Problem #1
When we first moved in, we walked up to our apartment and all the windows were covered with water. Thinking that our apartment didn't properly dry from the recent carpet cleaning, we did our best to always leave windows open. On top of our apartment always being damp and humid, it had a terrible mildew smell so we were afraid that mold had formed on the carpets. With Jed's work equipment he re-cleaned the carpets and we thought our problems were solved. Unfortunately it was still always humid and it still smelled really bad. Because of the high July and August heat, our apartment had turned into a sauna and we had no way to cool it down. Finally we talked to the manager about the problem. He told us this was normal and just happens during the summer. After further investigation though, our manager discovered that a crawl space directly beneath our apartment had a hot water leak and over 2000 gallons of hot water was steaming into our apartment. Problem number one is now fixed thank goodness.
Problem #2
We were having serious ant problems. We keep our apartment pretty clean be we would still watch our crumbs scurry across the floor on a daily basis. I noticed that there was a high concentration of ants in the bathroom and wondered if that was where they were coming from. Jed and I went to Smiths and got those ant traps with peanut butter looking stuff in them and put some in our kitchen and then in our bathroom. It was pretty fun the first day to watch ant after ant pick up the food in the bathroom and take it back to there home in the wall hoping it would mean the end to our little friends. After a day our two of this one morning we woke up to hundreds of dead ants on our bathroom floor. It was so weird! I guess they left the nest to die. We would vacuum the dead ones up and by the next day we would have a new batch of dead ants on the floor. This continued for a couple days and I think we are officially ant free!
Problem #3
I HATE SNAKES! Yeah I can look at one in the wild at a close distance but I've never been a huge fan, especially when they are in our apartment. So last Sunday i was minding my own business in the bathroom when i saw something sticking out a crack in the wall. I started to get closer when I realized that it was the head of a snake. As quickly as I could I sprinted out of the bathroom (screaming of course) and jumped on the couch. Jed obviously startled asked what was wrong and I told him there was a snake in our bathroom. What the heck do you do with a snake in your bathroom! So then after calming down (a little) we sat and watched the snake hoping he would come a little further out so we could grab him. We were hesitant to grab him with just his head poking out in fear that he would go back in the wall. So finally after some time of nothing happening, we called our manager to ask for some caulk to seal the hole once we go the snake out. He got super excited and came running down to see the snake and accidently scarred it back in the wall and then sealed the hole shut. Ya so try sleeping knowing that there is a snake in your wall. Not that easy. The next day we came home from classes for a lunch brake. Jed was already in the kitchen and as I was walking towards him when I looked over at his bike (we keep our bikes in our apartment). Draped across the handle bars was our little friend. I seriously thought I was going to die. I screamed and sprinted out of the house. Jed of course started laughing at me cause he knew I must have found the snake. Because I have such an amazing husband, we no longer have snake problems...at least we better not. Oh and we think he came from the crawl space under our apartment which our manager has secured with snake traps and repellent just in case.
The snakes final minute
