Paying Atlanta

We received a nasty notice from the City claiming we are very behind in a payment for the elevator and boiler inspection at our Grove condo.

Number one, the idiots at that dept. seem to insist on sending the bill to a person who was the president of our board about 10 years ago, so it takes time to have the bill arrive at the right destination since that person is no longer around.

Secondly, I called and I had to listen to a non-stop recording giving out phone numbers to the various inspectors, who have nothing to do with the billing. Their job is to just make everyone's life impossible. They have no clue about billing. At the end of the recording the person on the tape says hit "0" for live assistance. I did that and was cut off. Typical City of Miami.

Of course when you do call the numbers they suggest, you get recordings and the inspectors never return your phone calls. They all have this Napolean complex where they actually think they are big shots when in reality they are big shits.

Then the coup de gras: Look at the billing address on this invoice above (you can click on it to see it larger). It appears that when we pay our bills to the City, some company in Atlanta, GA handles them. So we are paying someone outside the City to handle this -- taking jobs away from locals? Interesting. And sickening.