Oh Kathy I am sorry about your frustrations and will pray for peace and
grace and strength.


Lelia Struve email [log in to unmask] msn [log in to unmask]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathy Du Bois" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 7:46 AM
Subject: Housing progress, NOT!


> Hi Guys,
>         Well, Greg had a talk with the forman yesterday and the foreman
> estemates that it will be another eight weeks before this house is
> finished.  I could have choked.  Anyway, if that is true, that will
> extend the construction of this house at least six weeks beyond the
> ninety days that the contract stipulated.  The crew is putting in four
> ten hour days a week, but some days, like yesterday, the crew is reduced
> to two or three guys because they are working on seven other houses at
> the same time.  I'm frustrated because, no only will that allow our
> mobile home to depreciate another year, but the chances of selling before
> next summer are slim.  Not to mention the difficulties of moving a mobile
> home in, possibly poor weather conditions.  We are talking November in
> Maine.  Another frustration is that the skirting has already been removed
> in preparation for moving it so that our insoluation is way down and
> heating this place is really going to be a real trip while we wait.
> Anyway, I've put a call into the  person  heading up this project, but
> I'm not sure that there is much we can do.    One thing that really
> frustrated us yesterday is that the Plumber stopped by to see if he could
> do his work this weekend.  Remember the bathtub?  It was in the back of
> his truck!  Anyway, the guys told him that the house wouldn't be ready
> for his services before next week.  They have to frame in the walls
> before he can work.  I almost wish that they had come in to work today to
> frame in the walls and had taken off Monday instead, so that the plumber
> could have done his thing this weekend as he had planned, but then, I
> wasn't consulted.
> .  We don't want to get too aggressive in case they drag their feet even
> more.  We are truly seeking for the Christian way of handling our rights
> and our disappointments.  Please keep our situation in your prayers.
> Kathy
>
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