aware of the hypocrisy, but it was $20 cheaper for the same phone if I bought through them, and I didn't have to pay shipping because it is being shipped to the store). So, once those come in I can apply for my at home job and start saving money for the new move.

We went to the Farmers Market Saturday (apparently the one here runs through the middle of November so that's cool) and we bought a couple squashes and some sweet potatoes (both orange and purple! ) and I bought a whole chicken from a nice older lady that I thought might be Mennonite or Huderite (sp?) but turns out she was old german baptist. Had the chicken for dinner last night along with mashed sweet taters (mashed with honey and Irish butter) and it was good!! Was almost $20 for the chicken, but it was good food, and I picked that carcass clean! I should have saved the bones, but a) I'm not really at a place to start doing that yet and b) our freezer is kinda small and it doesn't have a rack in it.

Ok, that's enough for now

 

[TanksHill]

Good to hear your settling in. I was going to ask how much the chicken coat. I had to explain to family how much free range organic really sell for.

Can you ave a couple hens for eggs at this place???

G

 

[colowyo0809]

Good to hear your settling in. I was going to ask how much the chicken coat. I had to explain to family how much free range organic really sell for.

Can you ave a couple hens for eggs at this place???

G

I haven't asked yet. We aren't planning on staying so until we know where we are moving to, there doesn't seem to be much point in having any . I know the city of Lawrence does allow backyard hens, so that's cool, although the list of requirements is kinda intimidating if your new to chickens . I asked about having a garden here and I think I may have fused several circuits in the poor mans head trying to understand the concept of a garden in a trailer park He finally said he didn't see why not, just that no one had ever asked about it before.

 

[abifae]

Hoorah for settling in!!

 

[colowyo0809]

I'm really hating this whole "step forward onto the moving sidewalk which moves you backwards again".

We bought a brand new washer and dryer. They were delivered and installed this morning. The installer guy ran the washer and the dryer to clean them out and they worked just fine. So, this afternoon we ran a load of jeans in the washer, no problem (although it transitions from one cycle to the next rather loudly). We popped them into the dryer and started another load of clothes in the washer. The dryer stopped and I thought it was because it was done. However, the jeans were still damp. And, the dial was still in the area of cool down. So, I dialed back to 40 minutes and tried to start it and it wouldn't start. Finally figured out it was because the breaker had been thrown. So, I turn the breaker back on, start the dryer and walk away. 20 minutes later it just stops. I walk in there and it is hot as heck to the touch, the breaker has been blown again and the breaker itself is hot to the touch! Get to actually looking at the breaker box, and instead of having the dryer on one of those breakers that has the two prongs and says 240v, it is set up so it's on two of those breaker things, sharing a 120/240v with a set of lights and a 240v with a set of lights. The one that keeps flipping is the one on the 120/240v! What the heck?!!? So, I called and left a message on the property managers number letting him know about this issue and that we still haven't had anyone duck under the house and look at the pipes. No one has called back, and SO just left to take the wet laundry to the laundromat to dry. I'll be calling first thing in the morning to get this taken care of, because this is beyond ridiculous. If you are going to claim that you offer in house hookups for every house, and use this as the stated reason for not having on site facilities for this, then you need to make sure they are actually wired in appropriately! Not to mention, I shouldn't flush the toilet and then be able to turn and watch a small fountain of water spray up out of the drain in the bathtub!!

*sigh* me now please, with a 2x4?

 

[hillfarm]

Id keep record of everything, that way you can look for a better place and be able to get out of the rental agreement if you have to.

Sorry its having issues.

 

[colowyo0809]

Id keep record of everything, that way you can look for a better place and be able to get out of the rental agreement if you have to.

Sorry its having issues.

we already took pictures of everything wrong the day we moved in and I will start keeping both a hardcopy (written) and a soft copy (digital) list of stuff that continues to crop up, just in case. The biggest concern with finding a different place is that it is a $1000 lease break fee if we leave early

 

[abifae]

Ouch. Although if you are leaving for those issues they might be able to shift you to another home they also lease instead of fining you.

 

[Marianne]

Oh, what a cheapo built place! A vent line would have taken care of the splash in the tub, and I can't believe that wiring passed inspection. I'd keep hounding them about the wiring, and make plans to move again when the lease is up.

 

[valmom]

That stinks about the breakers- but at least they cut out before they caught fire! Our house had one breaker in the kitchen. For all the outlets, lights and and refrigerator. You couldn't run the coffee maker and the microwave (or anything else) at once or you would trip the breaker. We finally got sick of forgetting and trying to run both at once and had an electrician separate the outlets. I think they charged $100 or so, but they were in doing other work for a generator at the same time.

Good luck with all the issues- I can't believe they have never been asked if anyone could put in a garden!