Major meltdown
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kengr... is barely being avoided.
A couple weeks ago we had a "pre-inspection" at the apartments.
That was fairly stressful. And involved a lot of back and forth to storage.
Turns out it was because *next* month the building gets inspected by HUD or some such.
They found several things that need fixing.
Good news: They are replacing the carpet and I get a new stove.
Bad news, they are also replacing the kitchen and bathroom flooring *and* working on the floors/sub-floors. And painting.
So, this means that they'll be having movers pack everything up, and put me in a hotel for a week.
This all by itself is scary on a lot of levels. With my various mental problem, just having people I don't know & trust in the apartment for any length of time is bad.
Having them messing with my stuff is worse.
Now add in the fact that they've got a fairly new rule her that says you can't have more than 20% of the space as "storage". I've been trying to work my way down to it, but my storage locker is really packed. *Badly* packed because of (among other things) a "friend" of a "friend" of Fay's who helped move some stuff I had at Fay's old apartment back to storage. He "only had room" for Fay's friend and himself in the car, so *he* placed the stuff into the locker.
When I had to haul other stuff into storage I found that rather than take it to the back of the mostly open area along one wall, he'd just stacked it in *front of* that open area. And I had to have the person who was helpefd with that later run shift it back because I couldn't manage it (I'd been moving stuiff all day before that and I just didn't have the strength.
So things are *severely* non-optimal. Not helped by a number of boxes that can't have things stacked on top of them.
I'd had plans to start re-organizing. And and made the first trip to do some of it last week. But it's going to take a long time because I can only get the better boxes for shifting stuff into (ones that will stack higher than I can manage, and won't collapse/crush. And then I need to play 3D Tetris to get old boxes out and stuff transferred to the new boxes.
I also planned to get the boxes of comics slowly transferred to proper comic boxes, and sorted (at first just by "brand" except for titles like the X-men that will sell easily(. Eventually, I'd get them all separated by title and most of them sold. But due to the cost of boxes, and time constraints, that was going to be a *very* long term project.
Now? When they are done working on the apartment, they aren't going to *let* me move more than the "20%" back in. And it would appeatr that bookcasesm stereo shelves, and desks all count as storage.
What the hell I'm going to do with the rest of the stuff I don't know. Even worse, what am I going to do every damn time I need something and it's stored by them or buried in storage because I had to cram stuff in any which way. (I've already got stuff I could use (or sell!) that's buried that way)
There's some "ancient" and bad history involved too. Way back when I got the current storage locker, I planned to put in lots of shelving units so I could actually get at stuff, and not have to worry about stacking problems. I got two units. That was all of the unit I wanted that was in stock.I could have afforded all opf them I'd needed (at a guess 11 or 12)
The person who was helping me get them and haul them was supposed to help me get the rest later. Never happened. Which is all too typical of my life. If I have to have someone else's assistance to do something, they flake out. Never follow thru. And there's only so much prompting you can do when you *need* has to be a "favor" from someone.
Oh yeah, still more fun. My (ancient) bookcases likely won't survive being moved. Last time I tried to move one it came apart. And my futon/couch has a broken piece that's propped up with a concrete block. It may not survive either.
A couple weeks ago we had a "pre-inspection" at the apartments.
That was fairly stressful. And involved a lot of back and forth to storage.
Turns out it was because *next* month the building gets inspected by HUD or some such.
They found several things that need fixing.
Good news: They are replacing the carpet and I get a new stove.
Bad news, they are also replacing the kitchen and bathroom flooring *and* working on the floors/sub-floors. And painting.
So, this means that they'll be having movers pack everything up, and put me in a hotel for a week.
This all by itself is scary on a lot of levels. With my various mental problem, just having people I don't know & trust in the apartment for any length of time is bad.
Having them messing with my stuff is worse.
Now add in the fact that they've got a fairly new rule her that says you can't have more than 20% of the space as "storage". I've been trying to work my way down to it, but my storage locker is really packed. *Badly* packed because of (among other things) a "friend" of a "friend" of Fay's who helped move some stuff I had at Fay's old apartment back to storage. He "only had room" for Fay's friend and himself in the car, so *he* placed the stuff into the locker.
When I had to haul other stuff into storage I found that rather than take it to the back of the mostly open area along one wall, he'd just stacked it in *front of* that open area. And I had to have the person who was helpefd with that later run shift it back because I couldn't manage it (I'd been moving stuiff all day before that and I just didn't have the strength.
So things are *severely* non-optimal. Not helped by a number of boxes that can't have things stacked on top of them.
I'd had plans to start re-organizing. And and made the first trip to do some of it last week. But it's going to take a long time because I can only get the better boxes for shifting stuff into (ones that will stack higher than I can manage, and won't collapse/crush. And then I need to play 3D Tetris to get old boxes out and stuff transferred to the new boxes.
I also planned to get the boxes of comics slowly transferred to proper comic boxes, and sorted (at first just by "brand" except for titles like the X-men that will sell easily(. Eventually, I'd get them all separated by title and most of them sold. But due to the cost of boxes, and time constraints, that was going to be a *very* long term project.
Now? When they are done working on the apartment, they aren't going to *let* me move more than the "20%" back in. And it would appeatr that bookcasesm stereo shelves, and desks all count as storage.
What the hell I'm going to do with the rest of the stuff I don't know. Even worse, what am I going to do every damn time I need something and it's stored by them or buried in storage because I had to cram stuff in any which way. (I've already got stuff I could use (or sell!) that's buried that way)
There's some "ancient" and bad history involved too. Way back when I got the current storage locker, I planned to put in lots of shelving units so I could actually get at stuff, and not have to worry about stacking problems. I got two units. That was all of the unit I wanted that was in stock.I could have afforded all opf them I'd needed (at a guess 11 or 12)
The person who was helping me get them and haul them was supposed to help me get the rest later. Never happened. Which is all too typical of my life. If I have to have someone else's assistance to do something, they flake out. Never follow thru. And there's only so much prompting you can do when you *need* has to be a "favor" from someone.
Oh yeah, still more fun. My (ancient) bookcases likely won't survive being moved. Last time I tried to move one it came apart. And my futon/couch has a broken piece that's propped up with a concrete block. It may not survive either.
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Date: 2014-08-20 03:11 am (UTC)Those rules are ludicrous!
If I were you, I'd send them an invoice for the replacement cost of the bookshelves and bed.