First off, just want to say thank you to everyone for all the great birthday wishes, including BB who offered up a beautiful cyber-space birthday cake in the form of a Mack truck! Totally cool!
I did not go to work today - my company gives it’s employees their birthday off, which is also totally cool. However, I have an open room so I spent the last 3 plus hours in getting the old tenant’s stuff out of there, cleaning it and cleaning the rest of the house as well. The guy that was in there went to CA and never returned - over 2 weeks ago. He gave me permission (in writing) to go ahead and re-rent the room as the reason he isn’t coming back right away is that he’s - totally broke.
Well, I feel for the man, but I’m going to go broke, too, if I don’t get someone else in there. I didn’t actually demand that he either pay up or let me retake the room, I really just let him make the offer to retake the room - he is a cool guy and I really don’t want to start an altercation with him. So, that’s all good and his stuff is safe and secure until he comes back for it. Meanwhile, I have a guy coming over in about 40 minutes, another one just called asking about the room, a person called last night and I have several emails from individuals interested in the room as well. Hopefully, out of all of that, at least one of them will work out.
Maybe doesn’t sound like the greatest thing to be doing on one’s birthday, but priorities are priorities. And anyway, I’m done with most of the cleaning, I can take it easy after this dude shows up - if he does, indeed, show up - and do whatever I want with the rest of the day. I am firmly set on having a glass of cognac and a very fine cigar that I picked up from a friend. That will be later, thanks.
Oh, and the other tenant finally showed up. He was 2 weeks behind as of today on his rent. I figured he was having problems, he offered for one week and said he would have to make “payments” on the other $100. Well, I decided to give him a break and let him off the hook for the other $100 - a one-time deal - but, as I have found out, it’s much easier to keep a tenant and work with them than it is to have to keep finding new tenants. If he doesn’t make his $100 next week, then, perhaps, the issue is going to have to be forced. I was also thinking of offering him the smaller, cheaper room if that would help him any - but he has a lot of stuff and I don’t know that all of that would fit into the smaller room.
I was going to ask my manager if I could perhaps use his pickup - the company pickup that is - to get some materials for the trailer project today, but I have decided against it. I have a potential tenant coming and if he doesn’t work out, another one right behind him. I just don’t have the time for it, and really, a person should give themselves some kind of break on their birthday if at all possible, aye?
Plus I don’t have any food in the house - well hardly any - I am not counting my food storage stuff - so I need to get some grocery shopping done as well.
Well, anyway, I have to finish a few things before this guy shows up.
Have a great day!
ben
