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Showing posts with label damage. Show all posts
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
All State Specialty Contracting, parental alienation, and kids
Well, I have no idea if the kids will actually move here or not. They are. They aren't. They are. They aren't. They "have no help there". They "can't make it there". They're "staying". And me? I'm torn. Sure, I'd like them here. Sure, I'd like Little Bit closer. Yes, I'd love them to be closer so that I know that they get to eat every night. Her mom will take her younger brother out to eat and ignore the rest of the house. And when they buy food, her brothers will polish it off in 2 days and then they're back to scenario one. I sent them home with Little Man's baby fridge out of his bedroom (he volunteered to loan it) and enough groceries to hide in it for the 2 of them to eat for a week till next payday. If they're smart, then they'll buy meals from week to week and keep it hidden in their fridge. Although, I don't know that they're smart enough to plan things out like that. I'm going to work with Ruth on it though if they don't move this way. Things like planning meals and shopping on a budget. It shouldn't be much for the 2 of them to eat if they shop smart. They might not be eating steak, but they'll at least be eating. And that's more than they've managed here and there in the past. And I don't quite get it but then like I said, her mom is a busy woman and she's out and about and doing things. She works long hours and goes out when she's not working. She's actively dating too. And she eats out almost every night. But, me? I couldn't let anyone go hungry - let alone kids living in my house no matter how old they are or what choices they made. And yes, they have to learn to budget and shop but someone needs to show them and give them tips on how to live on a budget. And as her mom makes the kind of money that the kids won't see for years and years, a tight budget is not something that her mom has had to deal with. I'm sure her mom just doesn't think about it. When you're making more than $30/hour, getting $500/month in child support and living in a $900/month apartment and another couple is paying you $800/month in rent to live in one bedroom, tight budget is not part of your vocabulary. And since I haven't seen any "extra" money in my budget in more years than I can count- this is something that I can teach the kids. And do it well.
On other notes, NK (new kid) got a great birthday present. He found his dad. I will say here that they more I have to "deal" with the fall-out from his mom. The more aggravated I am with this woman. I read about parental alienation. I hear about crazy women not doing right by their kids or their dads. I am not one of those women. I have worked desperately to keep the lines of communication open with SD's family. Even though not one of them has made so much as minimal effort to reciprocate. NK's mom told him that he dad "didn't want to be a part of his life" The his dad had "sent back the pictures that she sent him". That he "didn't pay child support". For whatever reason, this kid has such a good heart that he still wanted to meet the man that he'd never seen. And folks, I fault dad for this too. He should have fought harder. I watch all the court battles you ladies go thru and I know that he could have gotten something. If not all that he wanted, at least something. But, by his own words, he waited for the kids to go looking for him. So, NK's girlfriend found some numbers that might be his dads. He was too afraid to call them. Afraid of what the reaction would be. So, I picked up the phone and started calling numbers. And I found him. Well, I got his girlfriend who asked me to call back the next day as he was already sleeping. Yeah, bad me. I called at 10:30 at night. So sorry. Wasn't looking at the time, just jumped on that horse and rode with it. So, the next night, I called back and spoke with the dad. Dad was thrilled to hear from me and wanted to talk to the son. Dad has been paying $350/month in child support on a child that got kicked out of the house a month ago. Now, dad doesn't mind paying support. But, he wants the support to go to his son. Its not his ex-wife's pleasure money. And this stuff makes me madder than I can say on this blog. Women like her make us all look bad. Its why my ex throws a fit about giving "me" his money. So, dad asked NK yesterday for his mom's number. Dad already paid child support for Oct and the kid hasn't lived with mom in Oct. So, dad thinks that mom owes the kid the money. So, NK asked me if he did right in giving his dad the number. And he's so worried that he did something wrong. I told him that he didn't do anything wrong. His dad is right. That money is for him and what he needs. She threw him out so she is not entitled to any of that money anymore unless some of it is for back support. Dad did call him on his actual birthday yesterday. We didn't make the initial contact with dad till Friday night so there would have been no way for dad to get a card or anything here even if he wanted to. But a phone call is more than my kids have ever gotten. Dad wants to see him. Don't know if he's going to go to his dad's house (4 hours away) or if dad is going to come here to see him but they do want to see each other. They want to meet which is a positive. I would think that dad would have to come here at this point as NK's truck is broke down in my driveway. He has a leak in his radiator and the transmission is slipping. If mom gave him the child support due to him, he could fix his radiator at least. I'm sure the transmission is going to cost him around a grand. But the truck is drivable with the transmission issue. It still wouldn't make the 4 hour drive to dad's but it would get him to work and around town here. Anyhow, I will end this part of my post by saying that I am extremely disgusted with this child's mom if even 10% of what I've heard is true.
Well, back to fixing things that the movers destroyed. I will say that I have spent no less than an hour a day for the last 3 months working on the damage that they did. They cut my carpet 14 inches from the seam line. Why? you might ask? Don't ask me. Mr. Wayne Gilliland has not answered a phone message in months. He has refused to make good on the damages. All State Specialty is obviously a business doomed to end up in court. Vix and Cal are filing suit on him. We have been putting all the paperwork together that we need for the court case. They have been consulting with an attorney. The sad part is, all of his insurance and bond information is listed in his wife's name so even though this lady has had nothing to do with all of the damages, she will be listed in the lawsuit with her husband. Folks, I'm not talking a few hundred dollars here. I'm talking more money in damages than they charged us for the job. When they cut the carpet 14 inches from the seam line, they destroyed the padding underneath. They shredded the carpet. It is unfixable. Well, it is fixable, but at almost the cost of replacing the carpet. Additionally, they damaged the carpet with their work boots doing the job by tracking wet mud and clay all over the house. People were too lazy to lay plastic down or something. In 3 places, they put the house back together with the carpet between the 2 halves of the house. They shredded the carpet in the back bedroom too. The damage to the ceiling is so extensive that the whole ceiling will have to be scraped, re-textured, and the re-painted. The damage done to the ramp by cutting the 4x4's with a chainsaw is over a grand. The contractor to fix the dry-wall damage that they claimed to fix and never did is going to cost $45/sheet for the contractor to do it. There's 6 sheets that are damaged beyond repair. The tub surround that they broke is over $250 to have installed. It's $89 service call per appliance just to have them come look at the damage to the stove and fridge. That's not counting the actual repairs. They damaged the shed and I am still waiting on the estimate to that. Do you know how this fly-by-night company damaged my shed? Because they took a pick-up truck and rammed the back of it to get it up onto the trailer. Great group of people right? We're waiting on the rest of the estimates and then Vix and Cal are filing suit. Right now, it's looking to be right around 10 thousand dollars in damages. And do any of you have any idea how much I hate the fact that this guy misrepresented himself and his company so much and that he's forcing us to go this route. All we wanted was fair treatment and the house in the same shape that it was in before they started. Just put it back together like it was in a different location. That's what we paid him for.
Well, back to work ~ hope y'all have a great day!
Thursday, July 30, 2009
All State Specialty Contracting Damage photos
These are all the photos of the damage caused by All State Specialty Contracting. Wayne Gilliland is the owner of the company. Feel free to look at what I've had to deal with for the last 7 weeks now. I have photos up of the original damage and then after 6 weeks when they came to "fix" it and the job they did or rather didn't do. It's horrid! The man and his crew are unprofessional and shouldn't be allowed to continue to do business.
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