Of course, you know, this means war. . .

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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My fiance and I are moving in together :smiley: and we hit a snag.

My Polar Bear has lived in his apartment for over 8 years. (This amazes me to no end, I typically stay in one place for 2 years and then have to move for one reason
or another. Damn black helicopters. :wink: ) When he first moved in, the building was owned by an elderly gentelman. A couple of years later, the landlord passed away. Murphy’s Law struck while the building was in inheritance limbo: the fridge in Bear’s unit died. Since its hard to live without a refrigerator, Bear bought a new one, had the old one taken away and told the owner’s son what had happened and what he did. Eventually, the apartment building was sold to a property management company.

At the beginning of this month, Bear gave notice of his move &told the Company that he would be taking the fridge and he had the paperwork to prove that it was his. Since our new place had all new appliances, we decided to sell his fridge to my former house mates. We moved this weekend, a very stressful chaotic process. Bear checked his mail for the last time. There was a letter from the Company saying they wanted to check the serial numbers on the fridge to see if it was really a new one! It took them **two fucking weeks ** to snail mail a notice. We had already taken Bear’s fridge to my friends’ house - no small feat that.

“Well, do we take the fridge back?” asks Bear.

“Hell fucking no! You have the reciepts for it, show them that.”

“They want to see a fridge and I don’t want to be taken to court,” says Bear.

A light bulb goes off in my head. My friend’s old fridge was once avacodo green, then spray painted black, the motor is on its last leg, food was held onto the door shelves with bungee cords.

“Hey Kestrel! Can we have the your old fridge?”

“Sure Mouse, but I haven’t wiped to out. I just took the food out and put it in the new one.”

“That’s great! We’ll take it was is.”

Now the Company has a fridge. Its what they wanted. I will be soooo glad when all the moving and wedding stuff is over. ;j

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But won’t they compare the serial number to whatever they have on file and see that they don’t match?

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You have a valid point, IATW, but trust me on this:

By the time the moving in/adjusting to the new digs&situation and then, finally, “The Wedding,” I just somehow don’t think it’s gonna even be a blip on their radar screen.

BTW, Mouse_Maven, what is wrong with just saying “You wanna check the serial numbers? Here’s the new address, come over and check them, asshole.” ?

And hey, congrats, hope you’ll be posting here about the 50th anniversary in…uh, about a half-century or so.

<<sniffs>>

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I gotta agree with LiveOnAPlane - just tell them they need to come to you if they want to check the serial number on the fridge.

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It’s always tricky when rental properties change hands. Unless the old owner really keeps track of what belongs there and what doesn’t, the new owner typically has to go on the tenant’s word about what was there when they moved in, and what wasn’t.

The first apartment we lived in was pretty much furnished in the kitchen and bedroom, but did not have a sofa in the living room. We purchased a (used!) sofa and desk for the living room ourselves after we moved in. Then we bought a waterbed, and stored the original bed frame and mattress in the building’s (common-use) basement. We informed the landlord of the bed change, and everyone was happy. I think the bed itself eventually went to a different tenant in the building, but we did keep a copy of the letter informing the landlord of the change and the insurance coverage, just to cover any eventualities.

After we had been there for a couple of years, the landlord decided to sell the property. After the sale had been processed, the new owners asked all of the tenants to provide a list of exactly what belonged to the property, and what belonged to the tenant, since the original landlord had not kept records on this in any way. We could have written down anything, and the new landlord would not have been able to prove it one way or the other.