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Tuesday, September 13, 2022
I am getting frustrated with the surveyor. Everyone with whom I have spoken about surveyors all say this should be finished by now. I emailed them yesterday asking for a date when this will be finished. I also emailed Jim to get a status on the HELOC. Anton, the other loan officer, calls me every…
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Monday, September 12
I sent an email to the surveyor requesting a date for completion of the project. They said they would keep me in the loop by giving periodic updates, but I have to ask for those updates and then they take days to reply. The architect is anxious to start and so am I. I started…
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Thursday, September 8
I emailed the surveyor yesterday morning for a new update. No response. I don’t think I mentioned it before but we have a section 8 tenant at our primary property. I have decided that I will never rent to another government assisted tenant again. The tenant quality could be better. She came home drunk once…
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Wednesday, September 7
I didn’t hear anything from Jim yesterday regarding the HELOC. I don’t need that to close right away, so I’m good. We have an existing HELOC with a 50k limit which we’ve been using to pay the surveyor and architects. I feel like the surveying company is taking its sweet time. I’ve been keeping a…
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Tuesday, September 6
This morning I continued the routine of a 5:00AM wake up and then read “Commercial…” and “Confessions…”. The textbook is really dry as textbooks usually are, but there is good information. The subject this morning was the “export sector” and the “service sector”. I had heard “service sector” or “service jobs” mentioned before but I…
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Monday, September 5
The guinea pig tenant sent a text yesterday, “Quick question…didn’t you ask, and we pay last months rent when we moved over to the new side?”. He was sorely mistaken. My response was, “No, you got a free month of rent when you moved over to the new side.”. In California, if a landlord asks…
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Saturday, September 3
I am trying to start a new habit of finishing my reading for the day and writing a blog post first thing in the morning. Two days down. I read more “Commercial…” and “Confessions…” today. I have started chapter 3 in “Commerical…”, the title of which is Central Place Theory and the System of Cities.…
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Friday, September 2
I have not written in a week because my wife and I attended Overland Expo in Colorado. It’s an outdoor convention for a specific type of camper called an overlander. It was fun. I have been trying to get the process going with loan. I have been provided a link which is supposed to display…
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Wednesday, August 24, 2022
I’ve made it a point to read at least four pages per day of “Commercial Real Estate Analysis and Investment”. It’s a big text book. I figure knowledge is power and reading this book will give me knowlege.
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Tuesday, August 23, 2022
I got all the information to Jim this morning. He then asked me for some clarification on when we moved to our current residence. He asked if we put money into the unit we moved out of but we didn’t. The next-door tenants moved to our unit and we remodeled their disgusting unit. I can’t…
Winning the Rat Race 