I’ve been running around like a lunatic trying to wrap up loose ends before we head out on our trip. This morning I headed down to the McCarty House to sit and wait for DTE during the 8am – 12pm window they gave us. Someone has to be there to let them in to confirm the house is properly grounded.
On my way in I got a call from the guy that has been scheduled to re-glaze our tub at Greydale for our section 8 re-inspection for the last two weeks. He cancelled literally 1.5 hours before he was supposed to show up. Lovely.
His son, who I normally hire for re-glazing, was too busy and referred me to him. The son assured me something like this would not happen and made me feel pretty silly for even insinuating it may. I wanted to call him in a rage, but realized that would accomplish absolutely nothing. Instead, I’ll just stop calling him for future work.
Kaitlin managed to handle it and contacted another re-glazing guy we’ve worked with once before. He’s coming out tomorrow at 10am. He better friggin’ show!
While waiting for DTE I planned to run around to a few more properties, snapping photos to build my case to appeal our property tax assessments that I’ll be fighting more thoroughly in March. I figured why not throw in a showing for Somerset, too? All the houses are in about a 5 – 10 min drive, and DTE was supposed to give me 30 minutes heads up.
I had the showing scheduled at 9am and DTE, of course, calls me at 8:40am and says they are 20 minutes out. So I pushed the showing to 9:15am, blaming weather and traffic, and waited for DTE to show. All went well, and he got to work putting the meter back in, but they’d have to be out again to fix the main wire. Apparently the previous occupant was stealing power after DTE shut them off. So they came out at some point and clipped the wire that runs from the house to the main. He says they’ll be out in a day or two, but we’ll see.
I got to the Somerset showing at 9:16am. The prospective tenant seemed great, and I hope she follows through on her application. Hopefully we’ll have a tenant in place for when we return.
I’m tired, stressed, and ready for a break. I can’t wait to leave simply because I won’t be able to do much from a couple thousand miles away.