Some of the stuff we had to throw out had been in that basement longer than we have been here. There was decayed bug carcases everywhere.. *shudders* BUT the basement is now 95% empty as far as storage goes… the remaining 5% needs to go up to the attic… and that I am not looking forward to since the attic and basement are three narrow, steep flights of stairs apart. I am still freaked out about carrying things on the stairs. It has been almost 4 years since I took the tumble and broke my leg and yet I still get a little pang when I have to go up to the attic.. or the second floor on the back staircase. Course the ones here are nothing like the ones I fell on. Those were really steep.

So the TO-DO-before-we-put-the-house-on-the-market list is a little shorter… but not by much since we didn’t finish the ceiling in the bathroom..that will be finished this weekend, BUT it was a lot better looking in there than we thought. There are two layers above the drop ceiling and we were thinking we would have to rip everything out to the studs because of the water leak… but we only had to do a small section. The original ceiling? Green. Why green? I don’t get it. One top of that is some kind of tile board… kind of like a combination of particle board and paper. Then the drop ceiling. Course since you can’t even give rental property away around here these days, we have plenty of time to do what we need to do.

The list for today?
* Gotta mop the bathroom floor again. There is a fine layer of dust in there that I can’t seem to get up. I prefer to be barefoot and hate walking on it like that. YUK!
* Install the CO Detector in the basement. Don’t know why we never put that in, gotta get that in as it is the law wink
* Laundry.. the never ending battle… might let The Drama Queen do hers so I can get out of doing mine Heh!
* Call and close 2 dormant credit card accounts. Don’t need them, trying to keep our credit report nice and neat
* Work out
* Relax

I think that is it… feels strange not to have a ton more to do… I have that “I’m forgetting something” feeling. I hate that


 

 
Fodder From SSG
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You forgot to relax.  smile

So you guys are selling the house?  I must have missed that post.

Posted on 08/31 at 09:13 PM

 
Fodder From The Fool
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Heh What else is new?! Yeah the plan was to stay here three years building equity and then turn around and sell and buy a single family only us home. This being a landlord thing is not all that much fun. If this wasn’t such a sucky neighborhood we would boot the tenants and stick it out… maybe even convert back to a one family, which would then bring down the value of the house though.. So for now we will make little improvements where we can and hopefully with that thing going on here (and going in just a couple miles up the street) there will be a big rush on rental properties and we can get what we need to get..

Posted on 09/01 at 11:41 AM

 
Fodder From Susan
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ahhh - I too was wondering about the house for sale thing too.

Posted on 09/02 at 07:51 AM

 
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