Off to Small Claims Court
Small Claims Court, here we come. It’s been an ongoing issue for the last few months: The fact that the previous owners left our place quite a mess, created a bird shelter for a pigeon with her two eggs and (apparently) refuse to comment on any of that or take any form of responsibility for it.
I’ve said before how we ended up with a big mess on our deck, everything covered in bird poop. Three birds produce quite a bit of that when they live in one spot for about a month and a half. We have repeatedly tried to contact the previous owners via their real estate agent. It turns out she refused to forward our letters (she’s also a personal friend of the previous owner’s, go figure) and it took phoning her supervisor to get that sorted out — or so we think. We have no way of really knowing if she actually passed on our second letter. We know for a fact that she didn’t pass on our first, friendlier letter from back in September.
It looks like they feel either safe that we won’t be able to serve them the papers, because they think we don’t have a contact address for them, or they think we aren’t serious. Either way, somebody’s going to have one hell of a surprise.
There has been no reply in about a month and a half, and it has been made quite clear to them what would happen in such a case (we’d take the matter to court). So the forms are now filled out and ready to be submitted to court.
The latest “fun” news, though, is that it seems like the previous owners were in contact with our strata council about the bird poop on our deck, but still didn’t bother to respond to us in any way shape or form. We found this out only by chance.
UPDATE: Turns out the previous owner is on vaction till Jan. 15. So no luck serving the papers today. 
