We moved to the Aspen area about 8 years ago. We have rented 6 homes during that time.
First house---boiler failed in a shaking smoking is it going to explode mess. Took 3 weeks to get heat back. Daughter's room never had heat--property manager said ' I didn't have heat in my cabin growing up what is she complaining about'
Second home--we only lived in it for 3 months---their version of 'furnished' channeled the furniture found in delta house in the movie animal house.
Third home---dear lord. When we moved in it wasn't clean the the closets and drawers were full of their stuff, the pantry was full of their stuff (7 coffee machines) the WiFi lighting system didn't work (no lights in rooms under ground---yea we used head lamps) the heat broke and took weeks to be repaired, the roof needed to be repaired and the AV system was so screwed up that while watching Avengers End Game the audio from the TV was from little fires everywhere. It was amusing for about 5 min and then annoying.
4th home--- not too bad. WiFi didn't really work during COVID with kids doing class online and the property manager tried to kill one of our bunnies but aside from that we had heat (and everything else was ok)
5th home---total shit or as my bro in law said 'this house has a lot of deferred maintenance'. Example--the front door was stuck shut for 3 weeks, the washing machines didn't work when we moved in, the master bedroom didn't have heat, the lights in one bathroom didn't work, the window hardware on casement windows was broken AND best of all the grill wasn't installed to code in exploded resulting in the gas line rupturing and spraying flames everywhere. The house and the neighborhood almost burned to the ground.
6th home (current) heat pump failed. Its cold. Heating guys said they can get to it in a week.
Is this normal? Is construction that bad in the valley. Are all home owners too cheap to do maintenance and get work done right? Is it even possible to get work done right.
The view sure is nice though.
PS its not just me---the Burlingame project was supposed to have move in this week. Now that is TBD on cert of occupancy --end result is 100s of people who don't have a place to live.
