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The well guys were supposed to come today to start working on our well. Our house came with well water already, and when we moved it, it was our understanding that we were supposed to pay the owner of the well between $5 to $25 a month for our share. Well it didn't turn out that way... He said the contract no longer held up because it was his Aunt who lived here, and the contract only lasted as long as both parties agreed. Well he didn't agree with it any more, and we had trouble with the water shutting off nearly every day.
The first time it happened, we asked why, and he said because the main switch to the well was on the property next to us inside the trailer. The problem with that was that he was renting that trailer out to people who weren't paying their bill, he couldn't get them off the property, and they were just being assholes. I guess they expected us to pay THEM for use of the well? There wasn't any way that was going to happen... He said we could either have a meter on the well over there that would run a line to us and we would pay for it, or we could have our own well dug.
The problem with that is that there was still no guarantee that they wouldn't shut it of. The meter would be just to monitor our usage and decide how much we would need to pay, so that wasn't actually an option in our opinion. I think he was just trying to get more money out of us, to be honest. So the only other option was to have a well dug of our own.
The asshole neighbors keep turning the water off almost every day while the kids are in school. When the kids are home, or it's the weekend, they leave the water on. So now we're having to pay $13000 to get a well dug! Adam was able to pay $3000 of it so far, but his parents are paying the rest, which means we are going to have to make payments to them until it's all paid off...
On the bright side - no more shut off, and once we pay this off, we will never have to pay for our water again! The kids were home today. The school called today "fall break". It was only one day, but that's 1 day I am happy for! Hopefully they will be here tomorrow though. I can't wait to get this done! I hate that it's going to cost so much, but in the long run it's the better option.
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