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 Where was I.....Oh yeah, the old place. They weren't happy because I didn't return my keys. My fault. I completely forgot to leave them behind when I shut the door, but there are only three separate locks and yet they claim they gave me five keys. I know there weren't any copies because I had to cut my own when I moved in. Five!
Next is the awning pole. The place had those old pull down external awnings on some of the windows. I wanted to use them, but the awning pole needed to reach up and pull them down wasn't there. There was a wooden broom pole with a threaded end and I just thought that was it until I went to use it. I pointed that out two years ago, but now they reckon I've taken it and want me to replace it. What on earth would I want with an awning pole????
Fly screens. This one is a beauty. Every single fly screen was hanging off as if someone had removed them and then couldn't get them to fit back in. Every single one! They useed to flap noisily in the wind and they let the bugs in. I asked if they could be fixed but the owners refused. Eventually one fell off the highest window. I asked if they would get someone (it was too high for me to reach even with my ladder - I tried!) to re fit it, but of course they refused. I stored it in the garage for safe keeping and they they seem to want me to somehow fix it. Not only that, but they want me to replace a "missing" fly screen on a window that never even had one. Why would I want to steal their dirty old fly screen? Now let me think, what can you do with an awning pole and a fly screen?
Next it's curtain hooks. The curtains looked fine to me, but apparently they have counted the tiny little hooks the connect to the little things with wheels to allow the curtains to open and "some" of them are missing. I've been asked to "fix them". How do I fix something that isn't there and even if I could, how can I do that when I'm not legally allowed back onto the property?
I've been asked why I left a heap of paint tins on the property. The funny thing is all of the colours match the walls in the house. Gee, I wonder if the old guy that used to live there could have left them....Nooooo of course not, I'm sure they are a part of my awning pole/fly screen/paint fetish.
I'm going to quote from an email for the next one; "The 7 man ferns that have died, the owner will not be replacing them but has asked for compensation to the value of replacement of man ferns the same size and the cost of removal of the dead ones". This is a good one. They planted all these man ferns down the very bottom of the garden. They are out in the hot sun and too far from the hose to water. There is no watering system. They illegally dumped the oil from the old oil heater (they cut the pipe but the tank wasn't empty - hehe) in a garden bed above the man ferns. Over the past three years everything in an arc below this illegally dumped oil has died. that includes the grass, the trees and of course the man ferns. Now they expect me to not only pay for replacements that they won't even be planting, they want me to pay someone else to dig them up!!!!!
There's one more. Because I had only 24 hours notice about the garden makeover I had to dump all of the weeds and stuff in the green waste bin that they kindly (see they did do some good stuff) provided a few months ago (yes a few months ago, not three years ago when I first moved in!). I was paid up until Sunday and I finally finished the garden on Sunday afternoon. Now they arn't happy because I left the bin full!!!!!!!!!!!!
How do you please these people?
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