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[pauraque_bk]

So, the apartment above ours can never seem to keep people in it for more than a few months (haunted? cursed?) and every time people move out, the power gets turned off and the hard-wired carbon monoxide detector up there starts very usefully making the "low power" beep every few seconds. The "new" people just moved out after six months, so it happened again last night. I should have really remembered to remind the landlord about it since it's the third or fourth time since we've lived here, though he should have remembered too.

Of course it never starts in like, the middle of the afternoon, when we could just call the landlord and he'd pop by and fix it. It started last night at almost midnight. So instead of trying to sleep with this horribly piercing noise going off every ten seconds, we went and checked into the hotel a few blocks away. A sort of expensive solution to the problem, but I think it was worth paying to avoid the stress; it's not every problem you can actually solve by throwing money at it, but in this case it worked. And once we got there it was actually sort of fun to just randomly be staying in a hotel. It's not like we do it all the time, and when the night manager heard why we were there, he gave us a modest discount. ♥

In the morning we called the landlord and he came and fixed it. Next time I WILL remember to remind him about it, because it's really gotten ridiculous.

Of course, now that I'm home, the neighbors chose this moment to do their weed-whacking, but that's not nearly as annoying or as potentially indefinite. :P

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Comments

[akatnamedeaster.livejournal.com]

Oh man, you have my sympathies. For some reason the ones in our complex go off when there's high humidity, which means, every other day in summer. Extremely annoying, especially in a 210 apartment complex. :P

[alchemine.livejournal.com]

My late husband and I stayed in a hotel like that once when the bathroom ceiling collapsed. We had another bathroom we could have used, but the stench of old rotting insulation was unbearable! The weird part was that we actually had some trouble getting a room because we were local residents - the first place we tried said they had a policy against locals, because I guess they had a problem with teenagers renting a room for the night and partying/trashing it. At the time we were a couple in our 30s, with our six-year-old child standing right there holding her teddy bear, so you would think they might have realized that wasn't what we were planning to do, but no.

[thimble-kiss.livejournal.com]

Ack, that's torture! Good thing you had a solution close at hand, even if it was an expensive one — lovely of the night manager to give a discount, though. :) Besides, staying at a hotel is sort of an excellent adventure when you don't do it that often!