Lesson learned
Dec. 8th, 2005 11:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
semperfionaIf I ever rent out a property again, I am going to take photographs of
EVERYTHING. All the appliances, all the other myriad appurtenances of
the house, the condition of the yard...
My griffins have gone missing. We didn't notice, at the time of the
official inspection 11/29, whether they were in place or not. But Sunday
morning, we stopped by the house to check on it--make sure the pipes
weren't freezing and the like--and found them missing from their perches
on the front porch.
I called the ex-tenants yesterday and left a message enquiring whether
they had been moved by mistake. I got the voicemail reply, "We were not
aware of any ~griffins~ AT the house." I'd like to know how you can live
most of a year somewhere and not notice hundred-pound two-foot-tall
concrete griffins on the front porch! I'd also like to know how you
could possibly move them by mistake, but I suspect they were actually
stolen weeks ago and the tenants failed to notify me.
There's another $220 down the drain. I'd like to keep it back from the
security deposit--clearly the loss of appurtenances of the house is a
reason to do so--but I can't prove they were gone before the inspection,
and I don't have any physical proof that they were *there* on move-in. I
know they were, I'm sure they were there the last time *I* visited the
house for any reason, but I don't have proof.
EVERYTHING. All the appliances, all the other myriad appurtenances of
the house, the condition of the yard...
My griffins have gone missing. We didn't notice, at the time of the
official inspection 11/29, whether they were in place or not. But Sunday
morning, we stopped by the house to check on it--make sure the pipes
weren't freezing and the like--and found them missing from their perches
on the front porch.
I called the ex-tenants yesterday and left a message enquiring whether
they had been moved by mistake. I got the voicemail reply, "We were not
aware of any ~griffins~ AT the house." I'd like to know how you can live
most of a year somewhere and not notice hundred-pound two-foot-tall
concrete griffins on the front porch! I'd also like to know how you
could possibly move them by mistake, but I suspect they were actually
stolen weeks ago and the tenants failed to notify me.
There's another $220 down the drain. I'd like to keep it back from the
security deposit--clearly the loss of appurtenances of the house is a
reason to do so--but I can't prove they were gone before the inspection,
and I don't have any physical proof that they were *there* on move-in. I
know they were, I'm sure they were there the last time *I* visited the
house for any reason, but I don't have proof.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2005-12-09 12:13 am (UTC)I guess I'm going to have to go out and buy a digital camera. I wonder if I can deduct it as a business expense?
no subject
Date: 2005-12-09 05:58 pm (UTC)I'm sorry to hear about it, Fi...
Date: 2005-12-10 04:53 am (UTC)When my mom was still alive, she had rented out her house to a Scoutmaster from her church, because she thought he was trustworthy--it cost her quite a bit more money.
The problem with "The School of Hard Knocks" is that you generally get the test before the lesson. But you do tend to remember the lessons learned that way much better than book-theory from college. Sorry to hear about your loss, but I'll bet that it's a much more practical (and firmly implanted) lesson than many that you'd paid quite a bit more tuition for. Fortunately, the griffins sound like they can be replaced with mere money.
(( *Hugs*, sweetie; I'm here for you. ))
NoC