The Nastygrams cometh
OK, so this post has been pretty quiet of late, but I do need to say that progress, although slow, is about to be made.
We have someone who is helping us work on the kitchen. He is a woodworker whose specialty is corner sinks and specialty counters. Well, OK, we could benefit from this. I have also decided that we are going to do the electric ourselves. I am running out of money, and this is actually a job I can do. I went to school for electrical engineering years ago and have been running low voltage cable for a while. I just need to see what the procedure is for this particular municipality.
We have also started the process of bugging the original owner for money. Yep the first nastygram went out last week via the various channels. (My agent talked to his agent, his agent passed the letter...) I have not heard anything back yet. They do want the actual quotes that I got. One of them will need to be amended.
Right now the game plan is this. If he rolls over right now, I would be willing to split it. If he makes me go to court, I start accumulating damages, and the creative accounting begins.
Now, before someone says, hey wait, that isn't fair, you need to understand a couple of things, first.
1) I can't afford a lawyer, so he will be taking a bite out of whatever it is I get from the owner.
2) The basement is not the only expense here. Because there is space in my house that I cannot use, I need to take account for ALL the damages that are occuring. For example, there is loss of use on a space slightly smaller than the first floor of the house. This is a substantial loss right there. Let's call that 3/8 of my current house payment. Less than half, more than a quarter. There is the additional rent on storage and old space that I am currently paying out because I cannot move in a timely fashion. There is the loss of use of a bathroom that I need to remove. There is the expense of ripping out the bathroom then restoring it when I am done.
3) Then there is the A/C which is currently out. It is covered by the home warranty, but, apparently it was installed incorrectly, so it can't be worked on until that is corrected.
What really irks is that none of these things are my fault. The problems are stemming from decisions that I did not make. As a result, I am paying a price.
We have someone who is helping us work on the kitchen. He is a woodworker whose specialty is corner sinks and specialty counters. Well, OK, we could benefit from this. I have also decided that we are going to do the electric ourselves. I am running out of money, and this is actually a job I can do. I went to school for electrical engineering years ago and have been running low voltage cable for a while. I just need to see what the procedure is for this particular municipality.
We have also started the process of bugging the original owner for money. Yep the first nastygram went out last week via the various channels. (My agent talked to his agent, his agent passed the letter...) I have not heard anything back yet. They do want the actual quotes that I got. One of them will need to be amended.
Right now the game plan is this. If he rolls over right now, I would be willing to split it. If he makes me go to court, I start accumulating damages, and the creative accounting begins.
Now, before someone says, hey wait, that isn't fair, you need to understand a couple of things, first.
1) I can't afford a lawyer, so he will be taking a bite out of whatever it is I get from the owner.
2) The basement is not the only expense here. Because there is space in my house that I cannot use, I need to take account for ALL the damages that are occuring. For example, there is loss of use on a space slightly smaller than the first floor of the house. This is a substantial loss right there. Let's call that 3/8 of my current house payment. Less than half, more than a quarter. There is the additional rent on storage and old space that I am currently paying out because I cannot move in a timely fashion. There is the loss of use of a bathroom that I need to remove. There is the expense of ripping out the bathroom then restoring it when I am done.
3) Then there is the A/C which is currently out. It is covered by the home warranty, but, apparently it was installed incorrectly, so it can't be worked on until that is corrected.
What really irks is that none of these things are my fault. The problems are stemming from decisions that I did not make. As a result, I am paying a price.