My baby sistah came through like a champion! Firstly she sent me gorgeous tulips to my office (since my #1 birthday request is always flowers sent to work.). Then today I got another present from her. It had a cool Mickey Mouse rain jacket and umbrella... and even cooler... Mickey Mouse silverware! :) She needs to know she's now on the hook for Mickey Mouse plates sometime in the future. ;) My mamacita actually came through quite well as well (which is a bit of a surprise). She bought me a red pot (which I asked for) and red kitchen tools (which I didn't but that's okay). She also sent me a gift card to Target which makes me happy. :) I used it to order a dvd/cd rack and a dutch oven for camping. I'm excited about the two of them arriving. She also sent some $$ which is always nice! :)
Michelle & I were discussing my whole inspection problem. I'm being inspected tomorrow and I'm kind of annoyed about it. I can respect Michelle's opinion... the owners of the building want to be sure I'm doing right by their building. I'm not growing pot in the kitchen or anything. So while I can respect that, to me this is my home and I don't want a random stranger traipsing through my apartment. I think it would be easier for me if I there was a system to it. If I knew every January they were going to want to inspect I could cope with it easier than the random papers attached to my door telling me they're coming in x amount of days. Also I've been "randomly" selected more times than some of my neighbors. That bugs me too. Although I think this round, they're inspecting everyone. So I'm taking the morning off work so that I can be here when they come through and I'm shutting my bedroom door because I'm hoping they'll at least respect that request. The nice part is, that when I'm done I am done and I can spend this weekend and the rest of this week studying my ass off for my CEBS test next week.
(totally unrelated, I'm looking at what this guy is making on food network and it totally looked to me like a vagina. The decoration and all that. It was vaguely disturbing.)
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The city comes through here and inspects everyone once a year. They give us about 10 days notice, and like you, I hate having to clean for it. I'm vaguely annoyed by the process - I do feel it's a slight invasion of privacy, but I also don't think I can change it.
I feel the same way. I dread hearing my mail slot squeak open in the evening because it invariably means a note from the Ppty Mgmnt company.
This week I got one threatening (yet again!) eviction & legal action if they find anyone is using dishwashers or washing machines. They claim it's overloading our antiquated and constantly-in-need-of-repair pipes.
Apparently, they're going to inspect all apartments in the "near future". I don't understand what they hope to gain since they have to give at least 24hrs notice before entering anyone's unit and that gives folks time to hide/move their contraband appliances.
Their stupid letters always make me angry because they're worded to insinuate we're all criminals of some sort. They don't understand that most of us have lived here for so long we consider these apartments our HOME and we take very good care of them.
My apartment is never filthy but I'm lax on the dusting & there is often clutter around. I used to worry so much about the cleanliness of my apartment for these surprise visits but I don't care anymore. Screw 'em. But I still don't like people in my home when I'm not around so I usually take time off work, too. I don't need my cats stressed out or anything to suddenly go missing.
I only had one inspection in my last apartment. In college, the landlady's daughter picked up the rent checks on the fridge, so she'd come in at anytime while we were gone.
But no worries, most of us were pretty clean around the house, and they were eternally grateful when I rented a mower for the lawn after years of disuse.
ps ~ what looked like a vagina? Was it a squash bake?
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