All Entries Tagged With: "Rental Property"

Photo of the Day 12.31.2009

I took this photo of this little bird, which I think is a goldfinch,  at my Grandparents house on Sunday. 
When I randomly chose to post this photo, I realized, that it was 5 years today that I was moving into my first house.  The house that I lovingly refer to as “Goldfinch.”  
5 years and about a million [...]

Why have roommates?

Today, I am going to address a question that has been asked to us a million times.
Why do we have roommates?
Why share your home?  Why would you want to do that?  Why would you want to have to clean up after someone else or their pets?  Why?
It really may not make any sense [...]

It takes a strong stomach to own and manage rental property. . .

We recently had some rental turnover,  thankfully our former tenants cleaned the house and left everything in pretty good shape.
But like most people, they forgot to clean under the refrigerator. . .
When I pulled out the refrigerator I found what looked like a litter of Pomeranian puppies glued to the floor with maple [...]

Sport thinks he is going for a ride. . .

We spent the afternoon at our duplex rental, cleaning it up to be re-rented.  When we got home, as we were unloading the Explorer, Sport ran out the backdoor and sat down  in the passenger seat. It was all we could  do to get him to come back in the house.

He thought he was going [...]