Tenant Has Done A Lot Of Damages.

By on April 30th, 2010

I have a Tenant that has benn there for 3 years and has done a lot of damages and alterations to the duplex unit. There was an attempted break in and the front door frame has to be replaced and all 14 blinds have to be replaced. The back door can “maybe be repaired. She has pulled all the carpeting in the 3 bedrooms upstairs and replaced it with vinyl tile. She has replaced the kitchen floor with vinyl tile. She has painted some of the rooms blue and there is the smell of dog pee in the rooms from the two little dogs. all the door knobs to the bedrooms have been changed to have locks on them. I have a management company for this and it is not actually on a month to month for these tenants and I am out of town & don’t live there but my agent I have it up for sale with told me about it. I am sure there are more damages that has not been seen. She said the expense is going to be very high to get this in order and this place was just remodeled 4 years ago. It just makes me sick to think about it. What would you do in this case.

How to handle my husband.

By on April 29th, 2010

I’ll try to be brief, but give the whole story. We been together since i was 17 i’m 33, he is a good man, but you got to get over some junk to get to that part.He is a devoted hard worker and is a pretty good dad. Problem is he is so critical of me, and makes it hard to be around him.He does love me, like he has no other woman before, this i feel certain, and I never loved anyone but him either.

I’m easygoing and stay home with the kids, and take care of the house, kids, animals, and yard work.i do it ALL. Which is fine since he works alot. i dont ever nag, i let him come and go as he pleases, go visit his buddies, whatever. i trust him. My easy going ways drive him nuts. this is a typical morning in our house, this is what happened this morning.

I wake up to him packing his lunch and throwing things around in the pantry, I spent the night on the couch with our sick son. He starts yelling, “What the hell, don’t you buy the snacks anymore, i’l take care of it myself” He says it in an accussing tone, like i did something horrible

Next he starts making his sandwhich and he is like “is the turkey suppose to feel kinda slimy.” I said no, use the new turkey I bought. (After 4 days the lunch meat gets weird, and then i give it to the dogs) Well he goes off “Rotten f*cking food in the frig, thats disgusting, why dont you throw it the hell out”

Then he goes on to saying what a disgusting mess the house is, and he cant stand being home cause its so disorganized. I’m looking around the kitchen, everything is clean except for some papers on the table and a pack of soda, and clean dishes on the drainboard. “I’m like what mess.”

I asked him, “must you always be so unpleasant to me.” I dont like to fight and argue, so for the most part i let it go, but i always let him know i dont approve of how he talks to me. His answer to that was just ” you drive me f*cking nutts and the way you do shit”

ok so this is a ll trivial, but this is daily and this was only the 10 minutes interaction i had with him this moring.its always like this. I’d say more, but nobody feels like reading it.
morning doesnt have anything to do with it, this is all day

Does anybody else seem to be EXTREMELY LOUD when you’re trying to be sneaky.

By on April 28th, 2010

Ok, so it’s like 10:30 and I have school tomorrow (I stay up alot late anyways) But, I was really hungry for ramen. I go into the kitchen and when I open the pantry everything falls out. (Plastic cups, cans, etc.) And I finslly get the ramen. Well, then i go to the cup board and all these plates fall out. (Only one broke) And then, the microwave is soo loud, then I have to dig out a fork, under tons of other crap in the drawer, then I take the ramen out and burnt the crap out of my hand. (I hissed in pain) Yea,. And my mom is passed out and didn’t wake up. LOL

Does that kinda stuff happen to you.

hypothetical question: What would you add to this list and your name please.

By on April 27th, 2010

1.$38.5 quadrillion US dollars shopping list:
a.$4 quadrillion US dollars, to help out with the US economy and to help out with the US debt.
b.Pay off my debt and 999 others as listed below. The housing package, includes:
i.Insurance for house, life, medical (for immediate family including parents)
ii.Groceries for 2 years in monthly increments
iii.$200,000.00 dollars
iv.All game Systems
v.72” LED TV
vi.100 games per system
vii.Bluray player
viii.A super laptop for each person in the house with 100 PC games
ix.New car of the peoples choice
x.A 3 story house with 10 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms with elevator.
xi.Gaming/Electronic and other magazines they may like
xii.Washer and Dryer (from Harts flooring)
xiii.Side by side refrigerator and Stand up Freezer Chest (from Harts flooring)
xiv.Stainless steal Kitchen Set (from Harts flooring)
xv.A beautiful Flower garden
xvi.Vegetables garden
xvii.Employees: Gardener, housekeeper, etc.
xviii.Small guest house 3 bedrooms.
xix.$50K worth of stuff for the females (sewing, painting, craft stuff, makeup, etc.)
xx.$50K worth of Tools for the men
xxi.Lawyer on retainer and paid for services
xxii.Wedding money
xxiii.Plus all their favorite:
1.books
2.movies(on bluray and DVD)
3.TV Series
4.comics books
xxiv.The People
1.
2.
3., etc.
Don’t forget to put down, either your first name and/or nick name.

Also what else can I add to this list.

Does ceramic tile go down before or after new cabinets in the kitchen.

By on April 26th, 2010

I’m completely remodeling the kitchen with new cabinets and new flooring. Are the base cabinets supposed to sit on the cement board backing or directly on the new tile. Do I need to install all the tile over the entire floor before any base cabinets, or put in the cabinets first.

What would you rather do.

By on April 25th, 2010

If you were given the option to remodel your house, or go on a nice vacation, say to Hawaii, (sans kids), which would you do. Our home is an older home, built in the 60’s, it’s livable, we have a nice new kitchen already, done before we moved in. We were thinking on making the bedrooms/bathrooms bigger. I don’t mind the size, but of course it would be nice to have more room. At the same time, I really, really, want a REAL vacation. Our past vacations have been driving down to the in-laws with the kids (a 17 hour drive), and staying at their house for a week, sometimes longer. I love my in-laws, but I’m sorry, that is NOT a vacation to me. A vacation to me is w/o kids, staying in a hotel, lounging on the beach with an umbrella in my drink. I’m not complaining, I love my family, I just need a break. I’m a full time mom and could really use it. So, back to my original question.Which would you rather do. Remodel. Or spend some well needed time away with your husband.

Thanks.

Skeptic no more. Now I must beg your advice. HELP.

By on April 24th, 2010

So there I was, having a good chuckle mocking Believers on the internet.being a skeptic, I assumed that they were all just a bunch of misguided people with poor critical thinking skills and unstable personalities that readily accepted any idea that supports their pre-existing worldviews,

LITTLE DID I KNOW.all the phenomena that I casually and pompously dismissed were just biding their time.

first, all the electrical appliances in my condo switched themselves on all at the same time, and seemed to be receiving more and more power until all the fuses were blown and then darkness. (my iPad runs on it’s battery) while searching for a flashlight, voices from all directions began shrieking at me. in all different languages, mostly German and Czech, just like the original occupants of the structure, built over110 years ago and died in a fire soon after. Furniture flew, fixtures swinging, doors slamming with no draft. Visions of the walls on fire appeared and disappeared. Finally, I grabbed my iPad and made for the door, and asI left, all the cutlery in the kitchen embedded itself all around my path,

I could still hear the shrieks until I ran some blocks away, where I saw almost all my neighbors gathered, scared to death- the same thing had happened in THEIR condos, too.

So we pooled our money and are now staying in a few shared hotel rooms downtown. I’m so sorry for doubting you all these years. Now I beg your help, we’re all too scared of callling the authorities, who’ll surely dismiss us all as insane,

What do we do.
You wouldn’t believe all the emails I’m getting that say something similar happened to them, .or tried to refer a medium who’d “cleanse” the building for us, for a fee.

Is it better to buy a house before or after getting engaged.

By on April 23rd, 2010

My bf and I want to buy a house, and get married. He is a handy man so he wants to buy a house and rip the kitchen and bathrooms apart and then remodel.

I’m thinking that between working on a house and planing a wedding, there won’t be enough time. What should we do. I’m I ruining the whole engagement surprise. lol

Review a short story I wrote.

By on April 22nd, 2010

wake up in a bed, and everything is dark, except for a small orange glow. I look around, and all of my furniture is there, except it seems slightly different. The colors are off, and they seem larger than before. The floor is black, at first I think it’s some sort of void, but it’s just the floor. I can hear screaming, a thousand screams that seem to
come from miles away, barely audible. I get out of bed, and at that moment a tremendous fear comes over me, one that is indescribable by any word in the English language, or I imagine any other language. However, I feel that I must keep going.

I look around my new room, to get a feel for what’s going on, I notice that the outside of the window, which is open, is the same color as my floor. I start walking towards my door, which seems to have some sort of human quality to it, it doesn’t tell me to not go out, but I can somehow feel it. Then, I can see water flow from the keyhole, and a harsh breathing, the door is crying. The screams are starting to get closer.

t the other side of the door, is a long hallway. It appears like one of those things where you put a picture of something next to parallel mirrors, causing it to reach infinity. I start to walk slowly down the hallway. The orange glow is much sharper now, and I can see smoke. I follow the smoke, for some reason I know this is my goal. I follow the smoke, which seems to be beckoning me towards it. The doors around me, literally every 10 feet was a copy, the picture in the mirror did repeat itself. The doors would sob, as I walked past them. Each one the same sob, the same intervals, the same tears.
At this point my body has gone into some weird auto-pilot mode, sort of like when you’re making out with a girl, and you start moving towards her tits, but it takes you a few moments before you notice what you’re doing. My body went first, and my mind caught up later. I walk for what seems like hours, and now the orange glow filled every crevice, and the smoke was right in front of me. I hit the wall.

The screams are now ear piercing, there are no bodies to connect to the voices, except for the smoke. I can only assume that the smoke itself is screaming. What I thought was a wall, is actually a gate. Beyond the gate I can see the smoke, it is circulating, wandering, in what looks my kitchen, the exit is in there.
The gate is unlocked. My autopilot kicks in again, it of course took me a few moments to see what I was doing. IT turns back. I tell myself to go the exit, but I can’t. the screams seem to follow me back through the hallways, and the doors are silent this time. I walk back into my room, and the screams are ear splitting. Then, all sound stops.

all the furniture is gone, except for my bed, which is no longer a bed, but just a solid metal block. I go and sit on the block, and everything goes black. The floor is now the lightest color in the room, it is also the darkest. I can’t see anything and my body wont let me move.

The only thing I can think about is the exit, the exit that I missed, but I can do nothing about, I am stuck there, for all my concerns, I am stuck forever.

I wake up.

This was the most hyper-realistic dream I’ve ever had, every bit of it seemed real. I could feel everything, hear everything, see, taste, what have you. In fact I don’t even remember it as I do most dreams, but as a real memory. If it wasn’t for it’s outlandish nature, and my skepticism, I would say it really happened.

The human mind is a funny place.

What BASIC rooms did all medieval castles include.

By on April 21st, 2010

I need to design a castle floor plan for a school project and then actually make a model of a castle to go along with it, so I’d like a very simple plan. I’ve looked up the rooms in a castle, and I don’t know which are staple and which are just extra. Like, in a regular house, a kitchen is necessary but a game room isn’t really. That type of thing. Please help.