Lovely

Went down to talk to Marcy this morning. All the doors to the clubhouse were locked. It seems almost as if they are in siege mode. We had to make a full circumnavigation to ring the ship's bell attached to the wall. She buzzed us in. She asked how things were going.

Lisa let her know. She said she'd call in Pipe Dreams, and said something about the association. My silence ended. I told her that according to Wes, the association had fingered us for the cause of the difficulties, and that that was simply not the case. We haven't used the garbage disposal (save for weekly maintenance spins) since August 3. We're doing our part. She said Wes had been misinformed, that the association had split the bill three ways (between all the tenants on our pipe), but that the upstairs folks are concerned since they're not seeing any problems. Fuck them, I think, but keep it to myself.

Lisa takes over, requesting the phone buzz in device for the gate (helpful ESPECIALLY [wink wink nudge nudge] since the plumber is coming); Marcy takes note but does not tell us when that will be activated.

We also ask about the pool, and if it will be open Friday. Marcy doesn't think so. She says the pool had been vandalized: tagged on the floor, with two side steps chipped away. They have to empty the pool to do the work, and it still has about a quarter of its water. Of course, the fact that they have only one tiny pump sucking water out might be a problem.

This mis-management and total lack of priorities is unbelievable. They've been sucking water out of the pool for over a week now, and there's still water in it? How much would it cost to get one big pump and finish it off in one day?

But they don't seem to give a shit.

I hate this place... cannot wait to see it in my rear view mirror for the last time... never look back, and never give it a sideways glance when we go to the beach.

Wes just called: he claims that the plumbers are "incoming" and should be here around noon.

woofreakinhoo

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UPDATE: 1:45 ... Pipe Dreams just showed up. He says the residue in the shower is sand. He's going to work on the sink (there's corrosion causing the leak). He's running water through all the fixtures but there's no back-up... so it's not us. News freakin' Flash.

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UPDATE: 3:00 ... Pipe Dreams just left. He fixed the leak in the boys' bath, and ran the water through all the fixtures. It's the plumber's hypothesis that both upstairs neighbors ran their washing machines at the same time and the volume of water had nowhere to go but up our shower... that would explain the suds in the shower, and if they were washing sandy swimming trunks, that would explain the sand. I just checked the shower. It still stinks. I poured bleach down it and mopped up the remaining sand that he didn't flush down the pipes.