We've been back in our house for about 2.5 weeks now. Getting re-settled was a lot easier this time because we simply knew where everything went. Unpacking was a breeze. Our guest room is now the only thing left to be finished. It's still a little cluttered with boxes and pictures yet to be hung. Hanged? Whatever. Our tenant left our house in pretty good condition which was such a relief. While our relatively short experience of being landlords was pretty easy, it isn't something I would recommend. It's a lot of stress and we even had a great tenant. Anyway, I'm just glad that part is over.
While the boxes were a breeze, it seems as though getting our house in working order again has proven quite difficult. Here are some annoying things we've encountered/currently encountering...
-For a while we thought we were blowing a fuse by plugging in an old halogen lamp. Every time we turned it on in our bedroom, the lights in the downstairs hall, guest room and bathroom would go out. It was very odd. Eventually we figured out by resetting one of the outlets in the garage (?) was the trick and now all the lights are playing well with others.
-We couldn't get our cable hooked up right away because our tenant hadn't transferred service. Comcast is stupid and won't turn off a service in order to turn on another service. Our tenant was having the same issue at her new place so we were last in line. We finally got it installed yesterday. However, the dummy hooking it up didn't realize that the other 2 cords in the cable box were for cable in multiple rooms. So he hooked up the family room, took the 3-way splitter from the box and left the other cords dangling! So now we have to go out and buy another splitter to fix the problem. GRR!
-Since we couldn't get cable installed right away, we had to with Qwest for phone and internet (we were going to bundle it all with Comcast, but they were stupid) because we couldn't go for weeks without internet with both of us on the job hunt. Well, that got hooked up, but of course in addition to the regular fees there is $75 worth of hook up costs! REALLY?! All they did is flip a freaking switch somewhere. Unbelievable!
-We have officially confused the post office. Here's the run down: A year ago we had our mail forwarded to CA. That fwding was supposed to expire 10/31/2010. When we moved back to CO, but weren't in our house yet, we had our mail sent from CA to my dad's house. Then when we had our house back, we fwded once again back to our original house. Well in the past 2.5 weeks we've received hardly any mail. The only stuff we receive is mail fwded from my dad's and CA, but nothing coming directly except stuff for "resident." Mail being sent directly to our home address is, we believe, being sent in a giant loop from our house, to CA, to my Dad's and hopefully back to us even though the original fwd is expired. We know something is definitely wrong because we haven't received our new ids, netflix dvds, or any of the tons of change of address notifications from banks, credit cards, bills, etc. We've put in 2 calls to the post office, but it's no where near resolved. A trip to the post office is in our future where we will no doubt get the run around again.
-Today fedex only delivered one of 2 identical christmas packages we ordered. The packages have 2 different tracking numbers, both of which come up as delivered, but we only got one. I called Fedex right away (having just missed the driver), but still don't have the package. I have a suspicion the driver took it thinking it was an accidental duplicate. ARG!
-And then there's all of our outdoor solar lights need new batteries, a toilet is running and needs a new flapper, our mailbox is halfway falling off it's pole and I can't wait to see what brakes next. Oy.
Oh, plus not having jobs really, really sucks. Who'da thought moving all the heavy boxes and furniture across several states and then from my dad's garage to the house would be the easiest part?! Phew!
