Cool as a cucumber, but poorer
'Tis truly the "dog days" of summer, seeing as to how the Gentleman Friend and I journeyed to Costco for the latest and greatest in home air conditioning technology. We walked away with this $99 beauty: the Daewoo DWC-055RL!
Installation required the drilling of two screws into the window sash, a lease-violatin' procedure I will liken to nailing my landlady to a cross. When the damage to her precious non-Andersen windows was complete, the sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, and the Manor split in two from east to west. A coincidence, for sure.
P.S. The stunning photo above was taken with my new phone. It's a good thing that money grows on trees!
Comments
Say goodbye to your deposit. I'm sure she already wrote down every violation and damage.
Interesting you get the air conditionaire on the nicest day in DC. It is always best to be prepared instead of trying to live in apartment that becomes as hot as aTurkish Prision.
Posted by: DCMASSHOLE | June 4, 2006 11:11 PM
"Deposits" are often a joke, anyway...sort of like a balloon payment at the end of a mortgage. Most people I know don't even plan to get them back...just see them as the cost of doing business, especially in some of the more aggressive housing markets in this faded republic (Manhattan, Boston, San Francisco). I've gotten deposits back probably 50% of the time since first running screaming from my parents' home 20 years ago.
At least you got the coolest cellphone to go along with the coolest apt! :-)
Posted by: JAC | June 5, 2006 11:51 AM
We have free air conditioning in San Francisco. We just open the window (sans screens), and cool air pours in. It's pretty cheap.
About once or twice a year, our free A/C fails and it's over 100 degrees, but that only lasts a few days.
Posted by: Chad | June 5, 2006 12:25 PM
She'll know you've been bad the first time you turn the thing on and every light in the building dims.
As for money growing on trees, you'll need that alternative source of cash when the electric bill comes in.
It may have been cheaper just to sweat it out... so to speak.
Posted by: Tim | June 5, 2006 12:34 PM
so many cynics... people, dc is a sweltering hole and a/c is needed. i am sure your landlord will just appreciate the ugly box hanging out of the window just as much as forgoing the damage to the window. i wouldn't worry about it. just enjoy the cool summer nights....
Posted by: RW | June 5, 2006 01:42 PM
RW's right: you NEED air conditioning in DC. Which is more expensive: the electric bill or getting fired because your sweaty ass has been up all night, thus making you the biggest bitch ever?
BTW, Toby, could I get a cutting off of your money tree? It'd be really handy what with gas prices and all.
Posted by: Bourgeois Nerd | June 5, 2006 04:09 PM
I could SO use one of thos right now!
And ditto on the sweltering hole comment (not that there is anything wrong with that!)
Posted by: boifromtroy | June 5, 2006 04:32 PM
I've never not gotten my deposit back. I just tell them before I move out that I'm posting it as last month's rent, and sortof double-dog dare them to assess damages. DC's rent laws are such that that's really hard to do.
Also, I live in a slum, so anything I do could count as rennovations.
Posted by: Michael | June 7, 2006 09:22 AM