4 of 5 days off - almost gone. Holiday - gone. Time to go to work - I just feel like this 5-day off-time has literally flown by me. It doesn’t seem like yesterday that it started. I think sometimes we all get FAR too busy in life - well I do anyway. I find I have to force myself to slow down, take a breather, relax, not be so pushed to get “things” done.
However, that is not today. I have gone full-blown in scrubbing every crook and nanny in both of the bathrooms. The main/tenant bathroom was absolutely DISGUSTING. I let it go on purpose. It’s always - entertainment if nothing else - to watch people using a facility such as that, day in and day out - and literally not lift a finger to help keep it clean. The tub was full of sludge. The waste basket was over-flowing on the floor. The toilet? I clean it 3 times a week - but you wouldn’t know it - a visitor to my house might think it hadn’t been cleaned in weeks. If I cleaned it daily, it would probably be good, but I am not that motivated to clean up after human pigs.
I’ve spent 2 and a half hours just working on bathrooms - and I still have half an hour’s worth left to go. I am determined to get it done today so I can focus on other things in the cleaning world tomorrow. So, why don’t I demand tenants to help clean up after themselves? To grab a bottle of the cleaner and a sponge and start scrubbing? My back’s against the wall, simply put. Losing tenants is losing money - could equal losing the house. I’m VERY motivated to keep this house for the present time. My interest rate has now been reduced and - look, if you walk away from a house and it’s accompanying loan, when do you think you will EVER be able to qualify to get into one again? Your credit score will have to be near-perfect and you will have to have a large down payment as lenders are reverting back to the “old ways” - the ways that seemed to work very well for a hundred years.
However, if I had had to have perfect credit, I wouldn’t BE in a house right now. Anyway, demanding people that obviously do not want to do that kind of stuff - do it - well, it’s not worth trying. I have 3 paying tenants right now. They are all paying either on time or very close to on time. I know at least one of them is leaving - though his date has yet to be set. He has guaranteed income at the beginning of every month. The pizza delivery dude says nothing about leaving - yet he’s hardly ever here- excepting the last 2 days. Yes, he has actually spent 2 days in a row in his bedroom. I don’t hear anything coming out of there, I imagine him sleeping to be honest.
Umm, well, I’m busy trying to get a 12X16 “shed”. They want $800 for it, I wrote them an email about it. I didn’t make an offer, but I intend on offering half of that. It’s a wood structure with a door and a window. It’s not complete - but the lumber alone probably cost them more than that to put it together. It needs siding installed - a thing I can do easily and it appears to need shingles on the roof - I have never done it but I have watched them doing it and it looks relatively easy. If I could get it, I have a place for it on the property and I will convert it to a living quarters and - yes - rent it out at $400 per month. I assure you I can rent out a detached building that has no-one listening to anything a person or person’s might be doing inside of it. THAT structure I would require utilities extra. It’s very alluring to people that are renting to have a separate structure. I have read those requests untold times on Craigslist.
I don’t have it yet, I don’t even know if it’s available, it might be gone for all I know - but I have my doubts.
I am also going to start looking for a front loader washer, my electric bill would come down considerably if I could find a set of those types of washers and dryers. I’m on 2 quests right now, the first one is iffy and if I don’t get it, no big deal. It’s just that the work is almost totally done on that structure and really - it’s dimensions are perfect. Getting it over here - might be a chore, dunno about that, don’t have any idea what they propose about moving it - but I’m sure I could get the semi to move it. Umm, I just don’t know how tall it is - the semi trailer deck is at about 5 feet, allowing 8 and a half feet worth of heighth.
Anyway, that’s my Saturday. Today that would be. That doesn’t include a few things I want to get done outisde, either.
I also heard from my mom today - she said the my brother’s wife’s mother passed away this morning. She lives - well lived - in Chicago burbs. Whatta time of year for something like to happen. I mean, anytime is bad, but we spent yesterday over there enjoying Christmas - it was a good time really - and then come to hear this the next morning.
Life. I’ve never quite understood why it has to be so terribly difficult. I mean, I have read what the Bible has to say about it - God never promised a rose garden, not at all, actually. He only promises to help us through it. Going through all kinds of stuff throughout your life span supposedly makes you a stronger, wiser person - of this I will agree - but - does it have to be a CONTINUAL stream of it? Are there no lapses to be found? I’m not complaining to God, I’m basically just lamenting.
So I better stop.
And I better stop writing, too, cause I need to get back to work.
G’day.
ben
