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19906. RickNelson - 7/31/2006 1:14:38 PM There's poverty involved Mac. I'm just about all she'll get, I'm trying to get the name or some way of getting ahold of the owner she's renting from. But, I'll only use that as a last resort. I know the previous owner very well and I know everything is to code. I know this for a fact. The problem is in that man who stayed with her. She called him an uncle? I don't know or care really, but he did some f'ed up stuff. It appears to be malicious or very stupid stuff? I don't know?
But, that was all he did, accordin to her, The circuit board would blow a breaker if anything else was wrong and nothings wrong now. I fixed the last thing and she promised to leave the hot tub alone. 19907. alistairConnor - 7/31/2006 1:23:37 PM "there's poverty involved"...
well yes, poverty and A/C I can understand, but poverty and a hot tub?
I'm not denying the poverty, it's just that for the energy-conscious, the idea is completely surrealist. I very much doubt that poor people will be able to afford A/C for much longer, with rising energy prices. 19908. RickNelson - 7/31/2006 1:33:58 PM renters alistair, they've landed a good deal.
The house isn't very well laid out, the kitchen is small, though they put a second floor on the original in the early 90's. The old owner that is. This new one is a problem. Renting it after buying it from my other neighbor realtor. That realestate sale was to be to the owner occupier from the story I was told, but it turned out they just wanted to illegally flip the property. They got around the law by trying contract for deed. But, now they're just renting it.
Now I've info that the owners are now an only owner. And She has never been seen. I'm around a lot, so if she comes around, I've yet to notice. This is a good thing for the renter and bad for the owner. Bad for me too. The renter has damaged some things.
They can be fixed. But it's still not the best way to keep up that house. 19909. RickNelson - 7/31/2006 1:38:05 PM The renter doesn't work, and from our talks, I would guess she mover her family from Chicago or some other big city. Logic is Chicago because it's closest persay.
I know what being poor is all about, been there, done that.
She's doing it, and doing good, but I don't exactly know how.
She's not been gone on any day. So, what money is coming in has to be govt? Or maybe some settlment? I don't know, but the hot tub was the previous owners, he had a lot of joint pain. 19910. RickNelson - 7/31/2006 1:39:35 PM 20k millenial, that'ld be a good one, eh? 19911. Macnas - 7/31/2006 1:45:56 PM Rick, it sounds like you are being very good to them. However, things like this have a nasty way of dragging you in, and what now seems like being a good neighbor, could end up with you in court.
I know it sounds very mean-minded, but if there is malicious intent, or just cack-handed wiring, it's something that has to be resolved promptly.
If you're happy that's all there is to it, fine.
Just remember, you are the last guy who was at the wiring. 19912. RickNelson - 7/31/2006 2:21:35 PM You're right Mac, fortunately all I did was hook up the low voltage a/c. That has no way of causing fire or other porblems. So, yeah, I'm happy 'nuf, but my fees being waved because of neighborliness isn't the way I do things. I did it for those kids. 19913. arkymalarky - 7/31/2006 3:52:24 PM It is difficult living next to struggling people with small kids. You can't not help, somehow, but it really can put you in a bind. Bob's mother was in that situation and Bob was concerned for her safety, especially from the two boys, who stole and vandalized around the neighborhood until the sheriff threatened to take them from the home. The mother and husband (not father) finally split, went into bankruptcy, and Bob's nephew bought the tiny lot so there won't be problems in the future, but those two boys are likely doomed. I'm sure none of us will ever know unless they make the news.
Good luck to you and her, Rick. You have a great heart. 19914. judithathome - 8/1/2006 2:36:37 AM Our weekend was great...great hosts, company, food, and weather. Fabulous...and I am still feeling it. Meaning, it wore me out...ha!
What contributed to the tiredness was the strain when one of our tires started splitting and we were worried about the car all the way until we got to a larger town on the way...we got the tires roatated and carried on and then the same problem happened but at least we knew which tire...and finally Keoni took MsNo's suggestion and used the spare.
He's getting new tires Wednesday.
I wish now his daughter was getting married in December instead of in 5 days. Maybe I'll feel more lively in the next few... 19915. arkymalarky - 8/1/2006 4:07:21 AM I can relate! I took a nap this afternoon and I'm hoping to get back into the swing of things tomorrow.
I hope y'all have a great time next weekend as well, and that the weather is as moderate as it was here this weekend. If it had stayed what it was when we got home from CO (110F), the weekend would have been very different--not nearly as much porch time. 19916. arkymalarky - 8/1/2006 4:09:30 AM And, btw, I'm still enjoying the benefits of having Judith and Keoni and MsNo for company, and will for some time, I imagine. I told Judith that whenever they come visit I always feel like I'm the guest! 19917. Magoseph - 8/1/2006 1:01:30 PM Hello, everyone,
Being the guest in my house was a feeling I enjoyed when the boys were small and the grandparents visited for a week around each holiday. Grandpa took over the boys and Grandma the kitchen. It was heavenly to be waited on and to go out in the evening without the kids. I was never able to trust any babysitters and therefore could not enjoy any outing if we had to get one. 19918. Jenerator - 8/1/2006 2:02:10 PM I can't believe that it's going to be 99 degrees in Hartford, CT today. That's so uncharasterically warm.
I spent a summer in the East coast when I was a teenager, also during a heatwave, and it was hotter than I could imagine. No air-conditioning in my uncle's home, either. 19919. arkymalarky - 8/1/2006 3:46:30 PM I don't know how people survived in AR without air conditioning. Of course a lot of people didn't. The infant mortality rate, especially, was very high.
Too buggy to walk to it (and several unmarked wells that are just holes in the ground now), but we drove by a homeplace (no evidence of it exists, except a cemetery you have to walk through woods to see) with a two-story log house, where a couple lost all but one of their thirteen children. Only one lived to adulthood. Most of the older people around here have lost siblings or children and rarely mention them.
So I guess we think we're less hardy than our forbears, but maybe we're not--we'd just be the dead ones if we lived back then. 19920. Jenerator - 8/1/2006 3:52:19 PM I have thought about that often, Arky.
Imagine you and I being pioneer women doing all of the manual labor in a corset and long dress in this heat! Ugh. 19921. arkymalarky - 8/1/2006 4:01:13 PM Hahaha!
Of course people made other adjustments in the way they built houses, etc, but there's no escaping the humidity without ac. And out here they didn't get electricity until after WWII, so they didn't even have electric fans until then. 19922. Jenerator - 8/1/2006 4:14:44 PM I wouldn't have lasted. Well, maybe I would have. I have some deep Southern roots on my mom's mom's side. My cousins live out in the boonies of Tennessee and do not have air-conditioning. I spent several summers in Mississippi and would always have to stay in TN, too. We would sleep on the linoleum floors with fans or the windows open. 19923. arkymalarky - 8/1/2006 4:35:36 PM I'm all Southern on all sides, but I don't think I'd have made it. For one thing I was a small baby--not premature, but barely over 5lbs. We didn't have ac when we lived in Lubbock, but it was so dry a "cooler" worked just fine. And it got cold almost every night. 19924. Jenerator - 8/1/2006 4:46:43 PM I wouldn't have had kids if I lived 150 years ago. Medicine has come a loooooooooooooooong way! 19925. judithathome - 8/1/2006 7:22:22 PM Go over to News and Current Events to see why Bush is the way he is...
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