2021

Happy New Year!!

I’m sure you’ve been dying for an update so here it is. Drum roll please…… THERE IS NO UPDATE. Everything is exactly as you remember it.

We are waiting for the final approved claim from the insurance company and she is ensconced in her new apartment surrounded by too many throw pillows and complaining about the neighbors.

Wait. Hasn’t it been 7 1/2 months? Yes. It has. We had a moment of joy a few weeks back when we bore witness to a crack in the foundation of the almighty contractor that was forced on us by the association and for the first time we saw the association rep stand up for us. As it turns out the almighty contractor was the one slowing things down and the last update we received was that the insurance contractor was doing the final estimate himself. Which… I would argue was his duty all along but what do I know? It still sits incomplete so nothing is different.

The expected work forced upon me each time I make more than 3 inquiries on the same topic happened. “Where are we at with receiving the final claim?” was met with “you know you have to demo the house” which I quickly followed with “how soon after the house is demoed are you prepared to start?” which was met with deafening silence.

And you and I both know - but they do not yet know - that the house is demoed. Because in that glorious slow no expectations week between Christmas and New Years my S was over there from 9 am until dark doing the demo himself. All the carpet. All the bathrooms and kitchens gutted. All the window trim and baseboards and light fixtures down. The full dumpster has been pulled but the jetted tub still sits in the driveway as an eyesore and a reminder to all residents of the HOA and indeed to the HOA itself that this situation is not acceptable.

And as I channel my fiesty father for the 100th time… “I dare them to bring it up to me.”