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[05 May 2008|09:58am] |
Wow. Just wow. The tenants now list half a page of "improvements" and "necessary" repairs they've made to our property, informing us that they expect to be reimbursed for same. They didn't ask about any of these, many were things we very definitely did not want done, and one (count 'em, 1) may have been a good idea, if they are right in their assertion that it brought some wiring up to code.
They want us to pay for their having poisoned the entire place to get rid of some harmless bugs (box elders) that are attracted by the trees in the yard and will be back just as thick as ever as soon as the poison wears off. (I told them I disapproved of the use of poisons!) They want us to pay for the partial roof-mending they had agreed to do. They want us to pay for replacing a brand new air compressor, and elements in a water heater we had intended to instead replace with a larger, more energy-efficient model. They want us to pay for fixing outside lights we were going to ask the power company to stop powering. They want us to pay for replacing incandescent bulbs with fluorescent (a hundred so far, they claim), which would be a good idea...IF the incandescent were used in any area where they were, well, used. But we'd already replaced all the ones in the areas we used.
The list is longer. I'm having great difficulty not thinking ill of these people. They made these changes "at great personal sacrifice" because they expected to own the place. Like it's our fault they lied about their ability to pay? Damn.
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| Dear Tenants |
[05 May 2008|07:26pm] |
My best effort at a polite but pointed response to their whining is ( behind the cut. )
Edited to accommodate very helpful suggestions. Thank you to all who responded.
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