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Since moving into our house here in Adelaide in December 2012 we have been overwelmed by the amount of maintenance that we have needed to do on the house. The more I look around the place and live here, the more I am convinced that the previous owners never did anything to maintain the house.
I’m not just talking about big jobs, but even small things like replacing the batteries in the smoke detectors and cleaning the filter in the range hood. I even found two dead mice in the range hood that had pretty much mummified! That really had me wondering how long it had been since they cleaned it out.
Some day I hope that we finally get on top of all the maintenance jobs on the house so that maybe we can move on to making improvements on the place and personalized it to make it our own. Right now however, after 1.5 years in the house, I feel like we are still just trying to bring the place up a level that will give us a canvas to work with.
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I was really horrified when I finally arrived at the word ‘mummified’. It must have been a terrible experience for you and family having to clean up after an obviously lazy previous owner. I have encountered a few incidences which I personally feel were very unfortunate but I think at any self storage, it is indeed a common experience to go through because you cannot control what your tenants decide to store inside their units.
EdwardThirlwall I can’t imagine the things that you would find in some of the long-term self storage lockers, yikes!