Thanks to all that responded to my problem. I am on digest and think now that I need to go to individual postings. This list is GREAT!
Here's my update......since the range was about 15 year old ( I bought it back then)....and since they don't make them like they used too...I went ahead and ordered a new kitichen range from Lowes.
I don't pray a lot but I did HOPE the stove itself was the problem and not about the electical house wireing to it. I bought this house back 15 years ago and did a lot of re-modleing of it back then and all along though the years that I've owned it I've done what ever it took to keep it maintanied .....two years ago I did MAJOR updates again.....but the wireing to the house was just re-done before I bought it, so I wasn't too sure about it and hoped the house wireing was not the problem.
I called the tentants this a.m. and left a message for them to call me back after the new range was delivered from lowes.
The house itself was built back in the 1940's or so.
The TENTANTS'S response was good.........their new range is working just fine.....and I got a good deal/price on it. I'am just happy to know it wasn't the wireing inside the house that csused the problem.
Could I have fixed this problem my-self.......Maybe........but I am afraid of most things that are electrical. I can do some plumbing and lots of other things .....but anything electrical scares me.....well not everything....I can replace light switches, plug ins and such.
I've helped to re-novate many houses in my past.......I am 65 years old now, a female, and I do what I do... the best I can at my age these days and a lot of what I have to do is about tending to my own property and my rentals .
I've been ripped off more times than I want to share........but the money isn't there anymore and I am tired of being ripped off by so called electricans and plumbers!!!!!!!!!!!
Like I had a plumber who gave me a bid of $700 last year .....and then charged me $1700 and he screwed me over good, but I stopped him after he bashed in a toilet (broke it). and told me I had to replace all of my faucets in the house....the faucets where fairley new I had just replaced them 2 yrs. prior. and he lied ..because they were working fine when he got there and worked fine after I fired him..... and then another comany got me for a new H&A system...a heat pump for another of my rentals cost me $3600 but I was suppose to get a $1500 rebate but he never gave me the rebate papers (if there was any to begin with).
I can do some things still......and want too.........but don't have much trust in those I've hired to do a right job or a good job.
I used to have good dependable people that I could trust for like 20 years to help me tend to my rentals and my own home....but they all have retired now since they are older than me ......so they are older than dirt, lol..
I just feel like I am having to start all over again trying to find find electrains, plumbers and so on......for jobs I can't do by myself any-more.......so that's why I am here on this list group now.........I need your help........because it's hard for me to trust all of thses guys out there .....that are winging it ........and calling themselves plumbers, electricans or carpenters.
But I also think I can give some help also to others on the list sometimes. Besides old house revotations that I've done in the past... I I owned an antque shop for 20 years and have restored a lot of furniture along the way.
I know this is way too long a post........sorry about that.....but I look forward to helping whenever I can and getting help when I need it.
S.J.
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