OT - Snow Removal from Student Rental House Driveway

[TimNDansMom]

Does anyone know of someone who goes around plowing out driveways?

I was at Dan's student rental house in London today and their driveway is snowed in since none of the students has a car. I ended up parking on a side street. The house is on Cheapside near Waterloo.

His entrance is at the back of the house so he has to trudge through a fair bit of deep snow to get to the sidewalk, which I guess the city plows. The landlord doesn't provide driveway shovelling and there's no snow shovel provided with the house, not that the students would use it!

I'm not sure if this would be too costly but I thought I'd look into it.

 

[TimNDansMom]

Just bringing this back to the first page.

 

[grover]

well..my first thought was that it would be cheaper to buy them shovels and tell them to hop to it-part of learning to take care of your living space! but i guess they may need some movitivation other than boots full of snow right..lol!!!

if your going to pay someone to do it..why not pay one of the kids living there? maybe they would like to make a few bucks? there is no incentive like cold hard cash..lol

 

[Ham Ham]

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[roscoepc1]

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[Mickey1Fan]

My son was also in London in a rental property. They had to shovel their own walk and driveway.

Check with the landlord to find out who clears snow.

 

[mermaid&cinderella]

These are young kids with alot of hot air, give them a shovel

 

[TimNDansMom]

Oh, they don't mind trudging through the snow! And believe me I thought about taking a snow shovel over. It would be nice if the landlord at least provided one, as he has it in the lease that he will cut the grass but not shovel the driveway out.

It's me that would like to see it plowed out mainly, so I don't have to park on a side street if I drop by to take him grocery shopping and then have to lug them to the house.

Well, it's probably not going to happen.

 

[maryliz]

I don't think you're going to convince them to do it, even if you gave them the shovel. They're probably looking at all their neighbours out there that have to shovel and are thinking "thank goodness we don't have a car, so we don't have to do that. Poor schmucks ... look at 'em out there!"

Or you could blackmail him ... give him a shovel, and if you know you're coming over, tell him you expect him to have it shovelled ... or NO groceries! LOL

And remember, this white stuff, you and I can forget about it next week. Safe travels.

 

[Boncho]

Or you could blackmail him ... give him a shovel, and if you know you're coming over, tell him you expect him to have it shovelled ... or NO groceries! LOL.

 

[MikeJ]

Our son is at Brock, and although St. Catharines doesn't have nearly as much snow as we have in London, they have to shovel their own snow. The property management company looks after the place in summer, but not winter. At least they've been provided with a shovel, and as one of Dan's roommates has a car they have to keep the driveway clear.

I was down there last week and asked why they didn't keep the front steps clear. He said they never use the front door - they always go in the side. When I asked him if the mail carrier also used the side door you could see the little light bulb go on. I'll find out Sunday if they're clearing the front steps...

- Mike

 

[SaraMc]

When I went to Mac, we lived in a house off campus and we all shovelled the driveway and sidewalk. Like Ham Ham, with Beer. there was no way to get in the house if we didnt and our landlord supplied us with shovels.

 

[TimNDansMom]

Dan's housemates are girls and I doubt they will want to shovel the snow with him. Anyone dropping by has to find parking on the side street too or maybe they don't get many visitors.

In his last house that he shared with 4 guys for 3 years, there were 2 or 3 cars and the driveway never got to the stage this one is now. I think their landlord came over a couple of times with a snow blower to help them too. He was a great landlord!

The city plows have pushed a lot of snow into the bottom of the driveway, so that's going to be hard to remove, I think. But maybe next time I'm over I'll take a couple of shovels and get Dan out to help shovel.

MaryLiz, here's hoping by the time we both get back, there's been a thaw! Safe travels too!

MikeJ, the girls use the front entrance at Dan's house but they just trudge through any new snow. I wonder if the mail carrier looks at the house and wonders if he/she should even deliver their mail!!!

It might have been helpful if their landlord at least provided a snow shovel! There's a small garden shovel, that looks like it's been used to mix concrete, that's all. I actually used that to cut a path to the back door, when bringing Dan home at Christmas with his luggage, computer etc.

 

[puppyears]

Gee, just a thought, but what about safety? What if -God forbid- an emergency vehicle had to go down that driveway and then navigate back out?
What if somebody slipped, fell and suffered serious injuries as a result of neglecting the "24 hour shovel law" we hear so much about?
I, for one, would check out who is actually LIABLE for the snow removal, then ensure it gets done! Maybe it is because I work in the safety field, not sure.
like I said, just a thought....

 

[TimNDansMom]

Good point about liability, I'll be sure to tell Dan that. As far as the 24 hour shovel law, is that on private property? The sidewalk along the street is plowed, I imagine the city does that.