New Kitty

The previous jerks who used to own our house left their cats behind, and from what our neighbors tell us, they were locked in the garage for a number of days in high heats. I'm very grateful we didn't buy a house with kitty corpses....

We found their kitty 'Bell' first. She's very sweet and tolerant so we'll probably be keeping her. We've renamed her "Berty". Very funny when people think our kids are talking about a birdie in the house, and not a cat.

The other cat "Sweetie" doensn't like Berty at all and she has the most annoying meow. She'll sit under our windows crying for someone, then when you come outside she runs away, only to come back and do it again. Annoying.

We were very fortunate this morning and were able to schedule someone to come clean the carpets and have someone change the many locks.

We started calling carpet cleaning places and the first guy we spoke to was amazing! He was super knowledgeable and was telling us how to help treat some of our problem areas before we ever even told him we wanted to hire him. To add to he awesomeness, he was the owner and took our call while out having coffee with his wife. It was the kind of business etiquette Cliff uses. We hired him for both houses without even calling anyone else. I'm so grateful too, he did an AMAZING job! The carpets were so disgusting I wanted nothing to do with them and although some areas are obviously still grey from the heavy traffic and the fact that the owners NEVER seemed to vacuum, they are sterile, odorless, and such a huge improvement!

One of the 'before' pictures

I was also able to get someone from Pop-a-Lock to come re-key the house. They did the duplex we were in (took 2 and a half hours for 3 locks, and 1 of them seriously broke a few months later) so I gave them a call. Turns out you get a referral discount and the guy that came this time did all 8 locks in about 40 minutes. He was really great too. I like it when people who come to work on/in/at your house have good personalities.

It was such a treat to see the Advanced Carpet Cleaning truck in my driveway, and the Pop-a-Lock in front of my house. Had I not been so crazy busy I might have taken a picture.

Bert, Cliff, and I chose an area to clean and spent the next 3 hours working on it. Bert made our wash room spotless (amazing people actually cleaned stuff in such filth), I scrubbed the downstairs bathroom and it still looked foul, and Cliff scrubbed the outside and behind the stove and it was still greasy. We worked really hard, it didn't seem fair to accomplish so little.