And the saga continues....

Well.....After much consideration on how we were going to pay for all of this we decided to cancel the contract for the waterproofing at this time. We are still planning on getting it done, just not now that we have another bill to take care of. This past Tuesday they came and started digging the front yard to fix the sewer line. Thankfully I was at work in the morning. When I came home around 12:30 I could see the piles of dirt from down the street along with the huge backhoe in my front yard. O what a sight. I almost wanted to vomit. Anyways on a good note, they got it done in one day..they were done by 5:30pm and...get this...it was only $1800 instead of $4000. What...yea actually we caught a little break there for a second. So, that headache is done for now. They will be out in the spring to grate the front yard and make it all smooth and pretty again. As of Tuesday we still did not have our check from the city for the sewer back up and we found out why...when they were digging out front the city guys kept stopping by and asking them a bunch of questions about the repair and asking if they thought that it was somehow our fault...can you believe it...well I guess I can. The sewer company fixing it said that in no way was it our fault, it just wasn't possible for our problem to have caused it. So guess what....about an hour later we got a call that our check was ready to be picked up. We got it today and cashed it right away...damn city. And remember me telling you about the waterproofing thing...well we got a call today that hmmm cancelling the contract did not totally cancel it. I don't get it but apparently we agreed to be on call so that they could do it within 24hours notice if they got a cancellation so they could fit us in. And because of that they already went out and bought stuff and spent a lot of money and I guess cancelling the contract does not let us out of the obligation of owing them money for that. I definitely do not see it. I have read that contract over and over, front and back and I think that they are trying to screw us....again. I wish I had a friend that was a lawyer because I sure could give him a bunch of business right now. I'm so tired of this crap happening.