What's the best way to escape an insurmountable electric bill? Move! Or so I'm told.
But despite that very lofty bar standing in our way, a mental checklist is being prepared by all of us (including Eden), telling us that moving may well be the best thing to do. Perhaps after six years, it's time, considering what they call the "physical plant" condition of the house.
I made a list of things wrong with my old Ford Contour just before I got rid of it for a mere pittance. Seventeen different things were wrong with it, and not all of them minor. Three of them kept it from being legally road-worthy. Regarding the house, the city will have a field day if they inspected it, and the landlord -- nice a guy as he is -- would probably try to take refuge in that field.
There's a central air system that's been half-installed going on four years now. Water heaters usually last about 15 years... well, happy 15th anniversary, knocking tank! The fridge is whining. The gutters sag & flood the eaves, and the downspouts don't drain right. Steve says there's a heat loss (although I'm sure his mouth could replenish some of it). All told, the number of house defects are fast approaching the number of vehicle defects. The landlord has talked about selling the place if we left, but that's where the "field day" comes in. That place is a code violation trap. Not to say any of us are ungrateful about having four walls & a ceiling above our heads, but I worry about a cash cow status that might befall the landlord.
But moving is our call; we being the customers of the landlord, and isn't the customer always right, hurtful though it may be?
Stay tuned.
