Saturday, July 10, 2004
New Realtor Brought On-line
Yup, thats right, Realtor Ken Flack has now been hired to sell the house. Our Broker (Remember top 10% in Canada) just wanted us to continually lower our price on what seemed to be a weekly basis....Sorry fella....he went just a little too far...So I now have a new FSBO (For Sale by Owner) sign on our property (Actually the old one from Caldwell Banker our first realtor who never picked it up)and have attached flyers for the locals to pick up (Actually modified flyers from our second realtor Royal Lepage). Within the first 2 days we have had 10 flyers plucked from our plastic holder in front of the house and 1 follow-up phone call... We have also created our own Web site for the property www.3wintergreen.ca that features the voice of announcer (Who Else) Ken Flack providing a overview of the home...
Painter and Ceramics Guys in Cahoots...
As my painter lives across the street from us in Pte-Fortune and we have no hot water yet in the house the Ceramics guy asked the Painter if they could borrow a bucket of hot water to mix the epoxy grout for our shower. A few minutes later I see both of them emerging from the house with bucket in hand and the painter doing up his belt. (Hmm..) I commented to the ceramics guy, "Looks like the 2 of you have become very close", and he replyed "Well we had to pay him for the water somehow".
Aggies worry of the week...
Well, as mom has run ot of worries lately, I was kind enough to tell her about the concern of the carpenter.As he is installing the hardwood floors in the house,he denoted that Oak is a very stong wood, but you must be very careful not to let any sand get on the surface of the hardwood lest the surface be damaged. (Remember our "Old Landscaper who we fired" for deliverying us sand instead of what we needed) Yup thats right, our house is now surrounded by 220 tons of sand. To make maters worse our entire lawn has become a mud swamp with the excess water from the artesian well and other plentiful water supplies. The sequence of events to get to the front door is now you walk through ankle high mud, then into the Sand which sticks to the mud, and then enter the house and walk on the hardwood floors...Mom hasn't slept for the last 2 days.....Poor Aggie....
Shit a Brick(Layer)
We now have an estimate from the bricklayer to lay the bricks (2 weeks) and he has me losing sleep at night... After his 2nd day at work he was the last to leave and close the house.. He left the Garage door unlocked (With over $10,000 worth of hardwood and siding on the floor, he had dumped his Brick Cutting Water tank on the floor to empty into our new ($10,000) septic system, and he neglected to turn off the water at the tap, allowing the hose to leak all night long on the garage floor.
Note: His truck is missing the rear window and has masking tape and plastic as a makeshift window. Looks like it been there for the last year...
I have now relocated the hose to the rear outside of the house where leakage can cause no harm, instructed him to cut all bricks outside the house, and to empty all brick cutting machinery outside, before putting in the garage for overnight storage. Still can't sleep since the HVAC guy told me he is worried that the brick layer may drop some grout into the Heat Pump. (Remember Ken "Pick up heat pump cover at home hardware")
Bell Nomobility
I decided to call bell from my cellular while driving to the house from Ottawa to make an appointment for them re-connect their lines, and install express-vu (Free install). Well after the first 30 minutes I managed to get them to confirm a date for the Bell phone line activites before being cut off the Cell Phone. I called back to complete the activities only to find out that Bell couldn't transfer me to the same agent whom I had discussed all of these activities. Fortunately he did find my file and was able to pick up where the first agent had left off. He denoted that I would have to call express vu directly as I also wanted to have Direct PC installed (High Speed Satellite). When he tried to modify my file he recieved a file lock error as the original agent was still in my file.He then put me on hold as he sent an Email to the original agent to ask her to release the file. (Did you hear that, am Email ! ) To make matters worse it appears that Bell has a sepcial on if you activate your express-vu from the internet versus the phone.(They are now pushing away from using the phone for their business actities)
Go figure....
Yup, thats right, Realtor Ken Flack has now been hired to sell the house. Our Broker (Remember top 10% in Canada) just wanted us to continually lower our price on what seemed to be a weekly basis....Sorry fella....he went just a little too far...So I now have a new FSBO (For Sale by Owner) sign on our property (Actually the old one from Caldwell Banker our first realtor who never picked it up)and have attached flyers for the locals to pick up (Actually modified flyers from our second realtor Royal Lepage). Within the first 2 days we have had 10 flyers plucked from our plastic holder in front of the house and 1 follow-up phone call... We have also created our own Web site for the property www.3wintergreen.ca that features the voice of announcer (Who Else) Ken Flack providing a overview of the home...
Painter and Ceramics Guys in Cahoots...
As my painter lives across the street from us in Pte-Fortune and we have no hot water yet in the house the Ceramics guy asked the Painter if they could borrow a bucket of hot water to mix the epoxy grout for our shower. A few minutes later I see both of them emerging from the house with bucket in hand and the painter doing up his belt. (Hmm..) I commented to the ceramics guy, "Looks like the 2 of you have become very close", and he replyed "Well we had to pay him for the water somehow".
Aggies worry of the week...
Well, as mom has run ot of worries lately, I was kind enough to tell her about the concern of the carpenter.As he is installing the hardwood floors in the house,he denoted that Oak is a very stong wood, but you must be very careful not to let any sand get on the surface of the hardwood lest the surface be damaged. (Remember our "Old Landscaper who we fired" for deliverying us sand instead of what we needed) Yup thats right, our house is now surrounded by 220 tons of sand. To make maters worse our entire lawn has become a mud swamp with the excess water from the artesian well and other plentiful water supplies. The sequence of events to get to the front door is now you walk through ankle high mud, then into the Sand which sticks to the mud, and then enter the house and walk on the hardwood floors...Mom hasn't slept for the last 2 days.....Poor Aggie....
Shit a Brick(Layer)
We now have an estimate from the bricklayer to lay the bricks (2 weeks) and he has me losing sleep at night... After his 2nd day at work he was the last to leave and close the house.. He left the Garage door unlocked (With over $10,000 worth of hardwood and siding on the floor, he had dumped his Brick Cutting Water tank on the floor to empty into our new ($10,000) septic system, and he neglected to turn off the water at the tap, allowing the hose to leak all night long on the garage floor.
Note: His truck is missing the rear window and has masking tape and plastic as a makeshift window. Looks like it been there for the last year...
I have now relocated the hose to the rear outside of the house where leakage can cause no harm, instructed him to cut all bricks outside the house, and to empty all brick cutting machinery outside, before putting in the garage for overnight storage. Still can't sleep since the HVAC guy told me he is worried that the brick layer may drop some grout into the Heat Pump. (Remember Ken "Pick up heat pump cover at home hardware")
Bell Nomobility
I decided to call bell from my cellular while driving to the house from Ottawa to make an appointment for them re-connect their lines, and install express-vu (Free install). Well after the first 30 minutes I managed to get them to confirm a date for the Bell phone line activites before being cut off the Cell Phone. I called back to complete the activities only to find out that Bell couldn't transfer me to the same agent whom I had discussed all of these activities. Fortunately he did find my file and was able to pick up where the first agent had left off. He denoted that I would have to call express vu directly as I also wanted to have Direct PC installed (High Speed Satellite). When he tried to modify my file he recieved a file lock error as the original agent was still in my file.He then put me on hold as he sent an Email to the original agent to ask her to release the file. (Did you hear that, am Email ! ) To make matters worse it appears that Bell has a sepcial on if you activate your express-vu from the internet versus the phone.(They are now pushing away from using the phone for their business actities)
Go figure....
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