Subject: Re: Compensation for six months of ongoing construction, requested
From: jeanadeleking@aol.com
Date: 10/18/13 14:02
To: fscked@sbcglobal.net

Richard,
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I don't know to what end you are making these things up, the things you wrote about in your last email.
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A roof cannot be fixed during the rainy weather, besides, my brother did a temporary repair shortly after you complained about the roof, and you know this.?Later, ?he began the construction of a new roof , with your approval. In fact you were the one who first suggested a new roof to me!
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I have been considering selling the house over the last month? or so, but did not make up my mind until day before yesterday.
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What do you mean by compensation? Where do you even get that??My brother has been busy doing the following:
1.?building a new roof with skylights over the sunroom
2. tearing up the old spa and installing a new deck
3. creating a new fence in the back
4. fixing water damage/rot in the sunroom area, from the outside.
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I contracted with my brother, and no one else, to do the work on the outside of the house, and I informed you of this. I do know?my brother?has had other jobs as well, which perhaps is what has kept him from performing the work on the house you are renting?for 8 or more hours/day. He is still going to repair the other patch of rot on the sunroom wall and complete the fence. I don't imagine this will take him longer than another 7-10 days.
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You as a tenant, also violated our rental agreement by:
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Installing a chicken coup, along with chickens (by your own admission), without my permission. What made you think you could put chickens and a coup in the back yard?of my suburban house?without my permission??By the way, my brother said he found a dead chicken under the old deck quite a while ago, which was already decayed. It would have died before the fence was even opened by my brother to start repairs. Dead, decaying?animals are a health hazard, Richard.?
Having other people (who are not on the rental agreement)?live there, without my permissio
Demolishing my sprinkler system in the front yard and back yard, without my permission
Ruining what was once a back yard. There is no longer any grass in the back yard, just crops, without my permission.
Dumping a huge amount of leaves & sawdust or grass on the front yard, without my permission. By the way, please remove this pile of debris from the lawn by tomorrow, if not already done so.
Doing away with the birdbath that was in the back yard, without my permission
Storing an enormous amount of wood which completely fills the driveway to the house, without my permission.
Not being there for a?scheduled walk through, which I am entitled to do, without rescheduling.
Keeping compost bins or compost areas in the front and side yards, without my permission. And leaving them there
after I requested you move them.
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I have photos of the above damage to my property/violations of our rental agreement.
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You are completely out of line to suggest that my brother was?out of bounds?in any way. He?has been?there trying the fix the house. You are wrong to think I have to give you notice every time my brother comes, as he is the one who has been doing the ongoing repairs, and you know this. On more than one occasion, I have given you his phone number to discuss the exact schedule of the repairs with him. Apparently, you never?did call him. ?On the other hand, even though I gave you notice (twice) that I was coming, you did not abide by it and were not there, or did not answer the door, on the?morning we were supposed to do a walk-through together.
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Also, you in no way financed the sunroom roof. You know that is a total untruth. How do you even get that?
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As for my brother pushing your hat off your head, he denied he did that to me. So what is this all about?
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You need to leave the property, along with your family in 60 days.?Sorry. I am within my rights as a property owner to give?you that notice.
I also need you to fix the damage?you have done to the property before you leave. Please refer to our rental agreement.
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I had a huge laugh, and continue to laugh about your assertion that my brother dyes and streaks his hair, because he is so full of himself. Actually you're wrong about that! Richard, are you envious of my brother's good looks? Otherwise, why would your attacks get so personal?
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Regards,
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Jean King?
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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Childers <fscked@sbcglobal.net>
To: jeanadeleking <jeanadeleking@aol.com>
Sent: Fri, Oct 18, 2013 7:06 am
Subject: Compensation for six months of ongoing construction, requested

 
 
 
Jean, 
 
When I complained to you about the leaking roof, it was not acted upon  
for several months, if I recall correctly. 
 
I think your brother started working on the roof of the sunroom in April  
or maybe May. 
 
It took him all summer to finish the roof. That translated into us not  
having access to the deck and full use of the sunroom for a quarter of a  
year. 
 
Having finished the roof, your brother then began to tear down the fence  
and deck. 
 
It's three months later and he still hasn't finished. 
 
There's still a rotting spot on the side of the sunroom that he hasn't  
repaired. 
 
It's not that he doesn't know it's there. He repaired similar spots on  
the top and the other side. He knows they are there. 
 
And it's not like he hasn't prowled around the entire perimeter of the  
house, without permission, when no one was home, looking for things to  
complain about, to you. 
 
Not only is the deck navailable to us, the back yard is full of things  
that were on the deck, and these things interfered with our use of the  
back yard, and its maintenance. 
 
Indeed, a lot of the work has come to a halt because we can never  
predict when your brother will decide to stop by for five minutes, and  
do just enough to work to wake people up from their naps or interrupt  
our routines. I don't want to deal with him. I didn't want him here. I  
still don't. 
 
(Call me peculiar ... but I do not trust a man who is over 50, and still  
dyeing his hair, even getting streaks put in his hair - no doubt, at  
considerable and semi-weekly expense of time and money - in a desperate  
attempt to present himself as something he is not. That does not lend  
your brother and depth of character - more, the opposite.) 
 
 
I put up with these inconveniences and invasions of my privacy because I  
understood that it was the price to pay for a good roof, and a deck that  
I did not have to fear falling through. 
 
Now, before it has even begun raining again, I am being told that I will  
not be allowed to enjoy this new roof that I financed the construction  
of and was significantly inconvenienced by the repair of. 
 
It seems I will never receive the benefits of the new deck, either -  
because the fence STILL isn't finished. 
 
Your brother is STILL showing up, at random, in the middle of the day,  
whenever it is convenient for him, without any notice whatsoever - you  
know, the ritual 48 to 72 hours' notice that is embedded in our agreement. 
 
 
Speaking of holes in fences - something with claws, and teeth, came  
through the hole in the fence, and killed my last chicken a month or so ago. 
 
(So long as there is a gap in the fencing, I'm not sure what it is - but  
it's not a fence, because it doesn't fence, if I'm any judge of things.) 
 
I didn't say anything about our dead pet chicken - because it seemed to  
be part of the price of letting your brother, Mark, work, ever so  
slowly, week after week after week after week after week, on finishing  
the deck, and, some day, the fence. 
 
 
And I haven't forgotten how your brother hit me, with his hat - as if he  
were El Jefe, and I, his humble peasant. 
 
I am personally convinced that it was your brother's suggestion that you  
issue the 60-day notice, now. I would not be surprised if he has been  
working so slowly, towards this specific end. 
 
How long ave you known that you intended to sell the house? 
 
 
Regards, 
 
~richard