Shady
For the last year or so, I've lived in a rental house. It was a seemingly nice house. Decorated, decently sized, very nice yard. It was great for my fiancee and soon to be step-daughter. A few months into living there, we found a leak in the roof. It wasn't too bad, or so we thought.
As summer came to a close, fall and winter rolled in. We had big rainstorms through 2007 and as each one hit, the leak got worse. We kept exeriencing this and it is still a problem to this day.
My landlord had "fixed" this many times. I use the term "fixed" very loosely. He kept sending his friend to "fix" it. In fact, while I lived there, I have had to be home 8 times while these issues were addressed. Apparently there were another 6 times before we even moved in.
It wasn't a huge leak, so we figured we could negotiate a lower price on the house since he offered to sell it to us.
When we talked about buying the house, the landlord said he wanted $390,000 for it. At that point, we decided we were going to check out other houses that didn't have issues, would cost way less, and not have a trashy-ass trailer park with mass mullets running amuck across the street. The owners are going to sell it anyway
We found a beautiful home with almost nothing needing to be done for $340,000. Awesome deal, love the new house, but that's not the focus of my story here.
Anyway, in our last week there, we are in the process of cleaning the place up. My fiancee just called me and said a drywaller was there and overheard a conversation between him and the owners of the house. The owners asked him to cover it up and make it look like there was no damage.
So the guy gets to work, tears the ceiling apart, and discovers the entire roof is on the verge of collapsing because it is so rotten.
He tried nailing two 2x4's on each side of the support beams to give them new support. The original support beams couldn't support the new 2x4's. They didn't crack, they didn't break. They smooshed. WTF?! Ya, I know, wood isn't supposed to smoosh, but this time it did.
This is so bad. I've talked to every roofer that has come out to do an estimate. Every single one of them have said I dodged a bullet. I didn't know how big this bullet was until this last incident.
And yet, the owner is still trying to cover this up and sell the house. Hm... who wants to start a pool on how long it takes for someone to sue my old landlord for everything he's got?
As summer came to a close, fall and winter rolled in. We had big rainstorms through 2007 and as each one hit, the leak got worse. We kept exeriencing this and it is still a problem to this day.
My landlord had "fixed" this many times. I use the term "fixed" very loosely. He kept sending his friend to "fix" it. In fact, while I lived there, I have had to be home 8 times while these issues were addressed. Apparently there were another 6 times before we even moved in.
It wasn't a huge leak, so we figured we could negotiate a lower price on the house since he offered to sell it to us.
When we talked about buying the house, the landlord said he wanted $390,000 for it. At that point, we decided we were going to check out other houses that didn't have issues, would cost way less, and not have a trashy-ass trailer park with mass mullets running amuck across the street. The owners are going to sell it anyway
We found a beautiful home with almost nothing needing to be done for $340,000. Awesome deal, love the new house, but that's not the focus of my story here.
Anyway, in our last week there, we are in the process of cleaning the place up. My fiancee just called me and said a drywaller was there and overheard a conversation between him and the owners of the house. The owners asked him to cover it up and make it look like there was no damage.
So the guy gets to work, tears the ceiling apart, and discovers the entire roof is on the verge of collapsing because it is so rotten.
He tried nailing two 2x4's on each side of the support beams to give them new support. The original support beams couldn't support the new 2x4's. They didn't crack, they didn't break. They smooshed. WTF?! Ya, I know, wood isn't supposed to smoosh, but this time it did.
This is so bad. I've talked to every roofer that has come out to do an estimate. Every single one of them have said I dodged a bullet. I didn't know how big this bullet was until this last incident.
And yet, the owner is still trying to cover this up and sell the house. Hm... who wants to start a pool on how long it takes for someone to sue my old landlord for everything he's got?
Labels: idiots, jackassery, sand in your vagina
On the plus side you got to “work from home” 8 times for it.
Posted by
MGD |
7/23/2007 03:33:00 PM