Talk About Brutal!!!

[piemma]

Larry, I also feel you pain. I have been working for 19 (today will be 20) days straight straightening out my rental property after I leased it for 1 year to the dirtiest pigs I have ever met. I am also working my regular job so it has been 14 to 16 hour days. I did get out in the boat yesterday morning for an hour. NADA.

[Crafty Angler]

Originally Posted by piemma

Larry, I also feel you pain. I have been working for 19 (today will be 20) days straight straightening out my rental property after I leased it for 1 year to the dirtiest pigs I have ever met. I am also working my regular job so it has been 14 to 16 hour days. I did get out in the boat yesterday morning for an hour. NADA.

Welcome to my world, Paul....

My wife and I own the house in Newport that's been in our family since 1913 - built in 1840, a block from the harbor, 3 stories high...kinda like a large wooden boat

Last year I redid 2 of the apartments, tile work, paint, plastering - this year is the Year of the Exterior - paint from peak down, repair the porches and just for added enjoyment, we're hard-scaping the yard to 'cut down on maintenance'....

Oh yeah, the roof is getting done this season too...

While I'm resting I work on the apartment we're in now that used to be our workspace and offices......if I want to take a break I go to work at my job

With any luck I'll get to enjoy it for a while before the missus has to call O'Neill's Funeral Home with a pick-up order...

And somewhere in the middle of the whole catastrophe I try to fish once in a while too...hmmmm, I wonder if it's too early in the day to start drinking heavily...

Well, I suppose if you can't be handsome, at least be handy...

[Raven]

tie everything down..... in case you flip it

[piemma]

Chuck, I will never complain again!

[Crafty Angler]

Originally Posted by piemma

Chuck, I will never complain again!

Nah, ya got good reason - rental property is a constant headache - and we've had some experiences in the past that haven't been a whole lot of fun

Don't know about your situation but living in the same building with your tenants is a whole other thing - we use rental agents but that's far from a guarantee on who you get as renters

It was a lot easier when we had the business, our apartment above and did a B&B in season and basically had the house to ourselves and the pooches 9 months a year - but it's a luxury we can't afford any more given the economy

Hey, ya gotta do what ya gotta do - and there's a lot of folks with a lot worse things to grouse about these days the way things are