The Money Pit

This homeownership is getting old.  Don't get me wrong I love my house.  I just don't like paying for it and all the things that break all the time.  I don't remember the other house having so many things break so often and so close together but we were only there 5 years and we have been here almost 7.  Everything here has broken  after the 5 year warranty of course so we have had to pay full price for everything plus the service calls for the repairman to come out.  We are on a first name basis with our repairman from the Boulevard.  His name is Brent and he has visited us  numerous times in the last year and a half.  The lastest repair/replace in a 18 month long history of repairs was the water heater and the dryer-again.  When we got back from California I noticed that the podium thing that the waterheater sits on looked wet.  On closer inspection I noticed the paint was bubbling  and that down on the ground the cement was looking wet.  We called a plumber Monday morning but did not hear back from them so we called another one on Tuesday who came within 2 hours.  He gave me the quote and said that he could come back later that afternoon and replace it.  He did and $700 later plus a big mess where we had to rip out the top of the podium thing that the water heater sat on we were good to go.  Don left for Montana on Wednesday and the dryer stopped working on Thursday.  Granted, the poor thing had ran non-stop for 4 days plus even though it had a 5 day break while we were in California, it had run nonstop for a week while we had company in town for all the graduation festivities.  So since December of 2009 here the list of what we have fixed/replaced in the house.

the dryer

the garage door

the big screen TV

the ice maker-twice

the fridge door

the bottom double oven

the microwave door

the disposal

the cooktop

the fridge door

the water heater

the dryer-a different part

the shower door liner thing-yet to be replaced

and now atleast 3 window screens that Cayden has poked holes in-yet to be replaced

Oh and not to mention atleast 2 car windshields and the mess the Altima now is that we have not even priced out yet.