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Scummy renter neighbors about to be kicked out

March 3, 2010 by Tricia

I know I’ve said it before, but it really does look like we might be getting rid of our awful renter neighbors soon. I certainly hope that we will!

We got a call last week from the home owners daughter in law. She said that they’d been trying to kick out our horrid renter neighbors since December! That was news to me because we’d called them to complain about a few of the things the renter neighbors were doing in December and they didn’t say a word.

Anyway … they haven’t paid rent since December and we know they were late on rent in November …pretty bad record since they only moved in in the middle of September huh? But of course our friends that had lived in an apartment building with these scummy people had told us that they wouldn’t be there long as they have a record of not paying rent or bills and just generally being awful people.

They were supposed to be out my March 1st. If they weren’t out, according to the owners daughter in law, the Sheriff was going to come on March 2nd – yesterday, and lock them out.

Well that didn’t happen. So I don’t know if they came up with the almost $5000 they apparently owe or if the Sheriff’s office is backed up and there’s been a delay in their eviction. I think I’ll be called the owners daughter in law later this evening to see what’s happening because we want these people gone just as much or possibly more than they do!

I have a feeling once they get their house back and the scum of the earth renters are gone they are going to find a lot of damage to the house. We’ve heard them pounding things on and off for the last three months. They’ve either been building something in the basement or they are destroying stuff. I certainly wouldn’t want to hear the insurance quote the owners are going to get once they see the house and need to fix it up again.

Oh and these people are really stupid. The home owners I mean – not the renters … they’re seriously considering renting again!

Hmmm .. lets see their first renter destroyed the carpets, broke a chandelier and a window or two and painted over oil painted walls with latex so that everything was peeling. Now these people owe about $5000 in rent and have built up legal expenses for the home owners, plus they’ve probably damaged the house … and yet they still think they might rent out to a third person?

They’re stupid! They’d be better off letting the house sit empty rather than renting again. They obviously can’t pick good renters and they still didn’t go back and call the employers that the bad renter neighbors listed on their application (they only called the supplied phone numbers which were obviously set up as the guy had just got out of jail so he couldn’t have been working for the company he’d said he was.).

I’m just keeping my fingers crossed and hoping that the conniving renters didn’t come up with a way to delay their eviction and that the sheriff will be coming to kick them out sometime soon! I’m also hoping that if it does come down the sheriff showing up to lock them out that it goes down smoothly. these people are really bad news … I just have a feeling that it could come down to a stand off with the police or something. Yeah – that’s how bad they are!





Filed Under: Canada, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, The Neighborhood, Toronto Tagged With: appeal, awful neighbors, bad neighbors, conniving, court, evicted, eviction, home owners, kicked out, move out, police, renters, scary, scummy neighbors, sheriff, sneaky, stand off, stupid, stupid landlord

Telephone scammers

March 3, 2010 by Tricia

I think I’m going to start unplugging our phone during the day. Seriously … sometimes our phone rings 10 or 15 times a day and rarely is it a call from someone I know.

Nope … 99% of the calls we get during the day and in the early evening are from what I’ve started to call telephone scammers. It’s come to the point where if I don’t recognize a number a I don’t answer the phone. I also check the number on the internet and I find most of the numbers that I check listed on complaint boards stating that such and such a number is from a company that says it can lower your credit card interest rates, or extend your cars warranty or even some type of insurance marketing.

We listed our number of the Canadian do not call list, but the thing is most of these calls aren’t coming from within Canada – they’re coming from the US or even the Philippines. So the do not call list doesn’t apply to them. Grrrr.

Don’t you just hate telephone scammers?

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Toronto Tagged With: callers, car, credit card interest, do not call list, Insurance, ringing, scammers, telephone, telephone calls, unplug phone, warranty

Go Canada!

February 24, 2010 by Tricia

I can’t believe it, I’m sick with a damn cold again!

It started on Monday evening with a sore throat that progressed to a runny nose and a throat so sore I could barely swallow yesterday. I thought for a while that I might have strep throat, but my throat feels somewhat better today than it did yesterday.

You know when you have a sore throat and you realize that you’re actually not swallowing your own saliva? That’s how I was yesterday. I was avoiding swallowing.

I don’t feel all that well today – lots of fevers and like I said my nose is running a lot, but I’m a bit better than yesterday. Man I wish I could afford to check into one of the top Toronto hotels for some luxurious spa treatments right now. I’m sure some pampering would do me good. LOL

Instead of getting pampered I we’re going to be watching the big Olympic hockey game between Canada and Russia tonight. It’s just started. Man I hope Canada wins! If they do, they’ll go on to play USA for the gold on Sunday! Speaking of Hockey the Canadian women will be playing the USA for gold tomorrow evening. Again – Go Canada!

Ha! First Canadian goal in minute 3 of the game! YEAH!!!!! Go guys!

I know I have a lot of American readers but I have to root for my own country.

Are any of you watching these big hockey games or any of the other Olympic sports?

Filed Under: Canada, Health Fitness and Beauty, Items to Try, Television, Toronto Tagged With: Canada, cold, Hockey game, Mens hockey, my country, rooting, Russia, sore throat, strep throat, USA, Womens Hockey

Migraines and Auras

February 19, 2010 by Tricia

Over the past year I’ve had more headaches than I’ve had in a long time. I used to suffer from terrible migraines.

They seemed to start when I was about 12 years old and they were really bad until I was about 25 – then they just stopped. Well for a few they slowly started up again, but they were never as bad as during my teen and early 20’s.

Now it seems they’re coming back with a vengence. I get a migraine at least once a week and sometimes as many as three times a week. Each one lasts for half a day to a full 24 hour day. It’s awful … especially when they’re really bad.

I have a migraine now and If I know my body, I’d say it’s going to be a real pounder in about an hour or so. I’d so rather be reading about the best best fat burner for men or feed for cattle than be about to suffer from a massive migraine again.

I also get auras. When my headaches are really bad my vision is a little different. My peripheral vision seems to decrease and I get wavy lines at the sides … kind of like the Northern Lights. LOL Yes, strange.

However, Last July, October and in early January I got a different kind of aura – when I didn’t even have a headache! I started getting wavy almost pixelated lines in the middle of my vision. The first time it happened I was watching TV and working on the computer and I mistakenly thought something was wrong with the picture on the TV … until I realized I could barely read the words on my computer screen as well.

Within 15 minutes or so I could barely see at all. This was really scary the first time it happened! It was after Midnight and my husband was in bed and I didn’t think I could even get up to go and wake him up to tell him something was wrong with my eyes. Luckily after about 30 minutes the auras disappeared and then about two hours later I got a headache. The other two times this happened I never did get a headache.

From what I know of migraines (I worked in a Migraine and whiplash clinic as a nurse for 10 years (as well as my own experiences)) the auras were actual migraines … they just didn’t produce a bad headache or in two cases no headaches at all.

Compared to the pain of a bad migraine I think I’d almost prefer the “almost no vision’ aura migraines – well if they weren’t so darn scary, I would!

Do you suffer from frequent headaches or migraines? Have you ever suffered from auras or vision problems before, during or after a headache/ migraine?

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try Tagged With: aura, cant see, frequent headache, headache, migraine, odd, peripheral vision, pixelated lines, scary, tunnel vision, vision problems, wavy lines

Why does my husband always bring home the wrong stuff?

February 19, 2010 by Tricia

Sometimes I wonder where my husbands head is at.

The other night, when he came home from work, I sent him out to the store to get some supplies I needed for the dinner I was making that night and to get us some allergy medication as we’d run out.

My husband and I both take allergy meds because we’re allergic to our dog. Yeah – we are. However the meds help us tolerate her without too many allergy related symptoms.

Anyway, my husband came home with the groceries that I’d asked for, but instead of getting a generic brand allergy medication he somehow managed to pick up supplements for weight loss.

How the heck did he do that? I’m pretty sure the weight loss stuff isn’t near the allergy stuff and uh the medications or supplements used in either product are different.

needless to say he had to go back to the store to return what he’d bought and get the correct allergy meds.

He does stuff like this all the time – even with a grocery list with the correct names of things I want written down. Is this just a guy thing or what?

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Life with Chris Tagged With: allergy meds, always, generic, groceries, grocery list, guy thing, husband, mistakes, need, often, weight loss, wrong thing

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