Larry Rabe worked this morning to repair a water leak at the corner of 101. It appeared to have been leaking a long time, but was undiscovered since the sand just lets the water drain into the ground without forming a wet spot on top. The electrical wire in the photo was not live.
Fishing off the pier at night continues to be very good. Last Saturday evening Don Gormley(guest in 210) and his son in law, Royal, caught 11 keeper trout with the largest being 18.5 inches long. Tuesday the guests in 606 had a nice stringer of trout off the pier. They also came in Saturday with their limit of reds.
Peeco Pump Company came out yesterday to see what was wrong with out lift station pump. Bad news. The pump is burned out and a new one is in the neighborhood of $4,000. We will have to hope the backup pump will carry us through the holidays until the other one can be replaced.
A representative from the AEP came out to check our security lights yesterday. She said we are paying for 11 lights, but have only four on our property. I have known that for years, but could not get anything done about it. Most of the other lights we are paying for seem to be at Phase II. She will get more information for us after the first of the year.
I found out yesterday that our new provider of television service is Cobridge. They purchased the area franchise from Charter in October. They have not transferred all the records and could not give me much information.
Jim Fisch(705) and I spent four hours on Monday going through records of our property that are on file at the Aransas County Clerk's office. We found some things I did not know about. For one, as of 1998, all expenses for the boat ramp cleaning and repair are to be split with Phase II and Sea Shell Shores. We have always done this all by ourselves. I know we spent about $1,100 to fill the propwash dropoff at the end of the ramp. Some of the records we found appear to even be fraudulent. We will be doing some more work on this.
As of last week the entire board of directors for Phase II resigned. With active attorneys on several sides, I don't know how they will find anyone to take those offices. They intend to call a special meeting of owners to elect a new board. We are fortunate that none of our board members lease their condos through the rental office at Phase II and are not involved in any of their problems. Three board members were leasing there, but all three got out of that pool.
Mike McAdams, who was the contractor for our new roof, came by a couple of weeks ago. He told me that he had given us a five year warranty. That was good news that no one had passed on. We have recently spent several thousand dollars to repair roof leaks and interior damage caused by the leaks. I know of two current roof leaks and Mike said he will come by next week and repair them under warranty. He says one leak looks like someone removed the flashing that he had installed.
Scott continues to monitor the invoices that are received at Johnson and Cate. Last month he found two invoices totaling over $1,300 that were sent to us, but were not our expense. This had been happening over the last few years, but no one was monitoring to be sure if they belonged to us. The result was that we paid for a lot of things that we should not have.