There I was, minding my own business...

[melaniesuzanne]

I was happily snoozing, fully prepared to be late for work -- not that I have a set start time, but I do like to be online by 10am -- when a couple of someones set a ladder against the front of the house and then banged on the front door.

The hell?

I greeted them, unhappily, and they presented me with a work order requested by Melanie last Friday to replace the rotten wood around the front windows and the window sills. But... I was out of town last Friday and I haven't submitted a request for that repair yet. The other weird thing was the ticket had our pre-Fios phone number on it. I called Hubbyfink to ask if he'd called. Nope. One of the repairmen said he was on the phone with Melanie to verify that she requested the work.

"But I'm Melanie!" I replied at about the same time the woman on the phone told the guy he had a wrong number.

I called the association office and the secretary told me that sometimes the property manager writes up work requests on behalf of residents after he does walk-throughs of the community. Ah.. okay. Well, good thing I hadn't gone to work early and I had my laptop here so I can babysit while the guys crawl in and out of the open windows upstairs.

Hubbyfink and I were going to request the repair, but we didn't know if it should be done before or after we get new windows. That question is now moot. The hazard? benefit? of living in a condo cloaked as a townhouse, I suppose.

Comments

[greta-k.livejournal.com]

The property manager should at least INFORM you when he pulls this stuff. What if you had been out of town, or if they had let the cats out when you weren't home?

[melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com]

Yeah, a heads-up would have been nice. They couldn't have let the cats out, though, because they don't have a key to our house. So that's good.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

That's kind of surreal & creepy, actually. Have to say I continue to be glad we are in a non-neighborhood-association place.

[melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it is. On the other hand, I don't have to pay for these repairs so there is a positive side.

They've now finished the construction phase and are painting the woodwork to match the existing stuff.

[danabren.livejournal.com]

You clearly have mad pyschic skills to have done this while being out of town! Pity your psychic skills don't extend to sending out the right phone number or telling YOU that this has been done!

Yeah, creepy that the property manager doesn't take credit for making the request for work being done, wtf?

[melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com]

I want my mad psychic skills to win me the lottery, gosh darn it!

[danabren.livejournal.com]

Clearly your mad skills do NOT extend to numbers. Otherwise you would NOT have given your pre-FIOS number to the worker drones.

[melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. That makes a scary amount of sense. Ratfarts.