My tenant called, apparently the water company had left a tag on the door that said to get in touch with them. Since she pays her own water bill and it's in her name, she rang them up. They proceed to tell her the they have been trying to access the water meter in the house for 7 years!
7 YEARS...yeah, right. My tenant has lived there for over a year and shot that right down, since they tried to tell her that they had been there this past April. "No," she politely told them, "they hadn't been there". It's interesting too, because they came and replaced the water meter about *5* years ago. They told her that they'd been prorating the bills.....really....now if they've been prorating for for the last 7 years, then how did they give the last tenant a final bill?? And they had the nerve to insult my tenant about the ethnicity of her name, nice. Anyway, the post over at Dizzy Girl's about her problems with the electric compnay reminded me of this, what ever happened to the days of utilities being service oriented.