Just Junk

Hello all well here's the story for the week. I decided since this week was a spend money week to take a break this weekend and go to some community yard sales. I love yard sales. I went to a new one and one I  go to yearly.  All I can say is the first community yard sale was in Douglaston . The houses were by the water they were big and beautiful.. The yard sales not so much. The houses that you had to go to were to spread out. Also the streets were to narrow . Which made  driving crazy because yard sale shoppers tend to park their cars in the middle of the street. They have no consideration for other drivers when it comes to them shopping at yard sales.  It got to frustrating so I moved on. Plus the things that were being sold was to expensive and I did not need them.

The  2nd community yard sale in  Williston Park  was a better driving situation but they had the same old stuff from the last 2 years. We did cover a lot of yard sales in this area. But the stuff was  about the same in every house and the prices were a bit higher. It was just a day out to get some air and look and see what people were selling.

Needless to say I have to much stuff to sell myself to even think about buying anybody else's stuff to sell.

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Scary

Hello all I know Halloween is around the corner. But  even before  that day  I still have scary thoughts. What about you? I am scared of being homeless, not have enough money for medications, my teeth falling out. I have gum disease.  Not being able to live on my income which is not much if something were to happen to my partner. All these scary thoughts keep me up at night. 

I am trying to correct and do better with some of the things that I mentioned. I am trying to make a budget and stick to it. I am looking for ways that I can cut back and cut down. But living in New York no matter what you do is expensive from food to repairs. Heck they are charging us for air. Kidding but I would not put it pass New York to do that.

I know that your saying you can not predict what life will throw at you , No you can not but you can be prepared by doing the right things like planning the best you can. So when life throws you crazy stuff  you will be prepared for it financially I am talking about.

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2 Days

  Hello all well here's the story. 2 days it took to get a plumber in to look at my hot water heating tank and my heating system in my rental. Which I am glad it's empty at the moment. Anyway I had an appointment on Monday with the plumber he never showed.  The company he works for stated that he went to the wrong place. Who's fault was that? Now day 2 he finally shows up and fixed the problem and they have a nerve to charge me $1200. The killer part is two things I have not gotten the part to fix my hot water heater which would be about $500.  The part is  on order. Also these repair companies are charging $75 just to tell you what's  wrong with the item that needs to be fixed. To add insult to injury they include  the  $75 to the price of the bill if they have to fix it.  Not anymore that $75 is separate from the labor charge and parts  that you might need.

 Con Edison  already came and told me what was wrong with my systems for free. So why should I pay your repair company $75 to tell me the same thing? . If you don't have insurance money or house money you are going to be screwed. Repair   companies are now charging you  crazy prices to come and see what's needs to be fix. Forget  what they will  charge you to fix it.

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Who Knew??

  Hello all well here's the story for the week. Who Knew?. I told you that I needed a plumber for my hot water heater in my rental. I started to call the company that I always used. But when I asked my facebook group about them did I get a ear full about the company. I even read the Yelp reviews and the bottom line is the company is a rip-off.

The last time they came to the house to  repair something. They told me I need new pipes in certain areas of the home and if I did not get them fixed the pipes would break and I would get a lot of water in my basement. I thought they were right so I did the job for $1700. Come to find out they have pulled that same scam on other customers. They Got Me or shall I say my money.

 It's hard now a days to believe anybody will come and do honest work. What happen to the good old repair people back in the day. Now I only see people who want to scam you. Such a shame.

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Thanks Hurricane Ida

  Hello all well here's the story for the week. I have never worked so hard as I have done this week.  Yesterday I worked mopping, scooping water , cleaning bathrooms. all because Hurricane Ida hit New York and   flooded a lot of my area's basements with water. Thank god it was my rental and the basement was empty just tiled flooring and nothing else to much. Well my neighbor  told me that the water was coming out of the toilets in the basements  and it kept coming because of the heavy downpour of rain  Ida had given us. Thanks Ida or mother nature.

Anyway my rental basement damage was enough  that we worked  cleaning the floor as much as we could of the  dirt and left over  water . The water smelled like fish it was nasty.  Thank god my mother installed a  french drain in the basement years ago because we use to get a lot of water in the basement. The French drain pumps  the water into a big barrel in the basement and then it takes the water in the barrel and pumps it out into the street from under the house.  That saved me from seeing a swimming pool in my basement when I got  there. Oh yea my rental home is the house I use to live in if I forgot to tell you that. Now the problem is  I have to call a plumber because the switch on the hot water heater was damaged because of the high water. Also I need to check the washing machine and dryers system so much to do. It's a hot mess.

While working  on clean up was bad  it could have been worse. I will call my insurance company to see what they can do. I know  it's time to sell. Let somebody else have a turn  cleaning up water in the basement. I have done it for years and I am tired.

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