Stupid tenants

Geo-TH,In · Jan 11, 2016

Do some people get stupider with age or were they born stupid?

Posted earlier about an elderly tenant who complained her refrigerator wasn't working. She had turned the thermostat to the warmest position and her ice cream frozen. Asked her why and she said refrigerator wouldn't shut off and her electric bill increased $20. Well the place is total electric and the electric heat is on.

So I put the thermostat on normal and refrigerator works perfectly, freezer 0 degrees. A few days later, same story ice cream melted. Same problem, she had moved the thermostat all the way to the left. Again there is something wrong with refrigerator, it runs all the time. It's running up my electric bill up. Hello, it's winter.

No need to argue with old stupid people, so I took a two year old refrigerator, exactly like the one she had, I was using out of my garage and put it in her place. Put thermostat on normal. 25 hrs later, freezer was at 0, refrigerator wasn't running. I also installed a gismo to measure the hours refrigerator ran, 11:40 hrs and the kw-hrs, 1.25 kw-hrs.

I told her the refrigerator used about $0.15 worth of electricity in 25 hrs. Had the refrigerator ran 24/7 it may use $.30 a day, $9 a month.

Plan to leave the meter on refrigerator for 30 days. I know she will complain there is something wrong with this refrigerator running up her winter electric bill.

I put her refrigerator 4 year old refrigerator in my garage, absolutely nothing wrong with it. If I set controls to the right of normal, freezer will get to -10. Sometimes I just hate stupid people.

glennster · Jan 11, 2016

oh they are a silly bunch aren't they! i have a number of rentals and i see why some people are destined to never own a home. worst tenant i ever had turned out to be a hoarder. what a mess!!

ericlb · Jan 11, 2016

i think its both some get stupid as they age and their brain no longer processes information the same way, others are born stupid due to crack moms inbreeding ect the rest is our fault because we put warning labels on everything now, they manage to survive to adulthood and reproduce more of themselves, before warning labels these people would demonstrate their lack of brain power and take themselves out of the gene pool

coshoo · Jan 11, 2016

Another favorite in humid climates is mold in the bathroom- they won't turn on the exhaust fan (or crack a window) because that would lose heat. Hey, Einstein, it would also stop the mold from growing!

Stephen Newell · Jan 11, 2016

If being old causes stupid then 90% of folks in this country are old then.

Dick2 · Jan 11, 2016

We have young people living next door that are dumber than that. They don't like me so won't ask if I know what is wrong; they hire somebody that charges them a lot of money because they are easy marks. It's their problem, not mine!

w1ebb · Jan 11, 2016

The older folk could be developing Alzheimer's Disease. The younger people are stupid or brain damaged from drugs.
Many years ago when I had a CB radio, I put up an antenna. The old woman who lived next door called the law on me saying I stole the plumbing out from under her house! If the cops weren't at the front door knocking, the old neighbor lady was! This went on for months. When the cops finally stopped coming, the FCC showed up! I think the cops called them. Well, all was legal and licensed at my station. It had to get where it was affecting her family's work before they took her to a doctor. It was Alzheimer's, and they got the lady a sitter.
Old age can be tough on the he elderly.

Scott

paul · Jan 11, 2016

It just makes me shake my head. Anyhow the days I don't resemble this behavior....

Paul

Goose · Jan 11, 2016

I once had a tenant, a Deputy Sheriff to be exact, who came to my house in a panic, saying that every time his wife opened the oven door on the kitchen range she said she smelled gas.

I went to the house and confirmed what I already knew. It was an electric range. What his wife was smelling that she thought was gas, I have no idea. And I'd better not get started on the Deputy, himself. I've always said I hoped to hell he uses better judgment on the job than he does in his personal affairs.

Ultradog MN · Jan 11, 2016

All that moisture in the bathroom and house is not good for it.
You might consider rewiring the switch so that the fan comes on every time the light is on.

David G · Jan 11, 2016

I think you said she was older, could be developing dementia.

cool hand · Jan 11, 2016

A local couple was complaining about high summertime electricity bills. They wanted the AC on to cool the house, but the wife liked to have fresh outdoor breeze coming in the house, so they kept the windows open! Unbelievable!

tractorguy2 · Jan 11, 2016

When people get of they don't think correctly. When my grandmother moved off the farm. She insisted the out buildings be locked. The problem was she only locked the doors facing the road. Her logic was thieves would not go in through the back and side doors!

Dick2 · Jan 11, 2016

Maybe she was passing the gas herself when she bent over to open the oven door. Stranger things have happened.

Steve@Advance · Jan 11, 2016

I read some interesting info about drug/disease damaged chromosomes.

Seems the grandmother can pass damaged eggs to her child. According to this article, all the eggs a woman will produce are formed during development in the womb. If the mother is participating in any activity that is harmful to the developing child, or even gets sick with certain diseases, then those damaged eggs are with the child until she is of age to reproduce. Then in turn, her children can possibly suffer the consequences...

I also believe a lot of children are misdiagnosed as being ADHD, Autistic, Downs, the list goes on... But in reality the mother is in denial about alcohol and drug use during pregnancy! Even a lot prescription and over the counter drugs are now being found to cause birth defects.

Some get off to a sad start, no fault of their own!

w1ebb · Jan 11, 2016

ROFLMBO!!! That's hilarious!

Dick, the one event is natural.....its just how the information is processed!

That gets my vote forToday's Funny!

Thanks for the big laugh!

Scott

JD Seller · Jan 11, 2016

If your renting to anyone you going to be dealing with people that have little to no common sense. The young and elderly are the two worst tenants you can have. The young because they can be ignorant about anything because of poor education/drug/drinking/being young. LOL The elderly because they can get crazy ideas in their heads and you can never reason with them using facts.

My worse was the one old lady that would turn off her heat when her electric usage got to a certain point. She was smart enough to read her electric meter. When she used so much electric she shut the electric heat off. She then would turn the gas cooking stove on to keep the living room and kitchen warm. She would sleep on the couch. She froze the water pipes twice in the bathrooms before I figured out what she was doing. The thing that angered me was she was worth a lot of money. She had sold two large farms. She did not want the trouble of owning property with the up keep, so she rented. She then would call me raising cane because her water was not working. I was darn glad when she left!!!! The funny thing is the house she rented is one of the best I own as far as energy efficiency. The average electric bill is under $150 and that is for heat and AC. It has a very good heat pump system in it.

The joy of renting just keep on giving. LOL

Russ from MN · Jan 11, 2016

Maybe she has early stages of Alzheimer, don't be so critical of old people, if your lucky you will get old yourself!

ss55 · Jan 11, 2016

Some oven cleaners have a strange smell that returns whenever the oven is heated. Wipe down the inside of the oven to remove as much of the residual cleaner as possible, maybe wipe down the heating element too. I've had good luck using undiluted "Simple Green" to clean an oven, it also has a more pleasant smell.

Goose · Jan 11, 2016

As nutty as that gal was, I wouldn't bet against it.

JML755 · Jan 11, 2016

(quoted from post at 11:48:06 01/11/16) Maybe she was passing the gas herself when she bent over to open the oven door. Stranger things have happened.

Reminds me of a joke:
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[b:2b16451af9]A Short Love Story[/b:2b16451af9]

A man and a woman who had never met before, and were both married to other people, found themselves assigned to the same sleeping room on a Trans-continental train.

Though initially embarrassed and uneasy over sharing a room, they were both very tired and fell asleep quickly.....he in the upper bunk and she in the lower.

At 1:00 AM, the man leaned down and gently woke the woman saying, "Ma'am, I'm sorry to bother you, but would you be willing to reach into the closet to get me a second blanket? I'm awfully cold.
"I have a better idea," she replied "Just for tonight, let 's pretend that we're married.

"Wow! That' s a great idea!" he exclaimed.

"Good," she replied. " Get your own stinking blanket."

After a moment of silence, he farted.

NCWayne · Jan 11, 2016

Had a tenant who always complained the heat wasn't working right. I guess she thought the heat was supposed to run all the time so the room temp shown on the thermostat never dropped below the actual setting. If it did, she complained about it being too cold.

I wound up having to replace the thermostat with a different one that allowed me to add to the shown temp. This allowed it to drop enough to meet the necessary differential, but never read below the temp she considered to be warm.

Never got any more calls on the heat after that.

pete 23 · Jan 11, 2016

The world has turned. For once I tend to agree with you.

fixerupper · Jan 11, 2016

This irritates me a little. Some day we will be old and forgetful. My dad used to be very sharp minded, especially with money. But today he is 91 and the sharpness isn't there any more. Yesterday, for the zillionth time I had to go to his house to help explain the thermostat. It has an up button and a down button for temp. That's it, but he gets confused. Now on the other hand, start talking money with him and he suddenly brightens up. My step mother is 92 and not as sharp either but she still understands the thermostat. Dad doesn't think she does so he calls me. Just part of getting old.

guido · Jan 11, 2016

Hello Geo-TH,In

A piece of masking tape with ice cream. An arrow on each side. FROZEN. LIGUID!

Guido.

Paul from MI · Jan 11, 2016

My mother-in-law was always adjusting the thermostat, just couldn't leave it alone. I threatened to tear it out and replace it with an off-on switch, never did but I sure wanted to. In the 45 years I knew her she never let the facts interfere with an opinion.

Geo-TH,In · Jan 12, 2016

No waiting, I'm old and forgetful. Tenant
is STUPID. No excuses for STUPID PEOPLE.

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