I am a bad blogger

I can't believe I am such a bad blogger. Life has been crazy the past few weeks. We finally got the delinquent tenant to pay rent. We actually felt kinda sorry for her because we knew she was working a lot of overtime just to make sure she got caught up on rent.

We have been very busy for the past few weeks. We have officially moved out of the dew! We actually have already been in the new house for about 3 weeks! We love it so far! Although it rained for the first time the other day, and it also rained in our living room. So that is a top priority to get fixed. But Dad's in town right now, so I we are going to talk him into fixing the leaky sky light.

When we purchased all of our properties they were all rented out, so we had never gotten to experience finding a new renter. And let me tell you we weren't missing too much. The weekend before we moved out of our half of the dew the tenant in side B moved out. We actually got extremely lucky with finding a renter for that side. The old tenant moved out on a Tuesday and the new tenant moved in on Sunday. The only reason there was any lag time was because we decided to paint the apartment before she moved in. But the really funny part about this new renter is she is totally OCD, even more so than me!!! We almost didn't let her rent the apartment because I was scared she was going to drive me batty. She acted liked she was purchasing the apartment. And we were wayyyyy too nice and pretty much fixed everything she asked for except for tearing down the wallpaper in the bathroom. That's were I drew the line, but I told her she could go ahead and hang new boarder is she wanted to.

But so far we still have not been able to find a renter for our old unit. I think that is just out of most people's price range. But I know the very first time we show it to someone who can afford it, they will take it. We did a lot of work to it when we lived there.

On another note, we are thinking about turning the two small duplexes in East Ridge over to a Property Manager. They have just become too much. We are both working full time jobs and just don't always have the time to go meet repairmen at the duplexes. We had a major flea problem a few weeks ago, and actually lost a renter because of it. There were two Korean guys living in the unit and they worked for a Korean church here in town, there had always been a major language barrier between us. When we first bought the duplexes we contacted everyone to let them to start sending the rent to us. Well the first month the dudes sent the rent to the old owners, so at the end of that month Davy decided to call the guy to remind him where to send the rent, the conversation went something like this, "Hi this is Davy, I am the new owner of the apartment you are renting." Korean Dude, "I told lady to send the rent, did you get the rent?" Davy says, "Yes, the old owners sent me the rent, but I was just calling to remind you to send the rent to me this month." Korean Dude, "You got the rent! Why you keep calling me?!?" So that pretty much ended that conversation. The guys called an reported the fleas THREE months after they first started having a problems. We had terminix out there within 24hours of them reporting the problem. Terminix pretty much said that it would take at least 2 weeks for all the fleas to die. The renter just couldn't handle it. Davy talked to him on several occasions and the guy would just go on and on about how bad the fleas were. So we were basically sick of hearing it since we were doing everything we could on our side to get rid of them, so we allowed them to break the contract and leave the apartment. So we have another empty unit there. But it is no big deal, hopefully we will get it rented soon. I don't think the new PM will take it, until it is rented.

I can't wait to see how this new PM does. I have read a bunch of stories about people hating their PMs. So we will see...