Comments on: WBW#3: HOUSE: F.U.B.A.R. http://www.belly-timber.com/2007/05/23/wbw3-house-fubar/ Playing with our food since 2005 Fri, 16 May 2008 04:45:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Mrs D http://www.belly-timber.com/2007/05/23/wbw3-house-fubar/#comment-18133 Mrs D Mon, 02 Jul 2007 02:20:18 +0000 http://www.belly-timber.com/2007/05/23/wbw3-house-fubar/#comment-18133 Kimberly, I can imagine. And it would be even more frustrating for you with your architecture background, eh? Jenn, argh! That is absolutely awful. Heartbreaking, really. We lost a lot of things, but not any art. I can't even imagine how angry I'd be. Kimberly, I can imagine. And it would be even more frustrating for you with your architecture background, eh?

Jenn, argh! That is absolutely awful. Heartbreaking, really. We lost a lot of things, but not any art. I can’t even imagine how angry I’d be.

]]> By: jenn http://www.belly-timber.com/2007/05/23/wbw3-house-fubar/#comment-18119 jenn Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:27:31 +0000 http://www.belly-timber.com/2007/05/23/wbw3-house-fubar/#comment-18119 ARRGGHHHHH. As a renter [and one looking for a place in Seattle even as I type], I HATE people like that because they make it so very hard for those of us renters who are not idiots. But if it makes you feel better, I once knew someone who was forced to rent her house--with its original mural in the main bedroom from back in the '30s---you already know where this is going, don't you? Yep. Idiot renter painted the room. Lease said no painting but they did it anyway. And what good is a security deposit? Can't make the mural come back and not big enough to hire a hit on the former tenant.... ARRGGHHHHH. As a renter [and one looking for a place in Seattle even as I type], I HATE people like that because they make it so very hard for those of us renters who are not idiots.

But if it makes you feel better, I once knew someone who was forced to rent her house–with its original mural in the main bedroom from back in the ’30s—you already know where this is going, don’t you? Yep. Idiot renter painted the room. Lease said no painting but they did it anyway.
And what good is a security deposit? Can’t make the mural come back and not big enough to hire a hit on the former tenant….

]]> By: Kimberly http://www.belly-timber.com/2007/05/23/wbw3-house-fubar/#comment-18097 Kimberly Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:39:55 +0000 http://www.belly-timber.com/2007/05/23/wbw3-house-fubar/#comment-18097 Arrrgh!!! As caretaker of another old house, I've had some experience painting rough old plaster walls. Damn them and their crappy, careless painting. While we've never had tenants in our house, I've had some experience with contractors messing things up, and know well that blogging such things is part of the path to letting them go. Please do continue... Arrrgh!!! As caretaker of another old house, I’ve had some experience painting rough old plaster walls. Damn them and their crappy, careless painting.

While we’ve never had tenants in our house, I’ve had some experience with contractors messing things up, and know well that blogging such things is part of the path to letting them go. Please do continue…

]]> By: Mrs D http://www.belly-timber.com/2007/05/23/wbw3-house-fubar/#comment-18087 Mrs D Fri, 25 May 2007 15:05:26 +0000 http://www.belly-timber.com/2007/05/23/wbw3-house-fubar/#comment-18087 Hi Sally, Trust me there won't be a "next time." We did draw up an agreement and they violated it many times over. As for security deposit and the rest, like I said above, desperate circumstances. We really were caught in a situation where we had no time to make other choices and no one around who was willing to lift a finger to help us. Anyway, I'm not posting about the legal end of things here, and I'd like to keep it that way, at least for the moment. Hi Sally, Trust me there won’t be a “next time.” We did draw up an agreement and they violated it many times over. As for security deposit and the rest, like I said above, desperate circumstances. We really were caught in a situation where we had no time to make other choices and no one around who was willing to lift a finger to help us.

Anyway, I’m not posting about the legal end of things here, and I’d like to keep it that way, at least for the moment.

]]> By: Sally http://www.belly-timber.com/2007/05/23/wbw3-house-fubar/#comment-18086 Sally Fri, 25 May 2007 10:33:47 +0000 http://www.belly-timber.com/2007/05/23/wbw3-house-fubar/#comment-18086 Ok - I really don't know you, nor your situation. But I DO know that this is why leases were invented. I would strongly urge you to get yourself a Residental Rental Agreement made up for the next time (if there is a "next time") to protect yourself. And a security deposit. Also, any "business" conducted between friends and/or relatives is likely to end like what you have experienced. So sorry to hear of your problems. But, as they say, experience is the best teacher! P.S. DH is an attorney and I'm a paralegal. In case you were wondering... P.P.S. I like the idea of WBW! Ok - I really don’t know you, nor your situation. But I DO know that this is why leases were invented. I would strongly urge you to get yourself a Residental Rental Agreement made up for the next time (if there is a “next time”) to protect yourself. And a security deposit. Also, any “business” conducted between friends and/or relatives is likely to end like what you have experienced. So sorry to hear of your problems. But, as they say, experience is the best teacher!

P.S. DH is an attorney and I’m a paralegal. In case you were wondering…

P.P.S. I like the idea of WBW!

]]> By: Mrs D http://www.belly-timber.com/2007/05/23/wbw3-house-fubar/#comment-18083 Mrs D Thu, 24 May 2007 15:57:15 +0000 http://www.belly-timber.com/2007/05/23/wbw3-house-fubar/#comment-18083 @CC: Neener, neener, neener. (Seriously, I'll have chapter two up ever so soon. Promise! Gotta go see a client about a website first though. Ah, the work, she never ends...) @Riley & Tiki's Mom: Ah, well, that. There's a long story behind that. Short version is there was no security deposit. Longer version is we were caught between a rock and a hard place and we made some bad choices under desperate circumstances. (Really long version will have to wait till a day when I feel like telling the whole cautionary tale... at the risk of infuriating and embarrassing many a friend, ex-friend, and relative.) @CC: Neener, neener, neener. (Seriously, I’ll have chapter two up ever so soon. Promise! Gotta go see a client about a website first though. Ah, the work, she never ends…)

@Riley & Tiki’s Mom: Ah, well, that. There’s a long story behind that. Short version is there was no security deposit. Longer version is we were caught between a rock and a hard place and we made some bad choices under desperate circumstances. (Really long version will have to wait till a day when I feel like telling the whole cautionary tale… at the risk of infuriating and embarrassing many a friend, ex-friend, and relative.)

]]> By: Riley & Tiki's Mom http://www.belly-timber.com/2007/05/23/wbw3-house-fubar/#comment-18082 Riley & Tiki's Mom Thu, 24 May 2007 12:29:02 +0000 http://www.belly-timber.com/2007/05/23/wbw3-house-fubar/#comment-18082 I hope they didn't get their security deposit back. I hope they didn’t get their security deposit back.

]]> By: Cookiecrumb http://www.belly-timber.com/2007/05/23/wbw3-house-fubar/#comment-18080 Cookiecrumb Wed, 23 May 2007 23:14:19 +0000 http://www.belly-timber.com/2007/05/23/wbw3-house-fubar/#comment-18080 I want to read more! I want chapters two and three now! It's still Wednesday, dammit. I want to read more! I want chapters two and three now! It’s still Wednesday, dammit.

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