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[NYC_Gal]

To a filthy apartment!

So I moved up a few floors yesterday, due to a lazy landlord. She didn't want to renew some insurance required for foreigners to live there, so my building moved me to to a unit owned by a nicer landlord. Unfortunately, the guy who'd moved out hours earlier was a SLOB. It looked as though he'd thrown poo all over the wallpaper, the cabinets were filthy, and the windows and the area behind the desk and cabinets (along the entire wall of windows) had no less than a quarter of an inch of grime with some dead leaves thrown in. The faucet in the kitchen was broken, and when I took a shower, on of the frigging shower heads fell off on me.

<<Takes a deep breath>>

This is not good for my OCD.

Anyway, I cleaned all of the cabinets and drawers, the closets, washed the floor and fridge, and unpacked my stuff. I was finished by 2am. My school's set it up for a cleaning woman to come and clean the bathroom and the "garden" behind my cabinets today. I had my Korean friend write a note asking for her to only focus on these two areas. I even provided all of the cleaning materials so that she doesn't try to save money by only using a little (stated in the note). I'd rather she use it all and have a nice bathroom.

<<shudders>>

Why don't people clean when they move out? Or live there? I've heard that they think they will clean the luck out. Come on now. It's just rude. Clearly this apartment hadn't been properly cleaned in years. There was a calendar that said Dec 2007 hanging on the wall.

Whoever moved into my apartment won the jackpot. All they had to do was clean the bathroom floor (the movers wore shoes and tracked in dirt) and sweep the floor in the apartment, as there was some dust under my bed that I missed and was too tired to do, after seeing the state of my new place.

And huzzah! Wallpaper will be done NEXT weekend, because they just HAD to move me immediately. I love that I have to stay in next Saturday to supervise and make sure nothing is ruined/goes missing. Lovely.

Oh, and my internet company can't come and change it over to my new unit until Wednesday. YAY!

Okay. Vent over...

[chellovek]

*pat pat*

[crescent]

The landlord is expected to have apartments cleaned for new tenants. Outgoing tenants don't clean.

[thomas pars]

Hire a Filipino.

[Forward Observer]

[NYC_Gal]

The cleaning lady's here now, and doing a decent job of it, and we're chatting in Korean. Granted, I'm using my dictionary a lot, but it's nice.

Apparently the management can only fix one of the two shower heads, because the company that makes the shower went out of business. I complained that they should just get a new shower installed, but they won't budge. Those 6 nipple-shower-thingies had better work when I try them tonight. (It's a weird shower with one detachable head [which they just fixed], one fixed one [which isn't there because it FELL OFF on me last night], and 6 that I guess are positioned like dog nipples�2 rows of 3�and shoot straight out). I didn't try that feature, so if they work I won't gripe about the one shower head that is obseoyo. <<Grinds teeth>>

Then the management guy came in with a bill for me to pay for my final rent for my old apartment. It was nearly double what I usually pay, so I whipped out my receipt for last month's rent, as proof that I only owed 20 days, and not 50. He wanted to keep it.

"ANEEYO! NEH COPY!" <<and clutches paper>>

He wrote in his pad that I'd paid and I only owe for the first 20 days now. So organized, this outfit.

ARGH!!!!!

Moving is rough enough without having to deal with this BS.

I'm "borrowing" some wifi right now and listening to Pink Floyd to keep calm. And venting here

[nomad-ish]

yeah, in that case i think the best thing is to just hire a cleaning lady. if that happened to me that's what i'd be doing.

actually, i'd love to hire a cleaning lady right now, but while it defies logic, i'm too embarrassed cause my place is such a mess. at least you can blame yours on the last tenant!

[NYC_Gal]

I don't mind cleaning my place if it's my own mess, but another person's filth build up is not cool. After she goes, I'm still going to wipe everything down with anti-bacterial solution and pour bleach all over the bathroom floor, but this woman is doing a good job. I gave her some "Arabian gochujang" (zachug: a spicy hot pepper paste) and she liked it, and a Starbucks Frap that I picked up for her before coming home, because I know that tipping isn't okay here, and she's really sweet. I wonder if I could set up something where she could clean my bathroom every couple of weeks...

Now I just need my internet hooked up and my wallpaper done. I love how I'll have to clean again after they paper my place, but at least it will be dust and paste, rather than years of filth.

[ThingsComeAround]

so... did you actually move to the East side?

'cause we all know the Wess Syde is da bess syde!

[NYC_Gal]

Of my building, yes

I prefer the Upper West Side to the UES of NYC anyday. Zabars. Riverside Park. Lincoln Center. The list goes on.

Now the East Village is cool, but that's downtown. Both areas were great places to live, though. If I move back to NYC, I'd go back to the UWS.

[moosehead]

oh do they abbreviate it now?

real new yorkers scorn the upper west side for its boredom. said to be nothing more than just another bedroom community, you know

but what do I know? I lived uptown

[NYC_Gal]

[Alphabet_Stew]

the East-side is cooler (the sun sets in the west, so on the west-side you have the sun shining on your apartment all afternoon).

East-side is cooler in the afternoon (good for summer) and warmer in the morning (good for winter).

[NYC_Gal]

[Captain Von Sillypants]

GROUP 1
DUMBO= down under the manhattan bridge overpass
Tribeca= triangle below canal street
SoHo= south of houston street
SoHa= south harlem
NoHo= north of houston street

GROUP 2
LES= lower east side
CPS= central park south
CPW= central park west
UWS= upper west side
UES= upper east side

Group 2= commonly written as abbreviations, but the full name is always spoken. You would not say CPS, but would say Central Park South.

So moose, you're a real new yawker? Ever read a newspaper?