X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00800000 X-Mozilla-Keys: Message-ID: <53E27B1B.1080107@sbcglobal.net> Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 11:59:39 -0700 From: Richard Childers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:10.0.3) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/10.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jessica.ppmrentals@gmail.com Subject: Regarding Removal of Electrical Outlet & Switch Plates Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------000607090008070509050805" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------000607090008070509050805 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jessica, I'm not sure that it is our responsibility to remove the wall plates, prior to exterminating an infestation of bedbugs - especially, one that, based on information and belief, flourished, as a result of both the owner, and the previous apartment manager, agreeing (conspiring?) to conceal the bedbug infestation from their own exterminators, as well as present and future tenants. Those wall plates are there for a reason. To protect children, and others in need of help, from electrical shocks. There are laws against removing them. Are you asking me to risk one of my family getting an electrical shock, to save you five dollars' worth of some PPM employee's time? * The wall plates, switches and power outlets are part of the premises.* I can move my possessions away from the walls. It's easier every day - we're putting all our stuff into storage, so that when we locate another place to move to, we can get out of here as fast as possible. In the meantime ... *the wall plates and the power outlets are the responsibility of the owner and property management.* That's what "property management" means. Maintenance. Someone has to do the work. I have no interest in doing PPM's work. In fact, it would be irresponsible for PPM not to go around and inspect every switch cover and wall plate, afterwards, to be sure that no tenants are at risk, as a result of missing screws. Why? Because, if this is what YOU do, when you're being PAID for your work .. what standard will the tenants - whom are NOT being paid - hold themselves to? And so, as surely as water running downhill ... screws will be lost ... plates will be lost ... and, a few weeks later, or maybe later, during the rainy season ... someone will shock themselves. Or a fire will be started, by arcing between a leaning lamp post and an uncovered outlet. Please hold yourselves to a higher standard. Please do not allow a generic handout, created by a low-bidding corporation devoted to killing insects, to displace your own natural intelligence. Regards, ~richard --------------000607090008070509050805 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jessica,

I'm not sure that it is our responsibility to remove the wall plates, prior to exterminating an infestation of bedbugs - especially, one that, based on information and belief, flourished, as a result of both the owner, and the previous apartment manager, agreeing (conspiring?) to conceal the bedbug infestation from their own exterminators, as well as present and future tenants.

Those wall plates are there for a reason. To protect children, and others in need of help, from electrical shocks.

There are laws against removing them.

Are you asking me to risk one of my family getting an electrical shock, to save you five dollars' worth of some PPM employee's time?

The wall plates, switches and power outlets are part of the premises.

I can move my possessions away from the walls. It's easier every day - we're putting all our stuff into storage, so that when we locate another place to move to, we can get out of here as fast as possible.

In the meantime ... the wall plates and the power outlets are the responsibility of the owner and property management.

That's what "property management" means. Maintenance. Someone has to do the work.

I have no interest in doing PPM's work.


In fact, it would be irresponsible for PPM not to go around and inspect every switch cover and wall plate, afterwards, to be sure that no tenants are at risk, as a result of missing screws.

Why?

Because, if this is what YOU do, when you're being PAID for your work ... what standard will the tenants - whom are NOT being paid - hold themselves to?

And so, as surely as water running downhill ... screws will be lost ... plates will be lost ... and, a few weeks later, or maybe later, during the rainy season ... someone will shock themselves.

Or a fire will be started, by arcing between a leaning lamp post and an uncovered outlet.

Please hold yourselves to a higher standard.

Please do not allow a generic handout, created by a low-bidding corporation devoted to killing insects, to displace your own natural intelligence.


Regards,

~richard

--------------000607090008070509050805--