My life is like a comedy club.... I just can't figure out if I'm on the stage or in the audience..... ~~Keeper~~
Never seem to get in a place that I belong
Have a great day and a great week. 
What Are The Chances?
First let me say we have rentals and currently we are working on our double. The double is a large place each side having about 1300 sq ft plus a basement. So even though it is in good shape there were a lot of things that needed upgrading. The house was built in 1929 so it is solid as a rock. Over the years it has just sat with only an occassional renter (must have at least one renter to maintain your insurance). About 13 months ago we decided to move into one side and rehab the place to make it more desireable to live in. One of the most important things we wanted to correct was the electric. The house still had fuse boxes so we decided to upgrade. After getting some quotes we decided on this one electrician, who was in need of work.
He was to pull the permits (one for each side) and we were to buy the supplies. To cut a long story short, he was working hard and making great progress, however, as he was finishing we discovered he couldn't pull the permits. OK, now we have the work done (illegal because of no permit). We thought we would lay low until we could find an electrician who would get us a permit, so we could have it inspected etc, etc.
What are the chances the person living caddy corner to us, across the street with his house facing another street, would cut down a hugh tree from his yard, hit the electric lines and our house would be the only house where the electric lines were ripped totally out of the house? This means the electric company had to come out to fix the down lines and of course look at our house.
When DP&L (electric company) walked up to our house the first thing out of his mouth was, "this house hasn't been inspected." (thank God he didn't ask to see the permit) then he went on to say he should turn it off but he would give us five working days to get in touch with them. Anyway, three hours later he had attached the electric back to our house, and the man across the street now has a bill of 5000.00. Thats right he has to pay for three trucks, three men and all the work done on our house plus a fine.
With only two days left we did find someone to pull the permits for us (and we paid him well to do it). Now we can get our inspections and move on, however, the man with the trees still has one tree left to take down and yesterday he was out there sizing up the job..... I guess he hasn't received DP&L's bill yet.
I'm glad you all are getting the permit thing sorted out. Thank goodness the owner of the tree is responsible for the costs of repairing your electric stuff.
Dee, I believe someone was looking down on us. With everything that went wrong, we still came out ok. I am blessed. :)
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