Last week I posted about a current survey I'm working on for a church client. There's a renter on the property and she is less than amicable to interlopers and has resisted us every step of the way. The keypad gate entry code has been changed several times to impede our access. I think we finally got that hammered out; there is a default "911" code to allow access.
Now there are bright shiny new padlocks and chain on almost everyone of the (almost a dozen) internal gates within the property. I left a message with my client and told him if it was ok with him I would be lopping off the locks with a chain cutter today when we arrived..... "Get back with me as soon as you can and have a nice day." IF I have to cut them off today I'm going to leave them all in a pile by her mailbox.
And to top it all off I had an employee take a tumble down a creek bank and screwed up his knee. One visit to the ER. Employee is recovering. The rover and DC survived with a few scratches.
The job that keeps on giving...
Hey, if it was easy, nobody would pay us to do it.
Those words, or some similar, were shared with me about 40 years ago when I was griping about some aspect of whatever work I was doing at the time. They stuck with me. It takes much more than education, both formal and school of hard knocks, to do what we do. Sometimes it requires the patience of Job(sorry for the Biblical reference). Sometimes it takes the stamina and strength of Samson (there I go again). Sometimes it requires a restraining order to keep you from doing to someone exactly what they need to have done to them.
I have a job where the family members are going to take a certain member of the family on a special trip far from our job site on the day we have scheduled to arrive.
Ahh bolt cutters we call ours the Master Key to the City.
Paden, it almost sounds like it's time for this nonsense to stop. You said before you were going to have papers in hand soon that should give insight into more of this renters rights about the property. Have you gotten those? It is starting to sound like it is time for a meeting between you, the church leaders and the renter, all in her front yard, papers in hand, to clearly discuss what is happening.
Maybe you could acquire that "thing" in the second picture posted yesterday, give it to her, and tell her what she can go do for the rest of the day.:scream::scream::scream::scream::scream:
Maybe cut the locks off and switch them with identical ones that you have the key to and she doesn't? Then act like nothing happened.
You devious devil. Great thinking.
Have not heard from their attorney concerning the title commitment. Did talk to the client a little bit ago and he tells me she has unlocked the gates. He also related she felt the need to lock everything up because "there's been some theft in the area". This lady takes the cake for "passive-aggressive". She'll say one thing then turn around and drop a bomb on you when you're not looking. I do carry a good amount of padlocks in the truck. Putting my own on there might be an option...;)
For a moment I thought we were working on the same job until you mentioned gates and everything after.
Woman called me 8 months ago to survey her acre and the price was too much and she built a barrier, not actually a fence, just a lot of stuff along a line.
Now church next door (woman's house was parsonage and sold off) was bought by a motorcycle club that hold church there and the woman is not liking it at all and is totally harassing them at every meeting from noise to the kids playing outdoors.
Plan is to go there tomorrow and not looking forward to this dispute.
So many comments come to mind, but none of them are nice, well, they all involve name calling, so I guess I wont say anything. I had a lady once try to tell my child to play more quietly on a playground at a hotel, it was interrupting her sunning. Have I mentioned I am not a people person if they are not paying clients?
A Harris, post: 389105, member: 81 wrote: ..Now church next door (woman's house was parsonage and sold off) was bought by a motorcycle club that hold church there and the woman is not liking it at all and is totally harassing them at every meeting from noise to the kids playing outdoors..
I thought Oklahoma had a patent on the Christian MC scene...I guess not. Such fine hymn classics like "Dropkick me Jesus Through the Goal Posts of Life" and the David Allan Coe-ish "Jesus Rode a Harley" are sure to calm the neighbor's resentment.
99.99% of people think Harleys and their riders are obnoxious.
Don't just fire it up and drive away at 8pm in the hotel parking lot, no you have to goose the throttle 2000 times over a 5 minute period.
The neighbor may have a legitimate complaint.
Dave Karoly, post: 389116, member: 94 wrote:
Don't just fire it up and drive away at 8pm in the hotel parking lot, no you have to goose the throttle 2000 times over a 5 minute period.
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That's the only way to keep them running.
Jones, post: 389118, member: 10458 wrote: That's the only way to keep them running.
Another way is to put it in gear and drive away.
Since there are usually a minimum of fifty of them, maybe drive to some remote wide spot and form up there.
Dave Karoly, post: 389116, member: 94 wrote: ..The neighbor may have a legitimate complaint...
Probably. But if it's a church, their Constitutional right to rev their bikes for worship is probably covered under the First Amendment. 😉
paden cash, post: 389120, member: 20 wrote: Probably. But if it's a church, their Constitutional right to rev their bikes for worship is probably covered under the First Amendment. 😉
Our Calif HD riders are mostly lawyers, wanna be bikers.
A fleet of HDs at an expensive hotel are not being driven by the Hells Angels. The hotel likes the business, I get that part, but Jesus it's a hotel, believe it or not people sleep here. The other pet peeve is the 4am door slammers. You didn't close the door properly if you didn't shake the entire building.
Dave Karoly, post: 389121, member: 94 wrote: A fleet of HDs at an expensive hotel are not being driven by the Hells Angels..
Actually the Angels probably own the expensive hotel...;)
Famous Sonny Barger (controversial past president of the HA) quote: "I hate Harleys. That was the big mistake we made back in the early '70s by not getting on the wagon with the better engineered and more dependable Japanese bikes."
paden cash, post: 389122, member: 20 wrote: Actually the Angels probably own the expensive hotel...;)
Famous Sonny Barger (controversial past president of the HA) quote: "I hate Harleys. That was the big mistake we made back in the early '70s by not getting on the wagon with the better engineered and more dependable Japanese bikes."
Most hotels here are owned by wealthy Indians (as in the Ghandi type Indians).
Dave Karoly, post: 389125, member: 94 wrote: Most hotels here are owned by wealthy Indians (as in the Ghandi type Indians).
Oh yeah, the Patel family; very successful and tenacious merchants, for sure. Nowadays there are almost as many Patel listings in the phone book as there are Garcia in the San Antonio phone book.
This motorcycle church is located along a 4lane major truck route at an intersection where log trucks and long haulers frequent and with all the local offroad mudders crossing the highway the Harley noise is only a part of the decibels echoing off her walls.
