Moving is NOT Good for the Soul

You name it and it went wrong. I'm just glad I did a walk-through the day before we were supposed to move in. Our property management didn't want to give me the key for that much, but I insisted and they finally gave in. I walked through to find that NOTHING had been done since we saw it - dirty toilets, broken fridge, filthy floors, carpet in need of cleaning, light-bulbs out, and more was horribly wrong. I couldn't even deal with it, so I had Skye call and tell them the situation was unacceptable. They promised someone would be over to take care of it that night but they needed the key they had given me back.

..... WHAT? Of course, this was told to me when I was halfway back to Arlington after a half hour drive. Did I mention I had a sister, her baby, and my two babies with me during this whole thing? No? Well, they were there. Crying. The babies, not the sister.

I took the key back.

We arrived Saturday around 1:00 PM to find...our upstairs toilet leaking through the downstairs ceiling and collecting in a large puddle on the tile floor. The cleaning men were STILL cleaning, but using a neighbor's GARDEN HOSE because they turned off the water to the house upon discovering the huge leak. So, no water until cause of leak found. And we had twelve people show up to help us move who now had no access to drinking water or toilets, most of them living half an hour to an hour away.

We called the emergency 24 hour maintenance number - but it was disconnected. WHAT?!

We called the main number, it went to voicemail.

Luckily, I had the personal cell number of one of the representatives.

Unluckily, she did NOTHING to help except tell us she called someone else who could possibly come after 5:00 PM.

Insert filthy words here, especially when the other person never called or showed.

A great blessing was that one of my uncles, who is a complete and utter GENIUS when it comes to all things related to houses, found the problem and turned our water on. Management later (three days later) replaced our toilet that caused the problem and fixed a lot of other things.

Still dealing with a bad fridge, though. *grumble*

Top all that off with the normal stresses of packing and unpacking and finding space for things and I'm ready for a vacation.