With an older building there is always some maintenance issue that needs to be addressed. Truthfully it seems like there are more issues or potential issues to be dealt with than hours in the day (or willing volunteers).
Or the short way to say it is there's always something.
The porches that are a little over a year old are already having problems with severely splitting wood and rails coming apart from the posts.
Our porches should have that type of weathering in year eleven or twelve, not going into year two.
You know I'm all over it with the Porch People. Naturally any lack of timely response to my e-mails from my neighbors is slowing the process down significantly. I mean people pissed and moaned about the porches at our last meeting yet haven't responded to an e-mail asking them to detail their concerns.
Jesus take the wheel.
You'll be hearing alot of that phrase in the future. 'Cause at this point, I just have to put it in Jesus' hands 'cause I can't do any more.
Anyhoo...
I'll send another e-mail and post signs in the foyers to give people a last ditch effort to throw in their two cents. After that, Mama takes over.
The latest drama is that someone got a barbecue grill stolen off of their back porch highlighting the back fence issue and one of our buildings has a Noah's Ark type flood going on in the basement.
God I hope my vintage Christmas ornaments aren't ruined.
Jesus take the wheel.
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Jesus, buying a rehab scares me. I'm looking at stuff in Rogers Park, that not only strikes me as outrageously overpriced, but which I can see they did a very bad job of, in addition to destroying the appearance of the apts.
The past five years produced an appalling number of new and rehabbed buildings that people are going to practically have to rebuild from scratch... if indeed the places are salvageable at all. Some of this new crap will have to be torn down, it is so badly built.
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