I love living in this apartment building!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

The pipe under our bathroom sink busted, minorly flooding my bathroom...And let me tell you how wonderful our maintenance guys are. We called the office, and ten minutes later he was here, checking it out. He was done within a half hour and when he was finished, he got a wet vac and got all the water up. He even hauled off our old futon frame for us. I guess I this will give me an excuse to go ahead and rearrange the under-sink area. I love living here. If nothing else, look at the view!

Duckie

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear YellowRubberDuckie!

What a great story!

So often, you hear just the opposite........

And........your view is wonderful!

Hope you have many years of happy living there!

[Pied Piper]

2. I know what you mean.

A few years ago, my apartment was flooded when the guy 2 floors up managed to set off the sprinkler system. Fortunately, I was home at the time, and I was able to pull up the rugs, pull the pictures off the wall, etc. I didn't lose a single piece of personal property (except for a few empty storage boxes...), but the apartment was trashed - blistering paint, popped-up cork floor tiles, etc. The management company moved me to a vacant apartment in the same building while they made repairs. Two weeks later they had replaced all damaged cork floor tiles, resanded and re-polyurethaned the floor, tore up the kitchen and bathroom floors to gid rid of old asbestos, replaced the linoleum kitchen and bathroom floors, gave me a new fridge, stove, and toilet, replastered the ceiling and walls, and repainted the entire apartment. It looked better than when I moved in the first time!

I don't have a balcony like you, but I do like my view:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

3. Oh my, that is an awesome view!!!

You're lucky too. We were talking the other day about whether we paid too much to live here, but then I realized, we couldn't get this kind of security, this attentive of a staff, and this centralized locality anywhere else. AND it's all bills paid.
Duckie

[Pied Piper]

10. Thanks

If I look to the left of that picture, I can see Fenway Park. Well I can't see the field, but I can see the lights and the jumbotron. A few years ago, Bruce Springsteen played Fenway, and I could watch the jumbotron with my binoculars, but I couldn't hear anything. A year or two later, the Stones played Fenway; they didn't use the jumbotron (I could sort of see the laser show), but I could sure as hell hear them!

You can see my office building in this photo - guess which one. I'm so lucky that I can walk to work!

[Whoa_Nelly]

4. Hey, Duckie!

What church is that in the background??

The color of the brick reminds me of St.Paul's Episcopal Cathedral...church I went to growing up. I think that is it in the background! :wow: But i could be wrong...

[YellowRubberDuckie]

7. It's St. Joseph's Cathedral in downtown Oklahoma City.

I went there once. It was beautiful. But you can't hear the priest and the people are very disrespectful. I'm very conservative when it comes to mass.
Duckie

[alarimer]

5. I am still waiting for them to come fix my a/c

I am in Texas and apparently it needs freon. They were supposed to come yesterday but never did. Meanwhile, it is 95 degrees out and only a little cooler inside. Well I guess beer will cool me off.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

9. Ours was lagging before the heat came.

If it were to stop right now, I'd be all over them. I cannot get sick right now.
Duckie

[idgiehkt]

6. very nice view and

sounds like you have decent maintenance.

That is wonderful. I was renting from this slum lord about 15 years ago when one of my pipes busted and the little room it was in got so wet the floor fell through into the crawlspace under the house. The landlord sent one guy out to fix it who used the wrong kind of pipes and it happened again. He also walked on my bedspread in muddy boots, the bastard. The landlord came out that night and started talking about how he could feel my pain because his billiards room had flooded once. Then he said he would call someone to clean up the mess. Then he stopped, handed me a ten dollar bill, and said, here, let's just pretend I called someone and you can do it yourself. I shit you not. That was when I was a lot younger so I just cleaned it up myself. I can't believe it looking back, but I was really naive. Plus I didn't want anymore of his drunk incompetent hired hands coming in there.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

8. Wow.

I think this place used to be that way before the current owners took over. If I need anything, it usually takes a max of two days for them to get up here to fix it. We have a nice space. And we're slowly acquiring adult furniture. Most of our stuff was acquired while I was in college and Skip was working for basically pennies, so none of it is nice. I kind of want to buy a condo or a house, but Skip is scared to buy a house. I am too, but I really want a yard and some big drooly dogs to play with.
Duckie

[Kajsa]

11. Hi Ducky,

I'm so glad you have a nice landlord and maintenance people
to help you. You know that's not the case, many times.:eyes:

Your view is fantastic, no wonder you love it there.

Hang on for a bit, the housing market is slowing down and
I have a feeling prices will be coming down in the near future.

Even so, they are so astronomical, here in CA, that I'm no where
close to being able to buy a house.

-sigh- but I have a nice landlord, too.

:hi: