Hi, Guest
07-20-2005, 12:00 PM
As alot of you know I recently moved(July 1) to Saskatoon, Sk from Yorkton, Sk. Everything was going great. Got everything packed in Yorkton with the help of a moving company(United Vanlines).
Get to Sasktoon load my son stuff from his apartment into a half ton truck which we rented ( mover were supposed to do this but they deceided that I should make other arrangement...4 days before the move. Where the hell was I going to get a Uhaul on short notice on a long weekend in S'toon, plus a place to put my son stuff over nite. I called everyplace there was and finnally found a truck at Discount). Got it done and stored in a friend garage overnite.
We arrive a the new house just before noon to find the previous owner still moving there stuff out ....nowhere near done. My truck shows up but can't unload for 2 hours until the others are out.
So while they are moving out, my realator and I take a tour of the house. I want to scream at this point as I look at the condition of the house. It is a mess. Carpets a dirty, walls are all mess up, windows are broken, yard is full of weeds, the garabage bin is overflowing,living room window is steamed up and the list goes on.
For onething there mover did not put down carpet runner to protect the carpet plus they must have hit every corner with furniture as they were taking it out.
Lets just say I was not inpressed and then the homeowner is making excuses for everything.
When I viewed the house, it was clean and looked well taken care of even my home inspector said the thing. I had the home inspector back after I moved in and he had the same look on his face as I did when he walked into the house.Shock and Horror.
I need atleast $20G to put this house in shape.
I have a lawyer working on it to see what we can do. It is a good thing I have pictures of what the place looked before and after. And no I will not post any pictures at this time.We were in this house twice before we made the offer and I wish now I would have taken someone esle with me.
I know alot about houses as I renovated my last house so I do know what to look for. Alot of this stuff happen after I looked at the house and the home inspection was done. The previous owners just didn't give a dam after they sold.
We did a drive by two week before possession and found that the grass was a foot and half high on the front lawn and the garbage was overflowing then...It should have been a warning to us.
I could have call the whole thing off then. We did want to go into the house that weekend but were unable to as my realator could not get hold of the sellers realator.
A week after the move, Tyler discover the rims we were trying to sell (Konig) were damaged by the move. My moving will not take blame for them as we had put foam on them to protect them in the move(they could not examine them because they were cover) but they didn't make an effort to provide more protection for them either like wrapping them in blankets like I asked.Three of the four are damaged so now have to make a claim on house insurance for them.
And here is the kicker, I hurt my shoulder at work on my last set of nights.So now I am waiting on WCB as to where it will be a new claim or related it back to my old injury.
With all this that has been going on that is one reason why I haven't posted much in the last little while. This was to be a new start for me. Not much of start. Needless to say I have not been a happy camper.
I'm done and feel better getting it all out. I know there is light at the end of this tunnel.
Get to Sasktoon load my son stuff from his apartment into a half ton truck which we rented ( mover were supposed to do this but they deceided that I should make other arrangement...4 days before the move. Where the hell was I going to get a Uhaul on short notice on a long weekend in S'toon, plus a place to put my son stuff over nite. I called everyplace there was and finnally found a truck at Discount). Got it done and stored in a friend garage overnite.
We arrive a the new house just before noon to find the previous owner still moving there stuff out ....nowhere near done. My truck shows up but can't unload for 2 hours until the others are out.
So while they are moving out, my realator and I take a tour of the house. I want to scream at this point as I look at the condition of the house. It is a mess. Carpets a dirty, walls are all mess up, windows are broken, yard is full of weeds, the garabage bin is overflowing,living room window is steamed up and the list goes on.
For onething there mover did not put down carpet runner to protect the carpet plus they must have hit every corner with furniture as they were taking it out.
Lets just say I was not inpressed and then the homeowner is making excuses for everything.
When I viewed the house, it was clean and looked well taken care of even my home inspector said the thing. I had the home inspector back after I moved in and he had the same look on his face as I did when he walked into the house.Shock and Horror.
I need atleast $20G to put this house in shape.
I have a lawyer working on it to see what we can do. It is a good thing I have pictures of what the place looked before and after. And no I will not post any pictures at this time.We were in this house twice before we made the offer and I wish now I would have taken someone esle with me.
I know alot about houses as I renovated my last house so I do know what to look for. Alot of this stuff happen after I looked at the house and the home inspection was done. The previous owners just didn't give a dam after they sold.
We did a drive by two week before possession and found that the grass was a foot and half high on the front lawn and the garbage was overflowing then...It should have been a warning to us.
I could have call the whole thing off then. We did want to go into the house that weekend but were unable to as my realator could not get hold of the sellers realator.
A week after the move, Tyler discover the rims we were trying to sell (Konig) were damaged by the move. My moving will not take blame for them as we had put foam on them to protect them in the move(they could not examine them because they were cover) but they didn't make an effort to provide more protection for them either like wrapping them in blankets like I asked.Three of the four are damaged so now have to make a claim on house insurance for them.
And here is the kicker, I hurt my shoulder at work on my last set of nights.So now I am waiting on WCB as to where it will be a new claim or related it back to my old injury.
With all this that has been going on that is one reason why I haven't posted much in the last little while. This was to be a new start for me. Not much of start. Needless to say I have not been a happy camper.
I'm done and feel better getting it all out. I know there is light at the end of this tunnel.
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