Today I woke up in a foul mood, well it’s been day 2 of my foul mood in the morning. Mainly it’s due to how my sons legs are looking! Prior to moving into this house, we were told by the landlord’s daughter that the carpet would be cleaned and things that were broken would be fixed. This was in the beginning of January. When we moved in, nothing was fixed and the carpet was still dirty. I started to see pet hair on day one along with a juice stain in the carpet in the living room. On top of that the stove and refrigerator was still dirty and we had to remove items from the house that was left by previous tenants. I don’t believe they did anything to this place prior to us moving in!

So we’ve been constantly calling the landlord whom lives in PA to ask him to have the items fixed. He hardly ever returns our phone calls and I’m getting really fed up with waiting to have things done in this house. My youngest son is allergic to pet hair. It causes his legs to break out severely! And it’s getting worst each day. I’ve never seen my sons legs this bad before so yes, I’ve been in a foul mood and for good reason. It’s so bad now that it’s starting to travel up his back. It looks like something is eating him alive!

This morning I had it with waiting. I scheduled an appointment with Stanley Steamer and told my husband that I was going to have someone else come in and clean the carpet and for him to call that landlord up and tell him that we are going to take every repair we make out of the rent. We shouldn’t have to wait week after week for repairs to be done. Waiting on him and my son will end up having legs that look like they belong to some type of reptile instead of a child! Our appointment is on Tuesday next week, which means as of Tuesday, my sons legs can begin to heal and I won’t have to see dog hair anymore!

I got rid of my cat just for that reason as well as the fact that she made our house stink, and I knew we were moving into a carpeted house. I didn’t need that extra aggravation of having to deal with pet hair and my sons legs breaking out because the house is carpeted. What’s funny is the landlord called my husband back immediately after he left the message telling him that we were taking repair costs out of the rent. Isn’t that funny? He can’t seem to call anyone back until we say he isn’t getting all of his rent money. My husband told him that we are tired of waiting for something to be done and he will be getting the receipts for the carpet cleaning and repairs along with his deducted rent until all repairs are completed.

I also believe we are going to have to have a window or two replaced because there is an energy leak in this house. Most of the windows are replaced, but there are 6 windows that aren’t and I believe there’s an energy leak in two of them. I’m going to make an appointment for that as well because we cannot afford to be paying a $3000 heating bill due to bad windows. It just seems like no matter where we go, we always end up with a sorry ass landlord. Well, this time I’ve decided that we are going to take matters into our own hands because I am fed up with it.

BTW: Thanks Carla for the idea!