A couple weeks ago, the new owners of the house we live in moved in upstairs. We had been in a state of trepidation over this, since we weren't sure what to expect with a new family upstairs. It went from a lovely older couple with a grown son, to a young couple with a 6 month old baby.
Since we have had our own share of 6 month old babies, we knew what kind of risk we would be taking by staying here. The baby actually isn't really that loud, we don't often hear her down here, and if we do, it's never really bothersome. Of course, we still are concerned about the people upstairs hearing our own 6 month old baby screaming at night. Ok, so she is almost 6 years old now, but has a tendency to throw uncontrollable fits, right when everyone else in the entire neighborhood is sleeping.
Alas, I digress, as the point of my post has little to do with Eleanor and her neverending effort to rid our household of complete nights of sleep. The people upstairs maintain that they do not hear her, which is hard to believe with the amount of noise Eleanor puts into her effort to end sleep.
It has to do with the dilemma we are having right now with the removal of cablevision. The lovely folks at Shaw cable have decided that for us to have cable in the basement suite, they would charge us for it. Fine, whatever, if that is what they need to do to make money I will continue to charge $3.99 for ramped up Iced Tea with a fancy name at my work. The issue isn't so much that we are cheap and want free cable, but we are cheap and want free cable. When we moved in, cable was included as part of the rent. Now, since we have new owners, they too are cheap and don't want to pay for our cable. Standoff commences.
Option A: order cable for ourselves and pay for it
Option B: demand that the cost of cable be taken off our rent, since it was originally included and now that it isn't give me a discount
Option C: continue to pay the same amount, and get rid of the TV cause there are better things to do anyway.
Option D: move again
Let me know what you think is the best answer. And please don't say move again (unless you are going to help pack and transport).
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Please do comment people... The other half AKA Vanessa.
hey, if u decide to get rid of the tv i will gladly use your xbox for you!!! i too have decided to get rid of the cable.... this time no rabbit ears. you still get to watch a lot of crud with them.
my vote is to keep the tv w/o cable. the kids can still watch vhs. paying for cable when u say there's better things to do is just silly. i don't like the moving idea at all. maybe the people upstairs should pay for it, or take some $$$ off if they won't. if it is going to cause some resentment towards them then you should talk to them (again?), if it's not a big deal then just let it go. i could be wrong, i could be right, it's just my 2 cents.
No matter what you decide to do about your own cable, I think you should talk to them about taking the cost off the rent. It was an included service that is no longer being offered, so you shouldn't have to pay for it.
-Ginger (AKA Nahanni :))
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