I received an interesting piece of mail today, the annual Army Housing Survey.  Its a little survey asking about how we like on-post housing and our experiences with customer service, service calls, and quality.  Needless to say, my cardboard project housing received very poor scores. 

We can’t even get satisfactory service because the housing contractor doesn’t want to put money into these POS houses.  They have been on the chopping block for about 3-4 years now and they keep backing up the date of demo because of all the troops coming here due to BRAC.  They barely maintain them and then they complain whenever they have to drive through the neighborhood that its messy looking.  I have many stories I could tell about the things the housing office has pulled on us, not to mention my neighbors.  We don’t even get A/C like the other housing districts.  We have swamp coolers that tend to break down, leak into the houses, and blow dirt and black looking crud all over the house.  My particular cardboard house (yes, it is cardboard - Masonite) has rotting siding and a crack that extends from my kitchen ceiling across the duplex and through the neighbors unit.  I can’t get anything fixed without and argument, so I have basicaly given up unless its an urgent circumstance.

I think the only decent scores I gave the housing on the survey was for parking space and pet policy.  Our entire back lot is concrete with rocks, nails, and broken glass.  Not so great for the kids, but it works as extra parking space for company.  They are also pretty lenient on the pet policy since we don’t have any fence or yard, they don’t complain to heavily about chaining dogs up outside as long as its not an all day affair.  Besides that, I am living in a run down project just like the ones off post that are crack dens and gang areas.

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