And I love peace and happiness.
And rent checks. And walls without holes in them.
If you've read here long enough you know about the time that the young women living in The University Townhouse asked me to replace an entire house full of four year old window treatments and I ACTUALLY CONSIDERED IT.
Like I said. Peace and happiness.
I'm not particularly into making friendship bracelets or painting someone else's toenails so a small gesture like fixing your toilet in a timely manner or not raising your rent fifty bucks a year is my way of saying, "Hey, I appreciate you. Let's be friends, but not the sort of friends who talk on the phone at two o'clock in the morning." I'd also like to remind you that I invited each and every one of you to our wedding, save Bob because he smelled like a jock strap. And moved out without paying me over $600 dollars of rent, but probably more because of the jock strap thing.
So you see my point? I try.
You can't always tell, because I don't write about it as often as I used to, but I'm constantly dealing with our rental properties, so much that if I did write about it it would probably surprise you and suck up way too many of my posts. It's mostly little things. Little things that turn into big things that turn into semi biggish little things. Like the condo president who sent me a personal warning letter last week with FOUR EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!! BECAUSE OUR TENANT HAD USED A GUEST PARKING SPOT!!!! FOUR! EXCLAMATION! POINTS!
This is my life.
Anyway. One of those things just hit The Downtown Townhouse's refrigerator in force the other day and I thought that one of your brilliant minds might be able to save me a three thousand dollar trip from the repairman. You know the kind that I'm talking about. The kind where he shakes your hand then shakes the door then shakes his head and says, "No problum, here-uh, Miss-uh. Youz jus gotz a mustard bottle uh rattlin." And then he sticks his hand out for a tip. AFTER YOU PAY THE TRIP CHARGE.
So.
Help a girl out.
There the old fart is in the corner. Right next to us vogue-ing.
GE Profile. Four-ish years old. First owner. Keeps making a sound like it's restarting when the door opens and shuts. Sounds like it might be coming from behind the technician panel where the motherboard is.
Any ideas?
I can offer free mustard and a handshake.
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Can't help you with the fridge, (sorry) but that story about yet another condo commando antic made me laugh. My grandmother, who had dubbed their condo president, and anyone who had too little to do with their time, and felt the need to point out the smallest of things around the complex-"the condo commandos"
Oh, and you are a ridiculously nice landlord. Invites to the wedding??? (Yes, that deserved 3 question marks.) My Great Aunt who owns rental properties in Miami, has always been of the opinion that she would rather keep good tenants, than raise the rent each year and have terrible tenants.
The techie in me always do the following: Google the make and model of the fridge along with the issue. Then maybe see if you can get a bid from local repair companies in the area or contact the place, you got it from(if possible). See if other folks are having the same issue and see how they resolved the issue. if only you knew how many times doing this saved us money on car repairs, house repairs and such.
Yeah, I tried that. That's why I think it's the motherboard. Keeping my fingers crossed that some reader will miraculously email me and say, "No way. It's TOTALLY supposed to sound like that. It's just your refrigerator burping."
Or something.
Love the burping fridge comment. :-)
Well I don't have a GE fridge, but I did a little digging on the GE site and this is a list of noises that a GE fridge should make. Maybe the noise you are hearing is normal and is on the list I found on GE's site. Check your email.
Dear Suz,
Just got your email. AND I LOVE YOU.
no prob!
idk about the fridge, but you are a hell of a lot hotter and much less creepy then all the landlords I had in college... just saying
You should hear mine !
Lying in bed when it was first installed, I heard sounds that made me think .... water was running out of it ... water was pouring out of it ... glasses were clinking inside ... dripping dripping ..
But it isn't every night. Now I never really notice but The Man came out and said ... It's nothing and I listened to him.
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