Showing posts with label Rockford Development LLC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rockford Development LLC. Show all posts
Nov 5, 2012
House Mouse
I had a cup of coffee after seven pm again and with daylight savings happening and my insomnia, I'm screwed. So I sit here making lists of things I can't get off my mind. I'm feeling like I don't want to let anything slip through the cracks when I hear a mouse in my stove. He's not being very stealthy clomping around on the sheet metal and with all his echoing mouse yodels. I got worried and thought maybe they squeak only when they're mating. Then I got mad at the thought of mice humping in the place I make banana bread for my children. But it turns out they are just squeaky when they're scared or excited and for a shiesty little house mouse that is pretty much all the time. I stood in the doorway and watched him poke his little nose up through the burners looking for spilled macaroni and cheese or boiled over rice, but I've been making a large effort to keep the kitchen crumble free and so he didn't find anything good and he saw me seeing him and ran back into the stove. I gave the side of it a good Timpani drum whack and now I have to add disinfecting one stove to the list of chores tomorrow.
Jun 19, 2012
No, I'm Not Exaggerating
So the house wasn't finished and they did work and we moved in and it still needs work. Lots I'm finding out, and how did I find out? When I smelled smoke. Yep, Saturday night after being in the new house one day and unloading my entire life and all my belongings into the house that was promised to be finished but wasn't. I sat down to turn the A/C on and something in the basement started sparking and smoking and crackling. I called 911. They arrived with full sirens in full gear and shut all the breakers off to the basement and fixed my smoke alarm. No, my smoke alarm didn't go off, the batteries were installed incorrectly. No the other smoke alarms on the other floors didn't go off because there weren't any. The AC was repaired yesterday, but today no cooling again. The freon is all leaked out already, I'm sure. The smoke detectors are in finally this afternoon.
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Take a nice cool relaxing bath you say? I'd love to, if I had any water pressure. It takes an hour to fill the tub half way. Yes, it's on the list, yes, he's promising to fix it, no the plumber has not called me yet. I can''t use the garbage disposal either as there isn't enough water pressure to wash even an earwig down the drain Yes, there's a list. There are 42 things on the list. This is number three on the list.
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Did I mention it's been in the 90s with 50% humidity for three days? It's at 50% humidity because it rained on the day I moved in for the first time in months.
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It took my nine hours on the phone with AT&T to get the internet up and working. I know because I was on my cell phone, which doesn't get reception in my house so I have to stand on the front porch to make a phone call. AT&T kept transferring me to another department who would start the call with what's your home phone to which I would explain that's what I was trying to buy from them and then they would ask for my account number and I would say I didn't have it and they would say I should've received it in my e-mail confirmation and then I would have to explain to them that I didn't have a phone line or internet yet but I was trying really hard to get it.
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While I was trying to unpack I wanted to send the kids to the back yard to play. I couldn't until I cleaned up the yard. I wish I was just talking about broken old branches. There was broken glass, rusty razor blades and screws all over the yard from the contractors working on the house. Me and a friend spent all day yesterday cleaning the yard. I'm still finding sharp and or rusty things back there.
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The newly varnished floors are peeling up. They varnished over oak floors that have been waxed and oiled for almost a hundred years. The stuff is bubbling up and it comes off when you pull a chair out, or walk on it or drive a matchbox car over it or breath near it. Three times a day I sweep a pile of varnish chips off the floor. It's exhausting keeping the children out of the broken glass and errant screws and varnish chips while simultaneously not being able to wash anything or fill a tub, in the heat.
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The property manager of this place is Nick Savaglio at Rockford Property Solutions aka Rockford Development LLC. He has a boss, and no, I haven't spoken to him yet. I'd like to.
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Take a nice cool relaxing bath you say? I'd love to, if I had any water pressure. It takes an hour to fill the tub half way. Yes, it's on the list, yes, he's promising to fix it, no the plumber has not called me yet. I can''t use the garbage disposal either as there isn't enough water pressure to wash even an earwig down the drain Yes, there's a list. There are 42 things on the list. This is number three on the list.
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Did I mention it's been in the 90s with 50% humidity for three days? It's at 50% humidity because it rained on the day I moved in for the first time in months.
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It took my nine hours on the phone with AT&T to get the internet up and working. I know because I was on my cell phone, which doesn't get reception in my house so I have to stand on the front porch to make a phone call. AT&T kept transferring me to another department who would start the call with what's your home phone to which I would explain that's what I was trying to buy from them and then they would ask for my account number and I would say I didn't have it and they would say I should've received it in my e-mail confirmation and then I would have to explain to them that I didn't have a phone line or internet yet but I was trying really hard to get it.
***
While I was trying to unpack I wanted to send the kids to the back yard to play. I couldn't until I cleaned up the yard. I wish I was just talking about broken old branches. There was broken glass, rusty razor blades and screws all over the yard from the contractors working on the house. Me and a friend spent all day yesterday cleaning the yard. I'm still finding sharp and or rusty things back there.
***
The newly varnished floors are peeling up. They varnished over oak floors that have been waxed and oiled for almost a hundred years. The stuff is bubbling up and it comes off when you pull a chair out, or walk on it or drive a matchbox car over it or breath near it. Three times a day I sweep a pile of varnish chips off the floor. It's exhausting keeping the children out of the broken glass and errant screws and varnish chips while simultaneously not being able to wash anything or fill a tub, in the heat.
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The property manager of this place is Nick Savaglio at Rockford Property Solutions aka Rockford Development LLC. He has a boss, and no, I haven't spoken to him yet. I'd like to.
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