Here's what we've encountered:
- The property line is a good foot shorter than what we had been told by both the sellers real estate agent and the sellers themselves. This makes our narrow back yard even more narrow. That's not the main problem, however. The main problem is that the sprinkler heads have to be moved before we can start to put the fence in. It is good news that we got the fence permit, though!!! It's not as big of an undertaking as we feared, but it's still a project.
- The pipes under the kitchen sink are leaking. Again, not a big deal - but an annoyance for sure.
- The alarm company sent out a contractor to reset the alarms and show us how to use the system and after two hours he walked off the job. He came back a week later, after many frustrating calls to the service center, and was finally able to get things set up.
- The microwave stopped heating food - it's more expensive than a typical microwave because it is one of the ones that is mounted above the stove.
- When Eric took the microwave down to see if it had a back or a top exhaust, he found a hornets nest, swarming with hornets, inside the exhaust vent.
- We woke up this morning to a puddle of water on the kitchen floor. We thought maybe one of us didn't completely shut the freezer door. We went out for a few hours this afternoon and when we came back the kitchen was almost 50% covered in water. Eric reset the circuits and checked on some of the vents, etc. No dice. We had just come back from buying $100 in groceries including $25 in good meat.
We love it, we really do. I'm not trying to sound ungrateful. We're just ready to be settled (still unpacking, still unpacking a lot....) and to have things work (I mean this house is only 7 years old!!!) and to make this house our "home" and not some sort of money pit.
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