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To: livius

I volunteered to perform post-construction Inspections for 2 local Habitat chapters a few years ago. The new owners would bitch about colors of paint and flooring, that appliances weren’t upgraded, etc..... and a large part of those materials were donated or provided at cost. After about 6 months of dealing with ingrates it just wasn’t worth it any more.


63 posted on 10/19/2019 6:43:46 PM PDT by txeagle
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My family member was an ED for a chapter. The homeowners - not all, some were very good - had mostly been in public assistance and didn’t know about things like paying on time, doing their own repairs, etc. And because many had lived in public housing, they were used to a miserably, low standard of maintenance.

And then there’s the cultural thing. I was in Israel a couple of weeks ago (doing the basic Holy Land tour with an Israeli guide). We went through the West Bank to Bethlehem, and I saw that the PA had a splendid new palace. We couldn’t get near it.

I
The I noticed a lot of “hate Trump, hate the US” graffiti on the wall, even though we give them bunches of bucks. The

The motto Is: Drop it? Don’t pick it up.


69 posted on 10/19/2019 7:40:21 PM PDT by livius
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