Perhaps your father would be on-board with that toe in the water of REI. 

The powers that be go into emergency mode, trying to counteract the deflation via pumping Pumping PUMPING out $ through various mechanisms. 

I feel like I'm a fish out of water here a bit.

A pattern has started, and now he' testing the waters to see what he can get away with in the long run, which means you no longer have authority in the relationship.

I regularly buy 80-120 year old buildings and the biggest expense I’ve had that was not planned for was putting in a new larger hot water heater in a location where the old one wasn’t quite keeping up.

We leave a bottle of water per guest & a little treat bag.

Prices at the pump are way down, but the CPI shows prices up 4.1%.Really?

And better than an actual beachbecause the water seems much cleaner, much better looking and you have more control.

No heat, no water, no power are NOT immediate emergencies.So, our emergency system allows caller to leave a vm, which is transcribed to text and sent to whomever is on call.

I'm just glad I was able to point it out to my clients before proceeding further, which could have led all parties into a sticky legal situation and me in hot water, like you mentioned.