The contractor saga continues..

Okay, so basically I came on here to vent again!  LOL  So, after the contractors were basically bathing in our pool and sitting on our vehicles and leaving about 20 nails and lunch trash and vinyl siding on our front doorstep....

Today, they were to send out another crew of 2 guys, instead of the original 5.  The owners wife was to come to supervise all day.  So, they show up about 11:30 with their kids and the wife and her two friends all hanging out in my yard...okay fine at least shes supervising....She then proceeded to sunbath in the backyard while smoking about 3 packs of ciggerettes...um, okay..then, you guessed it, left all those butts all over our yard!!  She also never apologized to me personally.  Later in the day, my window is cracked and I can hear her over my typing, so I stop to listen.  LOL  She is complaining loudly on her cell phone how she has to babysit all day because the renters b*tched about the pool.  She was also saying it was only a 1000 galloon pool, so who gives a crap, whats the problem!?!  The pool is actually a 16' pool.  My feelings are that it does not matter if it is a baby pool or an inground pool you do not go to someones house and wash the sweat and dirt off at the end of the day in their pool!

Let me know what you all think!  Do you think I was being too hard on them having a problem with this?  Ugh one more day of work left for them to finish I think.  I'll have to see what happens tomorrow.

• The contractor saga continues.. - from post below
  • Question to you... - Lannie
    • Dont think you have a leg to stand on - Lannie
      • Oops think you misunderstood my post - please sm...
        • i would withhold the check or have your landlords withhold it sm - LMT
        • Breaking your things, why not call the - Lannie

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I really appreciate everyone's advice regarding my son and what I should or shouldn't do.  We have had a really interesting weekend.  Not fun interesting.  There was a football game this weekend so he was busy Friday night and Saturday and Sunday he had free.  I offered to let him come home for the day but he didn't want to.  That was fine. 

We went about our day and something told me something was wrong.  Mother's intuition I guess.  He took his car (which is our car that we are making payments on and paying the insurance on and is in our name) and drove it through one pretty darn big city without our permission to his girlfriend's college 2-1/2 hours away to see her on a Sunday afternoon.  It is his car to drive but we had already told him that we were not ready for him to drive that trip.  The car would be signed over to him when and only when he successfully completes college.  We have told him two or three times since school started that he was not to make that drive.  Since he knew we would say no, he just did it. 

Well I texted him a twice and he didn't answer me. My husband texted him a twice and he didn't answer him.  About two hours later he answered.  So when I got home he texted me with this elaborate story of where he was about to go and why he would be out of pocket for awhile.  Alarms went up.  I called him and asked if he was in his room.  He said yes.  I asked him to get on his computer.  He gave me a cock-n-bull story about being on his roommates computer.  I said get on your own.  I see his girlfriend's messenger name sign off immediately. He said what do you want me to do.  I said I want you to log on your screen name.  He told me that his computer wasn't working, he'd have to restart.  Meanwhile I could see while he was restarting his away message was still there.  He restarted.  I said I want you on your screenname.  He signed on.  I said, OK I want you to put up your "I'm in calculus message" (knowing he couldn't duplicate it).  He tried bless his heart but I knew where he was. 

I asked him if that is where he was.  No mom.  I asked him if his roommate was there.  He said no (previously he had said he was there).  I said if I'm wrong I am going to owe you a real big apology but I want you to find a payphone and call me from it.  Figuring I could figure out by the area code if he was lying or I was wrong.  He said OK.  Well immediately I could tell he knew he was caught.  I handed the phone to his dad who he admitted it to.  His dad is going to get the car tonight.

I am so upset.  I am not mad.  I am disappointed.  If he had told me the truth right when I asked I would have been a little disappointed and a little proud of him for stepping up to the plate.  He is going to at the very least not have a car for the rest of the semester, and I am pretty sure he won't do that again.  We called the girlfriend's parents to let them know what happened too.  We know them fairly well and I felt that they needed to know.  She doesn't have a car because they don't want her driving to where he is. 

Whether modular or traditional stick-built, there are a million details, legalities and regulations involved - and you'll likely still need some local subcontractors.  A good general contractor can save you a ton of grief and bad experiences.