Mouse nightmare
Last night I had a nightmare that there were mice running up and down the walls of my bedroom. Actually, I'm not sure I should really call it a nightmare since I wasn't terrified by what I saw but it was still disturbing, nonetheless.
This evening, I was sitting in my garage smoking when a mouse came running in my direction from somewhere under my car. When I jumped out of the way, it bolted another direction into a maze of boxes stacked in the garage.
Now I'm wondering whether or not my nightmare was actually a nightmare or something I saw in a sleepy haze and remembered as a dream. I'm guessing it was some mixture of both since I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have the amount of mice on my walls that I remember from the nightmare yet I can't think of any other reason - other than having seen a mouse in my room - that I would've had that dream.
To be sure, I haven't seen a rodent of any sort in any place I've lived since I was in Omaha and had a cat that would kill mice and bring their headless carcasses into the living room for me to see. It's just not something that's been a part of my regular tenant experience up until now.
To make matters worse, the door between my garage and the rest of the house doesn't latch when I close it. On days when there's a decent breeze, the door blows open and it was open tonight when I came home. Easy access for the mice.
I dropped off my rent check yesterday at the management company and asked why they hadn't been out here yet to fix any of the things that were supposed to be fixed before I moved in. I let them off the hook with a few things - like the door not staying shut - with the promise that it would be taken care of within a week. It has been a month and half now and they haven't done one thing they promised. The maintenance coordinator said she'd have someone out right away, but as of 8:30pm when I'm writing this, I haven't heard anything.
To anyone who might know about these things: Do I have any sort of recourse for them not fixing things in an appropriate amount of time? I told them they had until the 15th before I had the work done myself and billed them for it. I'm not really sure what to do, other than that.
This evening, I was sitting in my garage smoking when a mouse came running in my direction from somewhere under my car. When I jumped out of the way, it bolted another direction into a maze of boxes stacked in the garage.
Now I'm wondering whether or not my nightmare was actually a nightmare or something I saw in a sleepy haze and remembered as a dream. I'm guessing it was some mixture of both since I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have the amount of mice on my walls that I remember from the nightmare yet I can't think of any other reason - other than having seen a mouse in my room - that I would've had that dream.
To be sure, I haven't seen a rodent of any sort in any place I've lived since I was in Omaha and had a cat that would kill mice and bring their headless carcasses into the living room for me to see. It's just not something that's been a part of my regular tenant experience up until now.
To make matters worse, the door between my garage and the rest of the house doesn't latch when I close it. On days when there's a decent breeze, the door blows open and it was open tonight when I came home. Easy access for the mice.
I dropped off my rent check yesterday at the management company and asked why they hadn't been out here yet to fix any of the things that were supposed to be fixed before I moved in. I let them off the hook with a few things - like the door not staying shut - with the promise that it would be taken care of within a week. It has been a month and half now and they haven't done one thing they promised. The maintenance coordinator said she'd have someone out right away, but as of 8:30pm when I'm writing this, I haven't heard anything.
To anyone who might know about these things: Do I have any sort of recourse for them not fixing things in an appropriate amount of time? I told them they had until the 15th before I had the work done myself and billed them for it. I'm not really sure what to do, other than that.
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