Well, it was bound to happen and for some reason lately all of our housing problems have involved water leaks! We got the dreaded call from one of our vacation home neighbours that there was a water leak at our vacation house. My husband immediately called the resort manager to have the leak taken care. Apparently it is a rather common problem in the resort and we were told to call the utility company to remind them we had had a leak if there were any charges. We got the bill today and was sickened to see 1.200 gallons of water had been used! In terms of cost is was only $10.48 but heavens that amount of fresh water going to waste is just horrible in my eyes. So I called the utility company and they said the leak must have been on the house side otherwise it would not have registered on the meter. Anything on the house side of the meter is the customer's responsibility. That's fair enough as it is the same thing here in Canada so no big surprise. At any rate the problem has been repaired by the park so we will likely have a small repair bill when we get down there the next visit although we have had no notification of any type of bill.
We now find ourselves in the same position many Canadian snowbirds who own property outside of Canada face year round. We have to rely on good neighbours and the resort itself for these types of problems given the distance the vacation home (US) is from our permanent home in Canada. It isn't like we can just drop, run and be there within a few minutes or even an hour or so. We are very lucky we bought in this community where not only the resort itself looks out for residents the neighbours do too!
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