"Condo Care"...

Living in a condo community has its benefits. When there is repair work to be done, someone else (the management company) is responsible for making that happen. Of course, the homeowners still have to live with the activity!








This year's major project at Longwood Greens, following the termite tenting in the spring, has been repairing and/or replacing the wood trim that is such a big part of the Spanish style architecture. Once all the damaged wood is fixed, the exterior walls are power washed from roof to ground, and then all trim is painted. The very hard-working crew of guys, who started in the community in early August, made their way to our building over the past week or so, and they've seemed like little ants, crawling all over our unit. (Or should I say big, noisy ants?) It's been a bit nerve-wracking at times, and the racket and presence of strangers outside upstairs windows, on the roof, on the balcony, and going in and out of the patio has been hard on all of us, especially poor Sassy, who gets particularly stressed by loud noises. (Saws-alls are definitely not her friend!) Needless to say, we're glad that much of the work on our unit is done - we've only got two more sets of workers to come through, those that will patch the repairable wood with filler, and then the guy with the paint spray gun. We just hope that someone remembers to put our gutter back up on the balcony!