I know I haven’t been posting much on this journal as I thought I would after starting to take a reprieve from KCL (which may become permanent), but I really like my Blogger blog, plus I imported the entire KCL blog to this one. Postings here will be sporadic at best.
Anyway, a while ago I received a call from yet another interested party for the room. This is another female. I am not in the position right now to simply declare that I want males in here only considering the problems I have had with some of the females in here in the past. Money talks at this point.
Her employer is less than 2 miles from myhouse – she apparently needs a place that is within walking distance. Well, one could also take the bus if so inclined (and I would definitely be so-inclined when the temp is 115 degrees in the shade if I were in such position). The guy that just moved out at least left the room pretty clean, albeit he didn’t leave any money – he owes me $500.
It is seriously doubtful that I will ever see a penny of that money, the dude left without even a goodbye. I wasn’t being shitty about it – though I easily could have considering the cirumstances of his departure without any kind of forewarning/notice. I’m not even thinking about court action – the guy has no money, what am I going to do, take his junky car?
So, right now, I am waiting for the arrival of this person – if they do, indeed show up – to see about renting the room. There is a guy that called this morning who is also interested. First-come, first-served, please have money in-hand, thank you. There are already well over 50 ads for rooms for rent since the one I posted this morning. Mine has a different allure to it, though.
Many – well almost all – of these ads give a monthly rate for the rental. You read the ad and they are tacking on anywhere from $75 to $150 more per month in utility fees. Mine is a flat price and I think that is why I get people in here relatively quickly. It is equivalent or a little less than what others are asking – but I don’t make people pay a percentage of utilities. I would like to do that in order to get people to think about their electic use, but I can’t really afford to lose potential renters right now. There are not a lot of replies – in fact only 2 so far – so it kinda makes me feel like I am going in the right direction with my pricing.
Changing the subject, I was just out there looking at where I want to put the ponds. I must say that I have just provided myself a LOT of work. Landscaping rock will have to be moved from where ithe ponds will be at – I don’t want to waste it. I will have to shovel the dirt directly into a wheelbarrow and take it to where I am going to dump it.
Well, where I’m going to dump it also has landscaping rock, so that is going to have to be moved as well. In other words, there is going to be a lot of shoveling going on here. At least these ponds are relatively small – 2 feet deep at most, whereas another pond I was looking at is almost 4 feet deep – that would have been QUITE the digging project.
To further exacerbate the problem, it is going to get warm today – somewhere in the 90′s. A sweat fest on top of everything else, I’m not even sure I’m going to start this project today or not. I probably will, I am just trying to talk myself out of it as I have a lot of other things I could be doing as well.
Well, for now, I am going to wait another 20 or so minutes for this person to come. If they don’t, I am going to assume another Craigslist no-show and go about the business at hand – at home.
G’day.
ben
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