Hissy Fit Landlord Rant

Double GAH!!!

Today is the first nice day in practically ALL of May. It’s sunny, lightly breezy and the sun is shining! This is forecast to be the best day of this long holiday weekend. Brian has to work. I planned to take the dogs outside, grab my book, set up the hammock and sway the afternoon away.

DENIED!!!

Jekyll & Hyde Landlady sent the yard boy over. That’s cool. (Nothing against him, I brought him back an iced coffee and bagel.) But then SHE had to come over. I was already outside doing poop patrol with my new $35.00 pooper-picker-upper device. So I said, meh, I might as well talk to her about my idea of putting up one of those temporary fences so I don’t have to worry about the dogs getting run over by Erica and Scott who zoom into the driveway like it’s a frikken raceway…and I don’t have to worry about them going over to the fence to stir Lucky up so he barks like a damned fool. (I’ve pretty much given up on my idea of a pool…she won’t go for that…biznatch!!) She acted like I was asking her to cut the frikken house in half or something. *Shakes head*

Man I need my own PLACE. Where if I want to I can put up fencing all around my house if I frikken feel like it. I might even paint each part of my fencing a different neon color — just.bcause.I.can. (No I wouldn’t.)

It ended with her asking me to print out a picture of what I had in mind. Instead I got her email address and sent this:

Hey Catherine:

This is what I had in mind…provided it’s not going to cost me a small fortune.

http://poolbarrier.com/photogallery/photogallery.htm

As stated, I like to have the dogs outside with me when it’s nice out and it’s difficult to keep them from the driveway. Where they go next to the fence and get Lucky barking or could possibly get hit by a car zooming into the driveway. It’s not intrusive or unattractive or permanent. I’d put a swinging door partition on it near the house for access in and out. It wouldn’t block the driveway at all.

Thanks for your consideration, let me know.

Tamara

I hate kissing ass. Wanna lay odds she says NO? Even though it will be NO cost to her?

There are just some people who are control freaks. She sounds a lot like my department manager. The ideas are good ones only if they’re hers. I hope that you’re wrong and she allows the fence. Good luck!

but you’re being respectful. i’d be shocked if she said no to that. really shocked. i’m lucky that my LL for the most part, tho insane, ends up letting us do whatever we want. have you 2 thought about purchasing?

That products looks interesting. I have a friend who put in something called invisible fencing. The dog has to wear a collar until he gets use to the property line. Cozmo got zapped once and never left the yard after that. I think they have a website by that name too.

http://www.invisiblefence.com/index.asp

I knew there was something I was missing! That was Kelly Rippa! A noter also told me they thought it was her sternum. It looks to me like she needs to eat! P.S. Okay.. shocking isn’t the word. lol But she may like that since she doesn’t have to see it.

I can’t TELL you how high I jumped for joy when I was FINALLY able to buy my first house last year. Landlady’s SUCK!