Nightcrawler: "I live in a 32 family building. The LL has no keys. He has everyones phone numbers and can get in touch with them if need be." "I live in a mega apt neighborhood, huge tenements, most LL do not take keys." If that is true, then the property owners in question are idiots. Nightcrawler's solution if there is a problem is for the property owner to go up the fire escape, smash the window, and get in like that, or just wait until the tenants show up (if ever). Last week we had a complaint of considerable water coming in through the ceiling of a bathroom in a multi-unit (55)apartment building. There are four bathrooms on four floors immediately above the one with the leaky ceiling. We had to go into each unit to find the problem, which was the goofball tenant on the top floor was washing clothes in the tub, left the water running, and then went to work. If I followed Nightcrawler's technique, I would have had two choices: 1) track down four different tenants, and wait until they showed up (some might be out of town), with potentially thousands of dollars of water damage occurring in the interim; or 2) climb up an ice encrusted fire escape, smash four windows ($100+ each), climb over broken jagged glass without slicing myself open, and then have the tenants complain that there is broken glass & a broken window in sub-zero temperatures. Of course it would then take days to get those windows fixed (for example, try to get a window fixed over a holiday weekend). Let's look at some other reasons why it is a good idea for the property owner to have keys, instead of doing hundreds of dollars of damage by smashing a window or door to get in, or paying a locksmith $100 or more to come and change the lock: 1) Tenants losing keys; 2) Tenants leaving for the christmas holidays to some other country, leaving a window open that cannot be reached from the outside (potentially causing pipes to freeze & thousands of dollars of damages); 3) Surprise fire inspection from the city (resulting in a fine if the inspection cannot be completed at that time); 4) Surprise housing code inspection from the city (also resulting in a fine if the inspection cannot be completed at that time); 5) Tenants asking for a specific repair to be completed, we arrange for a plumber / electrician to come, tenants are not there at the appointed time, cannot be reached by phone, and the plumber / electrician charges us $150 just to show up and do nothing; 6) Tenants ask for a new appliance, we agree, arrange for a specific delivery time, tenant is not there, so we have to pay a delivery charge for nothing. We make sure we have keys, but each of these examples actually happened with tenants who thought it was a good idea to change the locks on their own without giving us a copy. In each case they were either charged the full cost of their action plus double penalty, or were evicted. We change the deadbolt locks for each new tenant. Your property owner is exposing himself to significant potential liability if he did not change your deadbolt locks, and you should insist on them being changed. But if you change them yourself without giving him a copy, you are exposing yourself to significant potential liability if a problem arises and it is difficult to get in, and damage to the building (or to persons) occurs as a result. We also do a full criminal / credit / background check on maintenance personnel. If they would steal from the tenants, they'd steal from the owner, so it is in our interest to make sure they are 100% ok. Dreamgarden: The property owner does not want to take your crappy stuff (kitchenware? old CDs? I don't think so). You are much more likely to get robbed by someone you know. If you don't like property owners who are proactive and try to maintain things to a high standard (ie fix stuff before it becomes an emergency, or install brand new windows in your case), then there are many buildings where you can move to where the owners never fix anything, and could not care less if you had a leaky faucet or drafty windows. Nightcrawler "If you lived in a house would you let a real estate agent bring prospective buyers a tour through your house while you were at work?": Of course, that is standard practice.

DH doesn't want to sour the relationship, however, on the other hand does not agree payment in full at this time is suitable either. He has decided to give them maybe 15% (50% of the remaining balance). Breezy_2 - the ordering of doors is done by them, not us. apparently they had some kind of family emergency which took them away for about a week. Understandably so, this pushed back the order. We have no problem with this and have never indicated we did. The only thing that may be our fault is not being up the architect's a$$ for the engineering for the mitered window because he dragged his feet. However, once again, inspection can't be done until all windows and doors are installed. So at this point the fact that the window has not been approved has not been a problem. It will only be a problem if doors are installed before we have that window approved and installed. We don't forsee this.

Quote from the first post : '' We called caesar stone and they clearly said thats not the way we recommened to install the sink but you can ask your fabricator to call us about the warranty . my question was very simple to them will it cause future problem with the life time warranty but they said your fabricator should call us and he is the one who can give you warranty for the installation .'' It looks like it is the fabricator you should ask about warranty . Just a reminder : You do have a 3cm Caeserstone , not the 2cm one . Even if the groove is 1cm deep , there is a lot of material left with lots of strength . As suggested , if concerns are about the material splitting , which in this case it is highly unlikely , then you can always fill the grooves as much as possible . Another reminder : The sink in question is coming with attaching brackets and maybe in the fabricators experience , they decided it is better to use them in combination with a strong man made stone . Nothing wrong with it , especially with sinks which need prying force to bring them close to the stone . I do not use this system , but I've seen it on many occasions by other fabricators . You should make sure the sink lip is siliconed well to the stone , for preventing future leaks .

I'd just like to know who makes the rules and exactly what they are. I'm biased ...so, "He who has the gold makes the rules." "Money buys influence." OMRI certification requires a lot of gold and letting them into your process which may be a little art you want to keep under wraps, and applies to the inputs used by organic farmers. They are a third party. That is one piece of the puzzle for organic products. Organic food can be marketed if it meets the National Organic Program laws overseen by the USDA. The USDA is the federal agency responsible for regulating food. OMRI doesn't certify produce, only inputs. Another third party could be used too, they don't have a monopoly. Regarding regulating, you need to go to the codes and laws of the USDA administered NOP. For example, if you grow hydroponically or want to generally use any commercial soluble mined fertilizer salts, it cannot be labeled as an organic food. Here is the part of the code that prohibits that, and you can see a lot of people in government have jobs due to things like having to maintain the "National List of synthetic substances allowed for use in organic crop production". It really is regulation out of control because at the base of it... it is subjective and subject to influence: NOP Title 7 BTW, I am a supporter of organic farming. Just not being regulated into oblivion for the benefit of rich & political interests. Cheers PC