Alabama Craziness cont...

Sorry Kelly, had to get Jer some Scrubs for work right then!! I am not normally so cruel;) If you are just tuning in, read my other post first;)!!!

So, we arrived to our new apt with our fully loaded truck, our car, and jer's parents car, we were hot, tired, hungry, and very anxious to get into our place (Alt to B'ham is 2 1/2 hrs). The manager told us we had to sign 16 or so pages of a contract agreement before we could have our key. He rushed us through it and then gave us our key at which point we asked if the apt was definitely ready for us. He told us that yes it was although we may have to wipe down the counters with some 409 if anything and that the cleaning lady should have been in...and if for some reason she hadn't, just let him know and he'd take care of it. Now, at this point I need to back up a bit...When we first looked at the apt place he showed us 2 available ones--one was quite nice and the 2nd was absolutely trashed--rainbow color stains everywhere and trash and filth galore!! Turned out we were given the 2nd and they said that they had redone the apt and we had no need to worry. Well...hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa--yikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We opened the door and at first were highly impressed--new carpet and freshing painted walls. Then we checked out the patio, kitchen, and bathroom and I nearly fainted right then and there!!! They were horrendously filthy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The cleaning lady had not been in after all! We called the Manager and he told us he would come and clean as much as possible after his shift and that anything he couldn't do, the cleaning lady would do after the long weekend--ha in 3 days!!! Luckily we were headed back to Atlanta for the weekend anyway otherwise I don't know what we would have done:( I wanted so badly to cry and scream and laugh all at once. Well, I called Michael the manager on Sunday to find out if he really did clean and he said actually hadn't and he would get to it that evening--I made him assure me though that Jer would be able to take a shower in a clean tub and that we'd be able to use the kitchen on Monday and he assured me he'd have it ready (Jer was starting his new job on Tues).

We arrived Monday to find that only very basic cosmetic cleaning had been done and that the tub was just as filthy as ever!! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhh man was I livid, if I was a curser I would have cursed!!!!! I mean...our feet were sticking to the kitchen floor and well, I won't even tell you of all the grossness--maybe I'll post pics when I get a chance!! AND, there was a large bag of trash just sitting on our patio!! Anyway this whole past week I have been fighting like crazy with management trying to get them to do their job--they have finally come to do a little maintenance and a cleaning lady did a bit of cleaning but the situation is still pretty ugly--oh and we are getting 100 bucks off of rent!! We have only been able to unpack a few things!! Anyway, without telling you everything I will just tell you that Management has treated us sooooo badly that we got a hold of a relative of Jer's who is a big time lawyer...he has assigned a co-worker of his to us to deal with this mess. He is taking care of us as a friend to the family and so we will not be charged. Management is going to be extremely sorry that they didn't take 3 hrs to fix our place up!! It is all very stressful and yet very exciting at the same time!! We are pretty sure that not only will our place be fixed up but we will also most likely get a month's rent free. In the end things will be good for us!

Luckily, thru all of our traveling, and our boxes being everywhere, and filth being all around, Eli has been a little angel for which we are extremely grateful!! Now, although management has put a bit of a bad taste in our mouths, Hoover (part of B'ham) is wonderful, very pretty, and full of fun things to do and see. We are sure we'll love it here once everything settles down!! Anyway, soory about the majorly long post!! We just had to share with y'all!

Take care:)