With my deepest apologies to "people" whom read the trials and tribulations of Savage & Smooth. Also known as My Life. Let's do a two month recap of what's been going on the past two months. Which by the way isn't easy to go through, or try to chronologically jot down. I would also like to apologize for any inconsistencies for this read. Again, a lot has gone down... So, where to start.... (I do a quick gloss of my last post to figure out where I left off)
Last weekend I hosted my very own Out of the Darkness walk and raised $150 online and $98 at work. Which brings the grand total for $248! Which is by the way, above and beyond what I thought we could raise in the first place.
Saturday was a nasty day. Over cast was the name of the game. Lor looked at the forecast and told me it was supposed to let up before 11:00 and so in my head I said ONE thing to God... "God, you have a forecast schedule to stick too. Don't fuck me over." I'm sure that's not the best thing to say to God. But to be honest, it was like he had one day to NOT rain on my parade.
I showed up to the park and everyone I expected to be there was there. And I had a few surprises too which was nice. I had a photograph of my father for the walk and we all shared for a moment why we are all there. Everyone walked a 'nature walk' which had a beautiful scenery of the ocean and forest. Too soon 2 o'clock came and everyone went home before I could do my walk. However, a good friend walked with me and we talked about life. Then I went home.
This is an old story which I can't seem to get over. So, I'm going to go over it. I feel like this is something that could have been covered in a different post. However, this is a recap of 'Trials and Tribulations.' Nearly a month ago I got a phone call from our new property management.... Wait, let me go into this too....
So, when we moved into our beautiful condo in February it was nearly the worst situation to wind up in. Let's start with the fact the property management was a piece of shit. They knew two weeks in advance Lor and I were driving from Virginia to get into our condo. Then a week prior I called and said, 'We wont be able to make it on Friday. We'll see you on Monday." We spent the weekend in Woodburn and relaxed from traveling across America. We show up and the property management, "Churchill and Associates" was acting like they had no clue what we were talking about when we showed up. They gave us the garage to put our stuff into but kept the house keys till the utility guy 'fixed' whatever was wrong with the house. Fiar enough, but we had them pay for our hotel stay because Erica didn't put a sticky note on the property or even communicate with anyone we had intentions of moving in on Monday. What a hassle. Topping it all off I had mailed out a Safety Deposit two months prior and they had never "received" the check via mail. So they let us pay the rent and their job was to find the missing check. Two months later and I get a phone call on the 15th of March from them saying, "We haven't received your March Rent." Let's brake this down... On the MEMO section of the Check I've put what each check is supposed to be paying for. These fucks at Churchill and Associates took my March Rent check and applied it as a Deposit because they still hadn't found it. Then they tried to say I was late on my March rent. I KNOW! You can't write this shit.... But here I am.... Needless to say, after I talked to the book keeper I told her straight up, "You just used and official document of intended use in an illegal manner." I pulled up a picture via the bank statement to verify I wrote March Rent on the check she used as a Deposit. Then I said to her, "You will apply this check as the Months Rent as it should have been used as." She agreed and then goes on record to tell me it's company policy to do this without the renters' knowledge. What the fuck kind of policy is this!? You have a policy to commit fraud? Thank you Churchill and Associates, not.
Months later they defaulted on properties they "managed" and sold our property off to Tara Management.
Then about a month into us being owned by Tara Management we got a phone call about them needing to visit our home to inspect the property and see what kind of Dog we have. Okay, fine! They show up, look around the house and then told us our Home Owners Association filed a complaint stating our dog was killing the grass. In fact, I'll share with you the actual letter. And I'll add commentary as I go along...
Last weekend I hosted my very own Out of the Darkness walk and raised $150 online and $98 at work. Which brings the grand total for $248! Which is by the way, above and beyond what I thought we could raise in the first place.
Saturday was a nasty day. Over cast was the name of the game. Lor looked at the forecast and told me it was supposed to let up before 11:00 and so in my head I said ONE thing to God... "God, you have a forecast schedule to stick too. Don't fuck me over." I'm sure that's not the best thing to say to God. But to be honest, it was like he had one day to NOT rain on my parade.
I showed up to the park and everyone I expected to be there was there. And I had a few surprises too which was nice. I had a photograph of my father for the walk and we all shared for a moment why we are all there. Everyone walked a 'nature walk' which had a beautiful scenery of the ocean and forest. Too soon 2 o'clock came and everyone went home before I could do my walk. However, a good friend walked with me and we talked about life. Then I went home.
This is an old story which I can't seem to get over. So, I'm going to go over it. I feel like this is something that could have been covered in a different post. However, this is a recap of 'Trials and Tribulations.' Nearly a month ago I got a phone call from our new property management.... Wait, let me go into this too....
So, when we moved into our beautiful condo in February it was nearly the worst situation to wind up in. Let's start with the fact the property management was a piece of shit. They knew two weeks in advance Lor and I were driving from Virginia to get into our condo. Then a week prior I called and said, 'We wont be able to make it on Friday. We'll see you on Monday." We spent the weekend in Woodburn and relaxed from traveling across America. We show up and the property management, "Churchill and Associates" was acting like they had no clue what we were talking about when we showed up. They gave us the garage to put our stuff into but kept the house keys till the utility guy 'fixed' whatever was wrong with the house. Fiar enough, but we had them pay for our hotel stay because Erica didn't put a sticky note on the property or even communicate with anyone we had intentions of moving in on Monday. What a hassle. Topping it all off I had mailed out a Safety Deposit two months prior and they had never "received" the check via mail. So they let us pay the rent and their job was to find the missing check. Two months later and I get a phone call on the 15th of March from them saying, "We haven't received your March Rent." Let's brake this down... On the MEMO section of the Check I've put what each check is supposed to be paying for. These fucks at Churchill and Associates took my March Rent check and applied it as a Deposit because they still hadn't found it. Then they tried to say I was late on my March rent. I KNOW! You can't write this shit.... But here I am.... Needless to say, after I talked to the book keeper I told her straight up, "You just used and official document of intended use in an illegal manner." I pulled up a picture via the bank statement to verify I wrote March Rent on the check she used as a Deposit. Then I said to her, "You will apply this check as the Months Rent as it should have been used as." She agreed and then goes on record to tell me it's company policy to do this without the renters' knowledge. What the fuck kind of policy is this!? You have a policy to commit fraud? Thank you Churchill and Associates, not.
Months later they defaulted on properties they "managed" and sold our property off to Tara Management.
Then about a month into us being owned by Tara Management we got a phone call about them needing to visit our home to inspect the property and see what kind of Dog we have. Okay, fine! They show up, look around the house and then told us our Home Owners Association filed a complaint stating our dog was killing the grass. In fact, I'll share with you the actual letter. And I'll add commentary as I go along...
