I hate renting
Let me say that again. I hate renting. I really, really, hate renting. For most of my adult life I did not rent. Now we are renting because we have no choice due to “the battle“.
Recently, we moved to a place with more space. Then we had a battle with the previous landlady over the bond (deposit).
Then started the battle with the NEW landlady. We moved over a month ago. We STILL do not have a dishwasher, despite my finally lodging a repair notice to the landlady. The 14 days is up today or at the latest, tomorrow. The broken towel rail has been replaced with a shorter one, leaving a hole in the wall tile from the old one. The hand towel holder has been replaced with – believe it or not – a damn toilet roll holder! This has left another hole in another wall tile and looks horrible.
The back door lock has been replaced but is worse than the old one as now the key doesn’t work from the outside. It took the handyman most of the day and a trip to the hardware store to replace the lock he brought with him as he never got that one to work at all. Yes, the one he finally installed worked when the handyman was here, but in the middle of the night Mr O was locked out. It hasn’t worked since. I sent an email to the agent on Monday and have received no response.
I am over paying for facilities that aren’t working! I am over having to chase people for entitlements. Good grief, we are paying rent for a property that is not as it was advertised. I’ve already had to get the oven door hinges replaced as the oven couldn’t be used at all and it was agreed that would be fixed BEFORE we moved in. It took two weeks or more to get that done! Damn sure HER oven and dishwasher work!
I should add the dishwasher has stagnating water sitting in it – this is a health risk, surely? It has been there since the start of last month! I suggested the handyman remove the dishwasher last weekend, but he declined.
The next step is to apply to VCAT to pay the rent into a trust account in the hope that might get the landlady to be a proper landlady. Then again, I don’t want her to hate us and refuse to renew the lease. Damned if I do and damned if I don’t. Bugger the whole damn thing!
That’s my whinge for the day.
Did I mention I hate renting?
Ouch! Still having problems with that one? Hugs to you, and I hope it gets solved soon, so you can have some peace and enjoy the new place.
Sounds like it will be solved this weekend with any luck. A working dishwasher will be wonderful!
Also, as I just said to Nanacy, it turns out the owner is not happy with the “repairs” the handyman did either, so perhaps she is not so bad after all!
If it was my house I would not have been happy.
There are positives to owning . . . and positives to renting. And negatives to both too. If you own, you can have unexpected repairs for which there is no money in the till . . . and no one else to turn to to get “it” fixed.
Life is a battle.
Sometimes I wonder why we bother.
As it turns out, the owner it not happy with the handymsn’s work either. Perhaps she is not do bad after all!
We will have the dishwasher this weekend. Yay!
Yes, definitely positives and negatives both ways, Nancy.
I hope that once all the niggles are sorted it will be a nice place to live for a while!
I hope so too. I just hope if anything major fails, like the heating or hot water, we don’t have the same battle to get it fixed! I can not cope with 6 weeks without hot water!
Well as a home owner I can only lend an ear to your plight and nod in sympathy but do understand that as a home owner the battle continues its just the nature of the fighting that changes as in paying rates to council who seem to want more every year for doing less!
I have to agree, having spent most of my life as a home owner. Or, like my daughter, a home owner has to find the cash to replace the hot water heater blows up 5 months after buying the house!
I also know not all owners are as bad!
I fear you will have mention it often Robyn…
but I hope I am wrong about that..
Feeling very tired and very sick of the constant battle, Helen. Life goes on…………..
Try to stay centred Robyn.. I know it is easy to say but hard to do.. you have suddenly become a “mother” to 4 children and that is very difficult in itself.. never mind everything else that is going on…
Please get help from where ever you can, ( including all the O’s) you must not carry all this yourself.. hugs from thousands of miles away Helen x
I am fine Helen, as far as the family is concerned. It is just the constant fighting “officialdom”, whether it be governments or landladies!
Thanks for the hugs, much appreciated.
you are most welcome