house woes, cont'd (again)
Sep. 20th, 2003 10:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivendellroseWhy does everything go wrong as soon as the self-designated bill-keeper is away?
Yesterday, Josie found a lovely little card on our front door (which we hardly ever use, so it's a damned good thing she came home from work that way) saying that our gas/electricity would be shut off in 48 hours if we didn't contact Puget Sound Energy. We immediately knew something was up, because we've never received any bills from Puget Sound Energy.
This morning Josie called the company and they explained that our gas account (which controls our water heater as well as the heating that we never use) hasn't been paid in a *very* long time--she got the impression that it was on the order of a year or more. Well... we've only been here since June. And all our bills come to us through our landlord. So it appears that Mr. Useless Sonofabitch has neither been paying nor passing the bill on to us. This is hardly the first problem we've had with him--we complained about that shower leak that causes water to drip down from the ceiling way back when we moved in. And nothing has changed.
So now we get to find out exactly how big a gas bill four months makes. They're going to count from when we moved in, and we're giving them our landlord's contact info so they can ream him for the rest. I'm glad about that--at least they aren't going to try to stick us with the whole thing.
Roommate Emily seems to have the idea that this is still unnacceptable and they shouldn't make us pay because it's the landlord's fault that we didn't get the bills. Josie and I think that we should be fine paying our rightful portion (although, I must say, this makes me yet again a very unhappy Jen in the financial department. I'd really hoped I wouldn't have any more big checks to write before going back to school.) Chris... is in England until the 25th. Hence my gripe about the bill-person being gone and everything going caput. Boy, will we ever have some stories to tell him when he gets back.
I can't wait to get back to the dorms. The bills there, at least, are expected. They don't just pop out of nowhere (for the most part). And as astronomical and horrifying as I'm sure the utilities are in those crazy cinderblocks, *I* at least never have to see them. I just hand over my check every quarter, including water, tuition, food, and the whole shebang. And life is happy. Ignorance, when it comes to numbers like that, is bliss.
Yesterday, Josie found a lovely little card on our front door (which we hardly ever use, so it's a damned good thing she came home from work that way) saying that our gas/electricity would be shut off in 48 hours if we didn't contact Puget Sound Energy. We immediately knew something was up, because we've never received any bills from Puget Sound Energy.
This morning Josie called the company and they explained that our gas account (which controls our water heater as well as the heating that we never use) hasn't been paid in a *very* long time--she got the impression that it was on the order of a year or more. Well... we've only been here since June. And all our bills come to us through our landlord. So it appears that Mr. Useless Sonofabitch has neither been paying nor passing the bill on to us. This is hardly the first problem we've had with him--we complained about that shower leak that causes water to drip down from the ceiling way back when we moved in. And nothing has changed.
So now we get to find out exactly how big a gas bill four months makes. They're going to count from when we moved in, and we're giving them our landlord's contact info so they can ream him for the rest. I'm glad about that--at least they aren't going to try to stick us with the whole thing.
Roommate Emily seems to have the idea that this is still unnacceptable and they shouldn't make us pay because it's the landlord's fault that we didn't get the bills. Josie and I think that we should be fine paying our rightful portion (although, I must say, this makes me yet again a very unhappy Jen in the financial department. I'd really hoped I wouldn't have any more big checks to write before going back to school.) Chris... is in England until the 25th. Hence my gripe about the bill-person being gone and everything going caput. Boy, will we ever have some stories to tell him when he gets back.
I can't wait to get back to the dorms. The bills there, at least, are expected. They don't just pop out of nowhere (for the most part). And as astronomical and horrifying as I'm sure the utilities are in those crazy cinderblocks, *I* at least never have to see them. I just hand over my check every quarter, including water, tuition, food, and the whole shebang. And life is happy. Ignorance, when it comes to numbers like that, is bliss.
