Thank you. I will be posting pics and measurements of the house if I get it. I know I will have to juggle some of the larger art pieces for sure. My largest piece - that print of The Palm House - may have to move to living room rather than the dining room. We shall see. I will have a covered patio at this next place although it looks a bit smaller but my 3 sunshades will make it very cozy. And I have to decide if I want to keep my dark green patio table and chairs. They would have to sit out on the rocks in the backyard. And I will have some window challenges where one window is centered in back wall with patio door taking up left side corner. I may have to think about how that will work. Right now the window has blinds and I will use my dining room drapes from Penneys and maybe buy more to cover adjacent patio doors. I am counting my chickens before they hatched. Ok, Eileen, stop decorating now. My friend back in WI thinks I should try to stay where I am since moving is stressful. But for me it will be another decorating and arranging adventure and help keep my mind off the chemo struggles I am going through. I think I may have to get off this oxaliplatin drug before it destroys my fine motor skills like drawing, sewing, and working on the computer. I will let you know what doctor says next time. My present rental house is very close to a major highway (although I do not hear the traffic) but whenever there is some accident or robbery or whatever the helicopters are flying over the house. I won't miss that. It makes me feel that I am being chased or that someone will start shooting. I watch too many cop shows and movies with chase scenes, I guess. Thank you all!!!!! And I look forward to our next decorating adventure!!!! Eileen

Asking for rental agreements, birth certificates and lunch menus is all well and good but I'm highly doubtful they're going to send this to you just because you request it, unless you use a subpoena. I personally would be very annoyed with a company sending out *my* contracts to every Tom, Dick and Harriet who requests it because they don't want to pay a bill, whether the bill is valid or not. AFAIC that's private data between the company and me and giving that out could be a potential violation of data privacy. I'm not sure they can give it out like that. The big question is how much time, effort and money will you spend on this? I'd definitely be looking at the paperwork, who signed it, who checked it in and the like. You could subpoena the the person checking it in to testify or at least get a deposition and/or affidavit about it. Likely they won't remember much, especially if they want to keep their job, if they're still employed there. Trying to track them down if they're gone, well that might not be easy or cheap either. Did you agree to arbitration for dispute resolution? What state's laws control the contract? This can make a difference too if you want to go that far. Fine print usually has a number of quirks in it. If you live in Texas and agreed that Delaware's laws will apply, that can be another monkey wrench tossed in. I do think you're doing the right thing to take the position that they haven't proven anything to you. (They who assert must prove.) Have they sent any estimate from a repair shop or is it just their standard claim amount? $500 isn't much damage. Scratches, small dent or two will hit $500 these days. I'd be going above the person sending this. I'd also go back to the person who initially agreed to drop it. Did you document time, date, etc and did they put it in writing that they'd drop it? I'd look over the contract too and see if there's any time-frame that could help you. How long do they have to make a claim and such. I certainly wouldn't go off saying you're representing yourself or anything like that since that's redundant. Obviously you're representing yourself. I highly doubt they'll take you to conciliation court. It's not worth it to them either. They'll probably just badger you, try screwing with your credit and the like and of course the dunning letters to get you to give in. You actually have some proof in your favor right now. They supplied you with a photo that apparently shows no damage. I'd use that to my benefit too, send it to the hierarchy and say this is proof that the vehicle wasn't damaged by you. Or save it for the credit agencies and collection agents. two.25acres raised good points. Comp claims won't normally count against you and *if* you're satisfied that the damage occurred while in your possession, since in reality a rock could have flown off a truck or something, it wouldn't be too big a deal and insurance companies like to split the difference a lot so they'd likely settle for a couple hundred. This is something you could negotiate too. You could offer them $100 to resolve it, with no admission of liability and to resolve it too, but I'd be sure to make it clear that this is just offered as a resolution and that you're fully satisfied that you're not liable, will be proven as such in court, etc. Let's face it, involving a lawyer is not a financially prudent thing to do. You'll pay far more than $500 to use an attorney and may well still be found liable. You won't get even an inexperienced lawyer for $500 since this will involve far more than an hour or two and that's what they bank on when they do this stuff. If you have a check-in statement with an inspection or release and coupled with the pictures you have, you could be in good shape. If you don't, you might be in trouble. Not right, but the way things go. But again, I'd go back to the one with whom you had the agreement and work that end first. Good luck.

oh my gosh georgia! We still drive by our rental daily as it's on the main thoroughfare through town and I can't help myself from looking at it every.single.day and so glad I am not there anymore. I told dh we should bring a meal of sympathy to the new renters. The constant lady bugs (where do they come from???), the horrible dirty water and poor pressure, the horrible insulation/heat and matching heat bill, the road noise that shook the house, the black and red kitchen (not sleek not modern) with next to no lighting and no vent fan. 10 months - 10 months too long, lol! But you know what - we survived a single bathroom the size of a cracker jack box. All the more to appreciate when you MOVE OUT that's for sure. You can do it!

Garage rental unit with all the associated engineering headaches will start at 500K CA pricing for something small. Just because the lot is zoned for it doesn’t mean it will be easy or cheap. 200K in landscaping doesn’t go far on a giant slope either. But 700K will get you a bare minimum for what you are wanting. It only goes up from there. It could easily be more than 1M yo create the luxury estate like presence that you seem to want. If you want to move out out of CA, you could probably do it for 200K in a lesser metro FL area. And still have tropical plants. But more water for them.