Incompetence Abounds

First of all, the weekend was gorgeous and I did get quite a bit of outside time with the boys. It was really nice to back away from this whole move thing and focus on the really important things. However, one of the best parts of the weekend was meeting with our contractor to plan out what we are going to do in the new house. I am pretty jazzed about his idea for expanding my master bathroom. Originally we were going to have my cousin-in-law GC the project. Well, he was going to blow through the wall to expand the bathroom out away from the room. Oops, the wall that he was going to blow through is the wall to the stairway. That would have been one heck of step into the tub!! This contractor seemed to know what he was talking about.

We asked him to stop by our existing house to give an estimate on some of the things that our buyer wanted to be fixed. The first thing he saw was the electric wire - according to him only the INSULATION was frayed, not the wire itself. A conduit over the wire will fix the problem. Great. He looked at the chimney and started to laugh. Where the idiot inspector said there were bricks missing was actually and INSET in the design of the chimney. What a coincidence that the exact same brick was missing on all sides of the chimney. Finally he went into the attic and said it was dryer than the Sahara in there with no evidence of moisture or mold of any kind. And he said that ventilation was more than adequate. What a relief. So I sent our response this morning to our attorney who forwarded to the buyer.

Now here is the comical part. Our buyer responded at one part that the inspection report (yes, the same report that called my dog a "home security device") said that "suspect mold was present in the attic" and that he would have it tested. I responded that that was fine with me. I then responded separately to my attorney's assistant only that what I read said "suspect mold was present in the attic" - the same words, clearly a different meaning. The woman at the attorney's office actually forwarded that comment to the buyer, and all the realtors! Hello! That was not meant to be forwarded. It seems mightly hostile, don't ya think? Anyway, I will be happy when all that is settled.

Oh yeah, and the other incompetence - I ordered 2 oriental rugs, pretty expensive at that. Last week, I am pulling into the driveway and would you believe that UPS LEFT this very expensive rug in the middle of my driveway when no one was home??? They didn't give me a delivery date or anything. Just dumped it. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DRIVEWAY! What if it was stolen? What if it rained? What if it snowed? What if I ran over it with the car? What the heck were you thinking!! Incompetence.