we have a leaky roof... and water damage - lots of water damage - enough that it went through the 2nd floor and into the first floor...
the condo corp is supposed to deal with this... the outside problems are always their responsibility and if those lead to problems on the inside they're responsible for that too..
and so, after reporting that there was water dripping onto the tv in the first floor livingroom we find out that they're going to do something about it... they're going to repair the roof and replace the ceilings in the affected rooms...
this will be the 3rd time in 5 years that they've had to do something about the roof - maintenance, both preventative (they used to have someone go and shovel snow off the roof to help prevent problems but not anymore) and restorative, has been markedly inadequate...Clearly...
now the problem (as if there aren't enough visible already)... the contractors hired by the condo corp's insurance agency need the affected rooms cleared out so they can work... in our house that accounts for the entire back half of the house and since the front half incorporates a garage, that means more than half of the above-ground living space needs to be cleared out and can't be used for actual living... that's a lot of space and a lot of stuff in it, and the condo corp has made no offers to help us with this - they've left us on the hook for the expense of enabling their contractors to clean up the mess caused by their negligence...
so we could pile all that stuff in the remaining living space and make it completely unlivable and move into a hotel until they're finished, or we could hire movers to move that stuff into storage that we'd need to rent until the contractors are finished and then hire more movers to move the stuff back - but both of those are expensive and rather a big hassle..
enter PODS (portable on-demand storage) which, instead of requiring you to bring your stuff to the storage container, brings the storage container to your stuff - it's a great option for us because it eliminates the cost of movers and unnecessary transportation of our belongings and still allows us to remain living in our townhouse while the work is going on...
but then the condo corp complains about the the storage pod, saying we needed to get permission from them first!... the nerve - the unmitigated gall - of complaining about a solution we found to a problem they manufactured for us... well, you can probably guess what i think of their complaint...
peel condo corporation #60 - you suck...
3 comments:
Yeah, it is always hard with people. We leave on the last floor in a 10 story building and when we moved in, we had to fix the roof on our money, even though theoretically it is "shared property". The upshot: since then when they try to complain about stuff like: "you can't put the external unit of an AC on that wall", we simply say: as soon as you pay your part, you can provide input in what we can and can't do. They didn't complain since :-)
hmm, i like the way you think...
so when our condo corp pays for moving the contents of those rooms out of the way of the contractors then they can have input on how it's done - and until then they can STFU...
Yeah,thats true the way cdman83 said i completely agree with his point of view.Even moveable cubicle is an option for you for the next time it's cheaper than PODS.you can visit the website here http://www.moveablecubicle.com/
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