I am so sorry to hear this! So much loss there. I'm sure we don't fully get just how awful the losses are yet (and they look completely devastating!). I hope they are somewhere safe while he is working to help everyone.
I filed a complaint with the pension company after they still has not provided me with a quotation/illustration after I initiated my request via one of their webforms in early July 2023, and 3 phone calls later (today's being the most recent).
It was supposed to take 10 working days, and today is the 29th, and when I rang them, they could not provide me with a feedback of the status of my request. They said they would ask the person responsible to give me a call back early next week as he is not available currently.
When I rang in mid/late July 2023 to enquire, I was informed they needed to obtain some information from somewhere in order to process my request, and they had then received this information.
When I asked if they could expedite my request as it had been more than 10 working days, the staff curtly said "others have waiting longer than you", which did not gel well with me for sounding uncaring.
So I included that in my complaint too.
DK
Welp, of course, we pull off some siding and just like that, it's a sill replacement. And then we looked at the oil tank, that came out today...so that's tens of thousands we weren't banking on. Looks like I'm keeping older siding and painting my own house at some point. Again.
Whoever buys this place next are going to be lucky. New septic, new electrical, new sills, new oil tank/furnace...no expense was spared. When we do it, we do it better than necessary, just to be sure.
We've put in just about what we paid for the house at this point. You wouldn't know it to look at it, though. We keep trying to make her pretty. Sorry old girl, no fancy tarting for you.
Not fancy, but solid? Yes.
Now you know why I offer emotional support and always have no monies.
I'm too fat for this s*#t.
Welp, of course, we pull off some siding and just like that, it's a sill replacement. And then we looked at the oil tank, that came out today...so that's tens of thousands we weren't banking on. Looks like I'm keeping older siding and painting my own house at some point. Again.
Whoever buys this place next are going to be lucky. New septic, new electrical, new sills, new oil tank/furnace...no expense was spared. When we do it, we do it better than necessary, just to be sure.
We've put in just about what we paid for the house at this point. You wouldn't know it to look at it, though. We keep trying to make her pretty. Sorry old girl, no fancy tarting for you.
Not fancy, but solid? Yes.
Now you know why I offer emotional support and always have no monies.
I'm too fat for this s*#t.
Oi, I haven't lived in FL since I was a kid, but I remember the humid heat. Impossible to explain until you're suspended in it. That's a torturous 4 days and the 16k would make me cry too, if I could lift my head off the ground enough for anyone to see.
Oi, I haven't lived in FL since I was a kid, but I remember the humid heat. Impossible to explain until you're suspended in it. That's a torturous 4 days and the 16k would make me cry too, if I could lift my head off the ground enough for anyone to see.
Ah, it more chalks up to a major PIA. Just more of the same. The house is 200 yrs old, and it comes with the territory. The sill, septic, oil are running @40k, and that's with DH doing work alongside to mitigate cost.
If we were just coming in blind with no skills it would've been 30+k for the sill alone.
I just got all starry eyed that maybe the budget would work out so I wouldn't have to haul my carcass to repaint for the first time, ever. Silly rabbit.
You have to have an entirely different portfolio of skills at the ready if you want an old house.
I married well to a man who really can do just about anything- enough that the professionals trust him.
Sometimes, he shows them a better way
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