> Could you elaborate on what went wrong? Was that type of failure a new occurrence with the person? Thanks, good question. Yes it was a totally new circumsta

> Could you elaborate on what went wrong? Was that type of failure a new occurrence with the person? Thanks, good question. Yes it was a totally new circumstance with a friend I'd known for a year who has been minding my dog. To thank her, I invited her to spend a week at my beach house. The electricians couldn't schedule an appointment for 10 days, so I told her it would be vacant until then, and invited her to go relax with her dog. She's a fashion designer with a great visual aesthetic. Immediately upon arrival she was full of ideas to improve the place. Those vertical blinds are lame - you need new curtains in the lounge. The bedroom curtains are tired - replace them. That carpet in the stairs is so old - rip it up and just have bare concrete. But I only had 10 days before peak season. I told her I liked her ideas, but I'd like to keep the scope small so I can rent the place out after the electricians finish in 10 days. We can revisit the other ideas in March or April, I suggested. 3 weeks later, she'd taken over the place, which was unrentable. She'd ripped up the carpet without my permission, and left hundreds of nails sticking out of the concrete. When I told her how surprised I was, she said we'd talked about that, get over it. The new Italian leather lounge was thus stuck in the downstairs garage, because it wasn't safe to move it up the stairs. That wasn't a problem for her. She ripped out the vertical blinds in the living room and dining room, but only half completed the curtains, then stopped and started a dozen other tasks e.g. fairy lights for the deck. The bedroom curtains didn't work. They hadn't been gathered correctly, and were tied off too short so they didn't close the gap. She threw out the kitchen curtains, but the blind she replaced them with didn't fit the space, so she cut the ends off. Or, one of the ends. The other one she left sticking out. The hanging hooks weren't in the right place for the three chord pulleys, so she cut one pulley off and now the blind bends in the middle. For every one of these issues, my friend's response was to start a new initiative! It took me 2 weeks non-stop to remake the curtains after she left. This is a task I know she could have completed in a day, because I've seen her with a sewing machine and she is brilliant. But she didn't get to this in the context of the renovation in the 3 weeks she was there. When she left she blamed me for everything and said our relationship was now irreversibly damaged.