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So me and my 2 friends are eager to start a small business of sorts and don't really know which avenue to take. I was looking into things like carpet cleaning or pressure washing businesses but thought it's best to ask for advice. Carpet cleaning looked good to me but I wasn't sure if there really needed to be more than 1 person to do something like that and was wondering which choices would best suit a business with 3 business partners, where it would actually be beneficial to have more than one person. :)

Wife and I are about to close on a house (by June 20th) and have our last day in the town home be July 20th, which gives us a month to pull carpet and replace with new flooring and paint the walls. Plan on doing a deep clean of it and maybe installing some security cameras around it too. This gives us a month to prep and move everything which is nice because I honestly hate moving so if I can spread it out and not pack it all into one or two days I'm happy. Just curious to see how long others took to prep and move.

Hi, I hope this title isn't seen as clickbaity because its 100% true. Sorry its a long one I really need help.
Me my partner and a friend lived together and we adopted 3 cats.
A bunch of stuff happened and now I live with a different person, her 1 cat and my 2. (We're also cat sitting a fourth)
So all 4 cats are under 1 year, with my two being 1 in September, theyre all indoor cats and they're nightmares, I absolutely love them to bits but i cant cope, They urinate on everything (clean litter daily and 5 accessible litter boxes) they climb curtains even though they have plenty of toys. They tare up carpets if they're not given access to a room.
I have more vertical climbing space arriving today and I've ordered pheromonal plug ins to see if it calms them down and I'm hoping to get them neutered on my next paycheque but its just all really hard.
My landlord/flatmate is very strict about where they can climb (so chests of drawers are off bound??) even if theyre not causing damage. And they all have to be separated into bedrooms at night (there's 3 rooms) meaning my two are pent up in a tiny room for 8 hours
She works like 10 hour shifts Monday-Friday excluding Wednesdays. So I'm alone looking after all 4 cats daily, and I have a damaged hand making more things extra difficult.
Obviously she's the landlord what she says goes, but I don't have anywhere else to go. This isn't a criticism of her she's a lovely person and she's obviously just trying to protect her house but my cats would be absolutely fine if it wasn't for the living situation.
Literally any and all advice is welcome! Though please don't take time out of your day to be harsh and critical toward me or my landlord or even my cats.
Thank you all so much

Please bare with me because I will be ranting about a lot of things lol. So I have been friends with this girl ashley for about 3 years now and for the past year she's honestly been annoying me pretty badly. I don't want to be as close of friends with her but it's hard because I am literally her only friend, and I have introduced her to pretty much everyone she meets/talks to. There are many things that she does that have honestly really pissed me off. First off I must add I go to college in a completely different state and she doesn't go to school and still lives at home. So, i do get a break from her which is relieving. Anyways, since being friends with her she has copied pretty much everything I do and what I wear. She buys the same shoes as me and the same exact clothes as me, and the same makeup and literally everything. I get really agitated about that stuff because I like being my own person and buying things that I love but it's annoying when everytime she just goes out of her way and buys the same exact things. Like today we went to buy bathing suits and I was like "oh i just got these two yesterday" and she immediately picked them both up and bought them. Let me know if that's like a normal thing but it pisses me off to the core. Another thing that pisses me off is she just invited herself to my house all of the time - like every single day - and sleeps over every day too, and doesn't even ask. I need my own space and alone time but it's pretty hard considering she just invites herself and I just feel awkward and rude making up excuses and stuff. Also i must add she is the messiest person ever and everytime she is over she completely wrecks my room and I have to clean up after her. Since she stays over all of the time I always make her food as well (srsly feel like i'm this girls mother). she always puts her straightener on my carpet even though I have told her 500 times not to do that because it completely RUINS my carpet, not to mention it's literally a fire hazard lol. My carpet is ruined because of her. She is also the type to make me look bad and feel awkward whenever we are with boys..... which is actually so frustrating to me and immature in my opinion. As mentioned before, I go to school in another state everytime I come home she brings up people from our highschools drama (alot having to do with my ex bf and his new gf) which everytime i show no interest in caring or wanting to know anything because i have grown up and don't even live there half the time anymore, plus i have a new boyfriend. I think she does that on purpose to like make me feel bad about myself or something because i don't know what other reason it would be.... another thing, as mentioned before she doesn't go to school and still lives in our hometown but every single time someone asks her where she goes to school, she says the same school that I go to and tells people she's in the same sorority as me. I went to this school to get away from all those people I went to HS with and to start a new fresh chapter in my life, and she is constantly telling me how she wants to move in the same apartment as me even though she literally isn't even planning on going to school there. I just feel like I can't catch a break. And she also takes so many of my clothes and I haven't seen them since. She is crazy messy and alotttt of my clothes are just scattered around somewhere in her house and I never get them back. She tried selling a pair of my shoes on poshmark- only reason she took the post down was because I saw it and was like wtf???? So she gave me them back, and then the next day of course she sleeps over my house and she just puts them on and wears them to work???? And here we are back to square one, I don't have them again lol. She also tells her ex bf like stuff that I tell her but over exaggerates it and makes me look bad, so now I feel like i can't even tell her anything. Ugh. I just don't want to be friends with this girl anymore but really don't know what to do as I am literally her only friend and have been there through it all, I just don't feel the same. Please let me know your thoughts and what I should do about this and lmk if i'm being dramatic lol.
-forgot to add that i'm simply a convenience to her because when she had a boyfriend she never had time for me or ever asked to hang, and when we did he would always have to be there 🙄

I started renting this house a few weeks ago. It was a nice 2 bedroom bathroom house with a 2 car garage and a sizable driveway. The grass was in very good health and the wooden fence was always painted a very bright and clean shade of white every few weeks. It was like a house from the 50s because it was. There was something charming about it, the wooden paneling, the porch with the backyard deck, the grill, the cozy little shack out back full of tools, and the lawnmower. I was allowed to rent this out for as long as I needed so I could write a report about a murder. One that happened in this very house in fact. All those years ago a couple lived here, they were crazy about each other. And some of the neighbors as well. For over 2 decades they poisoned, stabbed, and shot various other families. It was never clear why they did it or what motives they had.
In the very end, it was chalked up as pure insanity, a pair of psychopaths married together. They had a son and daughter, but the grandparents had taken them out of that household after finding out about the first murder, they kept quiet. This house has been turned into a sort of museum and rental space over the past few years. It was closed off to the public for over 3 decades but recently opened back up for people to look at. Turns out that renting out and giving tours of a haunted house was profitable.
Oh, I forgot to mention that it was haunted by the souls of the couple who killed those families back in the day. This was something I was having a hard time documenting in the report I was writing. I mean, come on, a haunted house? What the hell is this, a horror novel? I was dead wrong about it though. It all started one night when this one song started playing on a phonograph in the living room. It was Put Your Head On My Shoulder by Paul Anka. I can't get it out of my head. It played over and over every night.
The nights would go the same way over and over. I would go to bed at around 10 PM. After that, the house would fall into an odd silence. The lights came on in the living room and that song would start playing itself. The movement of footsteps could be heard as they creaked against the hardwood floors.
"Please, come out and join us. It's quite a fine night.", a female voice would call out.
"Come now, be our guest, and take a seat out here. We'll drink tea and listen to the radio.", a male voice would soon follow up with the woman's voice.
It was not safe to get up and check it out, despite their words of assurance. Doing so could bring unknown results. It may have been safe, but something in my body told me otherwise. I would stay in bed until 6 AM, that's the time everything would fade away and turn to normal. Their little dance and music would go on all night, but I would still be able to sleep. While dozing off it seems like the music would go silent despite still playing. I guess their only goal at first is to draw you out.
It's been a few days of this before things took a step up. I've been hearing...people? It's almost like a party happened during the night hours. Again I find that I cease to hear it once I fall asleep. I guess these little events are mere attempts at giving incentives for me to leave the room rather than to torture me. Although every so often there'll be a knock on the door asking me to come out. It only lasts a second before the person walks away. They're very polite about it though and they don't stick around, merely ask me and then vanish once they don't hear an answer in 5 seconds.
During the daytime, I've been logging this information into my reports. I feel like I'm going insane slightly, these can't be real, right? I must be breathing some sort of hallucinogenic gas being pumped in here. Got the vents checked out, nothing wrong with them. They did need to be cleaned though so at least I had an excuse to get them worked on without looking like a crazy person. I never find a trace of this couple during the day. No shoes, footprints, altered objects, nothing. Not a single thing moved out of place or touched. Hell, things seem slightly cleaner in the morning. It may be the fact that I try to keep things as they are though.
I spend my days walking around the neighborhood. The people living around here are mostly millennials. The ones who either inherited these houses and chose to rent them out or live in them instead of selling them. Or renting them to cut down certain parts of the mortgage. I drive into the city and head to a coffee shop I like for a few hours. I leech off the free wifi so I can get my things done. There's free wifi at the house, but it's a gamble on the speeds and connection. I also like starting my day off with coffee and going about my hours getting cake and a few sandwiches.
It's now week 3 and I'm almost done. I was given 4 weeks before the deadline to make a report on this house so the people I work for can get some info. They're not exactly well informed since most of the people have either died, "killed themselves", or simply walked out after a few days. The only reason I've survived this long is that I read every last bit of data I could from both historical records and the half-assed papers people put together before throwing their badges to the side and working for another newspaper. I'm barely getting anything interesting so far aside from the fever dream of a stay I'm getting from this place.
These days during the third week have been weird. I wake up at the same time only to hear humming. Musical humming, no particular song, just random notes. This is the wife humming while making some sort of breakfast. Her name is Rose, and her husband is Clark. Can't believe I've been referring to them as the husband and the wife all this time. It changes during these days but it ranges from bacon and eggs to cereal and orange juice with toast to a full pancake breakfast. They got bigger and bigger every day. On day one I stayed in my room until the humming stopped. Only lasted for about 15-20 minutes. After that, I would check the kitchen to find a freshly cooked breakfast. Rose wasn't anywhere in sight though.
I was hesitant to eat it at first since I wasn't sure what would happen. But I was hungry that morning and didn't feel like making the drive to the city so early in the morning. The food was good and I didn't feel poisoned or anything. I would set the dishes in the sink and take a shower. Not even 15 minutes later after getting out of the shower and getting dressed, the dishes were washed, dry, and sitting in the cupboards. I'm honestly not sure why people have been dying or quitting this trip. So far I've stayed out of their way and never really messed with anything. I feel like a guest here and act as one which is probably the key here. You can't live here, merely stay for a certain amount of time. I don't know how long that time frame is though.
Week 4, these last 7 days are my final chances to wrap this up before the deadline. I am nowhere closer to finding out how these past journalists died, why this couple did what they did, or anything like that. The best I'm going to do is probably pump out a short guide on how not to die here. This week was the hardest. The haunting extends all day. You see, the morning would start off as normal like last week. Waking up, hearing the humming, waiting for it to stop, eating breakfast, putting the dishes in the sink, etc. The real difference is that they are now visible and active all day and night.
Clark spends his day sitting on an armchair reading a newspaper, funny detail is that the date of the newspaper follows our date, Only the month and day, not the year. He is always dressed in a white dress shirt with the top button left undone. Simple ironed black dress pants with a leather belt neatly wrapped around them. Brown leather shoes, more like loafers actually. The kind of dress shoes you slip on. They were always shined and clean. His right leg is on the floor with his left leg stretched over his right. The newspaper covered his face. The only thing that could be seen from the other side was the occasional cigarette smoke puffing up.
The cigarette never had a scent though, phantom tobacco, funny. Rose would be sitting on the couch most of the time either knitting, reading a magazine, or watching the TV. It was a large black and white tv, the outside made of hardwood, the thick glass of the display, and the antenna sticking out of the top. Can't miss those two large dials on it. There was always something different on TV, one moment it was a cooking show, the news, and even a Western movie. The volume was always able to be heard but sort of faint as well. Kind of like a sort of background noise you barely notice after a while.
It was not a good idea to verbally or physically interact with them in any way. Not even looking at them was an option. I've never seen either of their face outside of photos because I'm always staring at my phone, or laptop, even intentionally staring at the floor. The carpet was very pleasant to look at. They never spoke during the day. Rose would sometimes clean the house. Sometimes dusting, vacuuming, and even washing the dishes. I lied, I've caught small glimpses of their faces from reflections. They are in their young age from the 60s, the prime of their life right before the major kill streak.
I can't even explain any of this. This house could slowly be turning into a self-contained instance of time. But that wouldn't make sense since the wifi here works, my money is up to date, and my tech can be charged. A few of the outlets were swapped out for more modern ones. Only the ones not already connected to appliances or the TV itself. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner would always appear on the table at different times of the day. Breakfast at 6 AM, lunch at noon, and dinner at 6 PM. I would always eat in silence and put the dishes in the sink. I've tried rinsing the dishes before at least but the water never touched them. I don't know how to explain it, but I would turn on the water and it would just phase through the dishware. I gave up after one day.
Well, this is the final day. I'll be scheduling this report to send itself in a few hours. I don't even want to manually do it since I'm rinsing my hands off this worthless paperwork once I leave. There was one thing I wanted to check out though. I'm going to continue this bit on my phone.
I always wanted to check out the basement. I forgot that it even existed this whole time. The door wasn't blocked or locked at all luckily. The door opened just fine, but the lightbulb turned on for about a second before blowing out. It didn't actually explode, but the light sort of just flashed and burned out like a flashbang. The steps are quite loud as they creak. I'm not sure what this smell is, it's like a mixture of gas and...rotten meat?
The door just closed itself, the only light I have down here is from my phone flashlight. There's some kind of red puddle leading to a room down here. I'm not liking it. I'm writing this live so my boss can read this. Yes, I know, hard to believe I'm actually being productive.
This...this is blood. There's a body in here. No wait, multiple bodies down here. I can see dozens or even hundreds of flies just covering these bodies. I think I recognize some of the badges around the necks. All of these bodies smell fresh. Is time frozen down here or something?
...shit. There are footsteps coming down here. I'm squeezed behind a broken-down fridge, perhaps Clark will just give up his search in a few minutes. My 911 alert just failed. This one message will probably be the last thing that'll automatically upload. I think I just made a horrible mistake. I wasn't supposed to come down here. If you're reading this, please call for hel---
*Connection lost*
*Report upload incoming*
I recently got to rent out a home from the 60s. This house is famous because of a couple that used to live here from the 60s to the 80s. They were known for killing people and families during this time period before finally being caught by the police. These were the things I've learned during my stay in this house:
- During the first week there will be dancing. From 10 PM to 6 AM there will be activity in the living room. The couple will appear out there and dance to a song called Put Your Head On My Shoulder along with a few others.
- They will assure you that it's fine to come out and join them. Don't do it. I've never attempted so I don't know if anything happens, but trust your gut.
- During week 2 they will start hosting a "party". The sound of many people will come from the living room as if people have come over for the evening. Every few hours the door will knock as someone on the other end will invite you to join everyone.
- During week 3 the haunting will break into the day. During the morning the wife will be in the kitchen making breakfast, do not leave your room until she is done. You can use the bathroom, just don't look or enter the kitchen. You will hear her humming for about 20 minutes. Once it stops, you can go about your day. The food is perfectly fine to eat and is actually encouraged. Make sure you put your dishes in the sink.
- During week 4, if you've survived this long, they will roam the house 24/7. Do not make eye contact with either of them. They'll mainly stay in the living room. The husband sitting on the armchair reading a newspaper and the wife reading a magazine or knitting. Occasionally she'll clean the house. If you are going to be in the living room, keep your eyes low and do not verbally interact with them.
- If you do...I'm not sure. There have been reports of them killing people during this time. Acting hostile at them or trying to kill them will not end well. Many have rented this place out and almost all of them have died. Some were filled with stab wounds, some were in the tub, drowned, and others were framed as if it were suicide. You may wonder why the government hasn't merely torn the house down. I'm not sure. It seems like the money they make from this place keeps it running longer.
- They will not force themselves into the room during the night. Unless you interact with them, they will not attack or come your way. Any food or snacks prepared is fully safe and encouraged to consume. Make sure you set dishes and silverware in the sink. They'll be cleaned when you're not working. Staying outside of the house is your best chance to live. Follow these rules.

Please bare with me because I will be ranting about a lot of things lol. So I have been friends with this girl ashley for about 3 years now and for the past year she's honestly been annoying me pretty badly. I don't want to be as close of friends with her but it's hard because I am literally her only friend, and I have introduced her to pretty much everyone she meets/talks to. There are many things that she does that have honestly really pissed me off. First off I must add I go to college in a completely different state and she doesn't go to school and still lives at home. So, i do get a break from her which is relieving. Anyways, since being friends with her she has copied pretty much everything I do and what I wear. She buys the same shoes as me and the same exact clothes as me, and the same makeup and literally everything. I get really agitated about that stuff because I like being my own person and buying things that I love but it's annoying when everytime she just goes out of her way and buys the same exact things. Like today we went to buy bathing suits and I was like "oh i just got these two yesterday" and she immediately picked them both up and bought them. Let me know if that's like a normal thing but it pisses me off to the core. Another thing that pisses me off is she just invited herself to my house all of the time - like every single day - and sleeps over every day too, and doesn't even ask. I need my own space and alone time but it's pretty hard considering she just invites herself and I just feel awkward and rude making up excuses and stuff. Also i must add she is the messiest person ever and everytime she is over she completely wrecks my room and I have to clean up after her. Since she stays over all of the time I always make her food as well (srsly feel like i'm this girls mother). she always puts her straightener on my carpet even though I have told her 500 times not to do that because it completely RUINS my carpet, not to mention it's literally a fire hazard lol. My carpet is ruined because of her. She is also the type to make me look bad and feel awkward whenever we are with boys..... which is actually so frustrating to me and immature in my opinion. As mentioned before, I go to school in another state everytime I come home she brings up people from our highschools drama (alot having to do with my ex bf and his new gf) which everytime i show no interest in caring or wanting to know anything because i have grown up and don't even live there half the time anymore, plus i have a new boyfriend. I think she does that on purpose to like make me feel bad about myself or something because i don't know what other reason it would be.... another thing, as mentioned before she doesn't go to school and still lives in our hometown but every single time someone asks her where she goes to school, she says the same school that I go to and tells people she's in the same sorority as me. I went to this school to get away from all those people I went to HS with and to start a new fresh chapter in my life, and she is constantly telling me how she wants to move in the same apartment as me even though she literally isn't even planning on going to school there. I just feel like I can't catch a break. And she also takes so many of my clothes and I haven't seen them since. She is crazy messy and alotttt of my clothes are just scattered around somewhere in her house and I never get them back. She tried selling a pair of my shoes on poshmark- only reason she took the post down was because I saw it and was like wtf???? So she gave me them back, and then the next day of course she sleeps over my house and she just puts them on and wears them to work???? And here we are back to square one, I don't have them again lol. She also tells her ex bf like stuff that I tell her but over exaggerates it and makes me look bad, so now I feel like i can't even tell her anything. Ugh. I just don't want to be friends with this girl anymore but really don't know what to do as I am literally her only friend and have been there through it all, I just don't feel the same. Please let me know your thoughts and what I should do about this and lmk if i'm being dramatic lol.
-forgot to add that i'm simply a convenience to her because when she had a boyfriend she never had time for me or ever asked to hang, and when we did he would always have to be there 🙄

Anyone in the South Sac area have a carpet steam cleaner I could borrow for a couple of hours? I have one large living room rug to clean.

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So me and my roommate moved into a new apartment about three months ago. The landlords only halfway cleaned and inspected the unit as they were trying to get me in as quick as possible as a favor to me (they were the landlords at my previous apartment with my ex as well). So i dont really blame them for this situation. However in their haste, they neglected to do alot of work in one room in particular. This third bedroom smells extremely overwhelmingly of cat litter and piss. The people who lived here before us had four cats and had moved about eight weeks before the end of their lease. My personal theory was they left the cats here until the lease was up and that this particular room was their living quarters.
Its bad. Its like really fucking bad. We've done everything. Steam cleaning only makes it worse. Some days i dont notice it at all, some days its so bad i can smell it down the hall. We want to convert this room into a recording studio but neither of us can stand to be in here for more than an hour and we have to really want that hour. Im 100 percent sure its long since soaked through the carpet and into the wood underneath. There has to be something that can be done short of ripping it all out. Something neither us, the property manager, or the owner woupd be happy about. Either with getting rid of the smell or making it bareble enough to drum along to a whole album and not just the singles.

Living in Massachusetts and re-signed a lease from July 2022-July 2023. Original signing the year prior required payment for first, last, and security . Having been responsible tenants, we informed the landlord that a family apartment had become available and wanted to break the lease and move out early, the landlord gave a verbal affirmation that we would be allowed to leave without issue. The landlord was notified March 1st that we would be moving out on April 1st, and to apply our last months rent to April. Listings were created online for the apartment, and we moved out April 1st 2023. The landlord did not return what was left of the security deposit until June 3rd 2023.
When leaving the apartment, great care was taken to return the property to it's original state. The carpets were cleaned twice with a rug cleaner. The walls , baseboards, and cabinets were all color matched and painted. When returning the remainder of the security deposit, receipts were included, but some things are strange. Discrepancies with materials and labor like:

A paper receipt stating that one item was purchased, with a hand written "x3" and increased cost.
An entirely hand written receipt with items that do not have matching copies
Charges for replacement of a broken fan dome that happened in 2022.
Removal of foreign substances on stove top and repainting
Claim that baseboards had to be cleaned.

We have a video of the apartment that shows these things were cleaned before vacating.
The returned security deposit also contained a statement from the bank, showing the account was held at a Rhode Island branch of a bank, and only dated the statement 2022-2023 despite the fact that we lived there the year prior.
Do we have any options here seeing that we broke the lease, or do we just have to take the loss of the security deposit?

From maybe 8 years ago this hate for chinise government and now his people is been growing inside me, I work in one of the most luxury casinos in Las Vegas as a guest room Attendant, and when we clean room of Chinese poeple........ They destroy the rooms, drop food in the carpets, the beds, the bathrooms are completely obliterated, the smell of garlic and onion is brutal, when you have to do a stay over clean, they ask you " YOU CHANGE SHEETS, VACUUM MOOP SWEEP AND DUST EVERYTHING NOW, YOU WORK FOR ME TODAY" And when they leave, holy shit, they leave the rooms like a homeless was living there for months. And they are cheap motherfuckers, they dont tip at all, if you find a penny is because they probably didnt realize it drop from their pockets, Besides Europeans, clean, organized and polite and they usually tip between 20 to 50 dollars, I hate chinise in general now

Maybe this is something you hear a lot coming from a teenager. Parents will always have issues, but I think the issues my parents have are beyond saving. My dad (48M) works from home half the week and in the office the other half. My mom (46F) works the same schedule, only opposite so when my dad is in the office, my mom is at home. My mom works hard and then after has to take care of the house, errands, the kids, driving people around, and so much more. My dad works. But then he complains or he makes snarky comments. He doesn’t help with dropping the kids off at school or picking them up from activities. Only sometimes, like once every week just so he has something to hold over my mom’s head so she doesn’t yell at him. My dad just complains and yells at her and is an overall hypocrite. He will find a wet spot on the carpet and instead of cleaning it up, he’ll leave it and go drink and watch TV then yell at my mom later for not seeing the stain before him and cleaning it up. Sometimes when he drinks, he gets scarily angry and will yell at anyone or anything for breathing. The moment you hear sarcastic “You know I love that…” you know you push your mind far away from here as to not bear the weight of his anger. And my mom, my hardworking mom, always takes the brunt of it. He’s usually yelling at her for the dishes or that she spends too much time at work. One time, he yelled at her for her car being a mess because she drives 4 kids around everyday. Instead of helping her clean it up, he picked things out of the car seat pockets and threw them at her head. Sometimes I try arguing with him to help my mom but it never ends well and i always feel helpless. My mom claims she’s alright and I shouldnt be mad at him. I just want my mama to be happy. I want her to be with a man that values her and loves her for how hardworking and great she is. But she refuses to leave my dad, just because my siblings are so young and she claims he’s not that bad. I know its bad to say it, but i wouldn’t care if she as cheating on him, in fact, I would have a stable peace of mind knowing she chose to be with someone she actually likes, and hopefully someone who cherishes her. I know dhe would never leave him, and it makes me so angry that she’s going to spend the rest of her life this way. I love my dad but he treats her like absolute shit. he doesn’t acknowledge anything she does and only yells and yells. I just wish my mom would be happy.

I just bought a car and the previous owner has used some sort of air freshner that has a weird sweet smell that is giving my entire family a bad ass headache.
I've put a new cabin filter in, i've let it air out. I've whiped down the interior with miguire cleaner and used miguire carpet cleaner. Still hasn't gotten the smell out. I then used a carpet shampooer on the carpet again and it still hasn't fully got the smell out.
Any other ideas on how to get this smell out? I've cleaned every nook and cranny on this car and can't get the smell it. It's a 2016 and there's no stains or sign of any spills that would source the smell.

My dog Brick is my soulmate im pretty sure. Hes a Lab Husky Mix I adopted as a puppy 2 years ago while my husband was stationed overseas to help me cope with the loneliness and he hasn't left my side since outside of road trips where is wasn't feasible to take him. He sleeps with me, stays at my feet when I eat, and is all around a really great dog. Loves people and is super gentle with small animals and kids. He was technically the first one to find out I was pregnant. (He was right outside the bathroom when I took the test and I had a mild freak out so he forced his way in and let me hold him.) And has been super duper gentle with me the whole time.
The problems started when my husband and I took a trip home for the holidays. We were gone for about 3 weeks, and usually when we take long trips like that we have a trusted friend stay in our house to pet sit. Brick has never had any issues prior to this trip. Usually our friends who stay with him love having him around so much and enjoy not having to stay in the barracks that they dont even ask for payment and will come take him on walks even after we return. Hes like a mascot at this point.
Before we left everything appeared to be fine. We did what we usually do, invite our sitter over a few times for dinner leading up to our trip to show him where all of the pet stuff is and help Brick get used to this new person and make sure they seem to get along if its their first time, like it was this guys. He works with my husband and I had met him plenty of times before and he seemed to be a good fit with our animals. We go on our trip, he gives us updates every few days, and this is where I notice behavior changes before we even got back.
Our sitter texted my husband that Brick had Dug out of the back yard and escaped, running around the neighborhood away from him until a neighbor managed to grab him by the collar and catch him. Brick has never, and I mean never, escaped a yard before. Hes never even dug or tried to get out , and Hes very good at recall. Not a single time has he run from me unless we were playing and if I called him back to me he always came and he does the same for most everyone. I figured He didnt know this sitter and chalked it up to him thinking they were playing, even though I knew he had never ever done that with any other person hes stayed with before.
When we got back My house was Destroyed. Partially from Brick chewing and tearing apart the living room, but also the housesitter being disgusting. There were beer cans and trash everywhere, He had been sleeping on the couch even though we had a guest room and when I cleared the blankets from the couch to try and get my house back in order I found Vomit, whether it was from Brick or the house sitter Im not sure but it was obvious it had been there awhile. The toilets had Urine in them like he hadnt been flushing them after he peed and for whatever reason he had moved the coffee table right up against the couch and had been using it like a bedside table even though we had couch side tables? I knew the guy was a little messy but holy crap you know? I was raised to respect peoples spaces and leave them cleaner than they were when I got there. I even strip the linens from beds when I stay in hotels to make it easier on housekeepers, so I was absolutely appalled at how dirty my house was. My husband and i went up to our guest room to strip the sheets, and when we walked in we were blasted with an overwhelming stale urine smell. When I turned to light on, My white Bed skirt was Soaked in dog pee. It was so bad the only foreseeable way I can see that happening is if he locked Brick in that room for hours at a time, possibly even days without letting him out. My carpets are permanently stained because of it. But honestly Im not mad about the mess at this point, im worried about my dog.
What I cant let slide is what Im worried he did to my dog. Ever since weve gotten back Brick has been a nervous wreck and insanely depressed. He tears the house apart if we leave for too long, pees all over the floors and poops on the carpet (Only when we aren't home, if were home he will come get us like he usually does, but its like all his housetraining goes out the window if were gone for more than 20 minutes) But the most concerning thing ive noticed is if he is laying down and something touches him he will jump up and growl like hes been hurt or like hes scared. Hes not injured, we made sure to get him checked out because I was worried maybe he had broken a bone or maybe sprained something but he has a clean bill of health. in the past few weeks hes been playing with my husband again and being energetic, but for a really long time it seemed like he just slept the whole day and night away and only got up and around if we were feeding him or taking him on walks. Another weird detail I noticed is that the extra bag of Dog food hadn't been opened while we were gone, and based on how much was still in the other one when we left it definitely should've been at least open and partially used. He didn't seem like he had lost a ton of weight, and I know that I had told the sitter that sometimes we cook the pets portions or meals when we have dinner and breakfast (all pet safe versions, like pancake mix thats specifically for dogs or unseasoned steak) So I thought maybe he had been cooking for Brick mostly instead of using the dog food, or possibly had bought a new bag while we were gone. His eating habits haven changed so I dont think he was starving him, but the food bag feels like an important detail for some reason.
It didn't cross my mind that maybe the sitter had done something to him (I can be a bit too trusting sometimes, seeing the best in people when I really shouldn't. Its a problem) until he came over for dinner one night with another one of my husbands friends. With the friend he had never met Brick was his usual sociable self. Playing with him and letting him rub his belly and just having a grand old time. But when the Sitter came in? Brick Hid behind me and wouldn't move away until he left. I even reached down to pet him and could feel him trembling like he was scared. I had never seen him do that before and It broke my heart to see. The sitter made a comment along the lines of "You know me, why are you hiding buddy?" and it clicked for me. He had only been acting like this since our trip home, and I had considered maybe he had some separation anxiety because we were gone for so long but even then, we had gone on longer trips without him and always came back to the same pup we had before, and he had never Ever Cowered away from anyone in the 2 years ive had him.
I kept my mouth shut during dinner and kept an eye on my dog, not letting anyone near him and letting him stay at my side while I was cooking when I usually dont let him in the kitchen because I can be clumsy and dont want to spill something on him. But while we were eating Sitter made a comment about how Brick slept at his feet the first few nights and then stopped.
Something about that comment makes me think he had been kicking my dog when he was at his feet, on purpose or not I dont care. I might be jumping to conclusions about that but ever since we got back Brick will jump away from us and yelp like hes been hurt if hes touched even lightly while hes laying down. I almost have to announce that Im about to pet him if hes laying down. Ive spoken with my husband about this, and weve come to the same conclusion that something definitely happened to my dog while we were gone and it has something to do with Sitter.
Ive made it clear hes not to be around our home anymore and Husband agrees, and that from now on we will stick with a sitter who we know loves Brick and who Brick trusts, and I will be asking for more updates from them that include pictures and what they did that day. But for now Im going to be taking him with us and doing road trips instead of flying until I can trust someone with him again. Weve been making strides towards getting him back to where he was. We recently got another puppy for my husband ( He wanted a dog that could bond with him like I was bonded to Brick) and since then weve seen some pretty serious improvements in his mood. They play together and I can tell hes getting his energy back. His eyes dont look as sad and just a few days ago he had the Zoomies in the back yard. He doesn't freak out when we touch him as much, but he still jerks away like hes scared. As far as the housetraining goes, We think its improved but honestly we cant tell the puppy mess apart from his sometimes so who knows on that front.
The amount of guilt I feel is overbearing. I love my dog, hes the one who got me through one of the hardest times in my life with my Husband being gone. Hes like my best friend and the idea that I Put him in a situation where he was mistreated and possibly abused has made me burst into tears. I dont understand how anyone could look at this kind hearted and sweet dog and be cruel to him in any capacity, hes such a fun and loving goofball. I feel like such a failure of a pet parent.

Selling it because I am upgrading to z system.
Fully Tested and Works Properly. Front and rear element is clean, free from scratch, damage or fungus. Also including the 95mm UV filter.
Here are the images :https://imgur.com/a/ScBW2p2
Asking for $850 + shipping OBO, or $830 local near Orlando, FL

Selling it because I am upgrading to z system.
Fully Tested and Works Properly. Front and rear element is clean, free from scratch, damage or fungus. Also including the 95mm UV filter.
Here is the images and sample pictures. https://imgur.com/a/SRSiYi8
Asking for $850 + shipping OBO, or $830 local in Orlando, FL

I just need to vent…
I had a woman contact me on rover asking me to lower my prices to sit her 3 dogs because they are “very well behaved.” Getting there to meet them we didn’t go in her house but she met me in the yard and we took them for a quick walk (her holding 2 me 1) I could tell they werent leash trained well but whatever, it’s a 400 dollar stay and they had a backyard.
Flash forward to me getting there and arriving in the house for the first time and I’m hit with an overpowering smell. Like the worst kinds of pet smell. Everything smelled bad even the “clean” towels were nauseating. Then I see a cat and text her about it as they weren’t mentioned or on the profile. They also had 2 cats I was not aware of.
The dogs are not even trained let alone well trained. They didn’t respond to basic sit commands and jumped up on me all at once whenever I came in (these were 60-70 pound dogs). One of them was not housebroken.
I called rover since I was on the verge of telling the person I couldn’t sleep there because of the smell just to give them a statement about the condition of the house should any issues come up later.
There were food pieces in the sink and on the counter (they were on a week trip)
I opened the windows in the guest room and sprayed air freshener every 30 seconds and made it through.
At the end of my stays I always do really in-depth cleaning (full wipe down, mirrors, toilets, appliances, sweep, vacuum, swiffer) and I did a little extra here with the vacuum and swiffering (moving furniture) because of how gross the house was.
I even got soap scum stains out of the sink and shower with hot water.
I locked up an hour before they got home and texted that I’d left.
When they got back the only thing she texted me was asking if I’d left a window open upstairs. I’d been confused about the guest room when I first got there (she said it was the room with the door open) and the bedroom had a door open. I was opening ALLLLL the freaking windows cuz of the smell so in that time when I was figuring it out I probably did. She hasn’t texted me anything else.
Then I get an email from rover that she’s putting in a damaged property claim to them about their carpet saying the dog had peed on it. YES the dog had peed on it, like 10 times bc she ISNT HOUSEBROKEN. And I know it’s a regular occurrence from the 3 different “carpet urine destroyer” “carpet pet stain remover” “carpet pet odor remover” that were all just out in the living room. Also the rug was yellow and you couldn’t even see the pee in it, I’d know because it would also be on the floor and i just blotch around with a paper towel regularly to see if there was. AND I vacuumed that carpet WELL so I know for a fact when I left it was looking spiffy and she probably peed on it the hour from when I was gone to when they arrived. As she seems to do a lot. Because she isn’t housebroken.
I also only found out because they put in the issue to rover and I got an email, she didn’t even reach out to me.
I gave my story, rover says any comp would be from them and I don’t have to give a refund since im in charge of giving refunds.
It was suchhhh a bad job and it makes me so mad that this is how they end it.
You’re fucking welcome.
Never again.