Monday, March 2, 2009

I HATE MY HOUSE!

Luckily our lease is up in May, because we can't stand to live here anymore! The house that we are renting is in a very nice neighborhood, it's big, has a nice yard, from looking at it at first glance it looks nice, and it is only 20 years old. Well, when we first moved in we noticed that it still had the original carpet and our neighbor next door informed us that the old woman who owned the home had a dog that "did a number on the carpets" and boy does it show. There are stains everywhere even after having the carpet steamed cleaned numerous times. Then we noticed we had little termite friends in a wall in the kitchen and in a kitchen droor that Jake spot treated himself, but we know they are in the exterior walls because everytime it rains all of their poop is washed onto the windows and patio. Then the stove was rusted and leaking and "dangerous to use" and it took months before our landlord replaced it. Don't get me wrong this is a nice home and would continue to be if the previous owner and the current owner (our jerky landlord) would take care of it. Anyway, the list goes on and on but here is the latest that just tops it all off...

Last week I started smelling something rotten in our computer room/den. It was coming from around the vent and we figured there had to be something dead rotting up there. We figured it would decompose with time and hopefully sooner than later the smell would go away. Well this morning I woke up and came to use the computer and noticed little white and black things on the carpet below the vent and as I looked closer I realized they were maggots and they were everywhere. UUUGGGHHHH! It was absolutely disgusting. They were falling out of the vent, from the attic, from wherever this dead thing was. I got all of the things I could lift out of the room and vacuumed like a mad woman and they still kept showing up. So I called Jake and he called the landlord and once again he was kind of a jerk and from the sound of it rudely told Jake that it is not his problem it is ours. Double UUUGGGGHHHH! Well we needed this thing out of our house regardless so I made some phone calls and had exterminators come and low and behold they found a rotting rat covered in maggots. They said they could tell they were getting close because the smell became more and more pungent (tell me about it I could smell it for days!). Anyway they said unfortunately there are some maggots left over that they could not get which sucks but in a few days they will turn into flies and surprisingly I can't wait because I would rather have flies than maggots. What do you know a maggot just fell out of the vent!

I know you can't always prevent things like this from happening and it is no one's fault but I still HATE THIS HOUSE!

12 comments:

Leslie said...

Ugh! Blecht! Retch!

Grammies Inn said...

Whit, I am so so sorry! Can't even imagine the grossness of maggots falling from a vent. Hope all will be better soon, good luck with a new house hunt.

CC said...

i just threw up

WillandTara said...

Ohhhh My Gosh Whit, Disgusting...I cant handle bugs in any house. I bet you are excited to move. I am excited for you. I would be having nightmares in my sleep about bugs in my sheets.

WillandTara said...

where are you moving to? get the
out of there

Will

Ross, Toby and Holden said...

At least you weren't sitting under the vent. Imagine getting that out of your hair! hahahaha

CC said...

hahahahhahah ross is funny

Hilary said...

yech! maggots are soooo gross! and what the heck does termite poop look like?

Whit and Jake said...

Their poop looks like grains of sand- black or brownish. It's gross when you know that's what all that stuff is on your windows and patio!

Ash said...

Ross is nasty. And like Mercedes is just threw up a little in my mouth!:) Happy moving to you!! I think I would buy stock in Raid!

Becky said...

Even though I heard all about this before the post, I just have to giggle at the thought of Whit dealing with this! And I thought it was funny when I tried to imagine her unloading dead rats and resetting the traps at the Donovans! The feminine looks are deceiving, she has grit!

Kaitlyn Devin and Grace said...

I was shuddering uncontrollably the whole time i read your post. that reminds me of a really nasty story i have kinda like that, I think I'll tell it on my blog, so if anyone wants to be grossed out more, check it out :)