Dicken’s once wrote that “This is the best of times, this is the worst of times” and truer words have seldom been spoken. My life has been fantastic in many respects this year, but the rental situation with my latest tenant is horrific. Even worse,…
Tag: Rental property
Rental Horror Story #2: Three Strikes and You’re Out
I seem to be whiffing lately when it comes to the quality of my tenants. For those who don’t remember, after a scary night with my last roommate’s girlfriend, he decided to move out and I needed to get new tenants for basement mother-in-law suite.…
Book Review: Why the Rich Are Getting Richer by Robert Kiyosaki
Why the Rich are Getting Richer is the latest book in the Rich Dad, Poor Dad series, and Kiyosaki continues giving readers nuggets of wisdom distilled from decades of thought about personal finance. Nuggets is an apt metaphor however, because like real gold the reader…
Rental Horror Story #1: Roommate’s Angry Drunken Girlfriend
Well, I just had the worst night of my life. For the last few weeks we’ve sped up work on the house to get it ready in time for when my roommate’s girlfriend came up from Georgia. She arrived in the early afternoon and things…
Bathroom Remodeling – Framing and Electrical
I’ve mentioned before that I’ve been working on remodeling my bathroom downstairs to increase the rent of my mother in law suit. Alas, like all good projects we hit a snag! First, we lost the battle with the city inspector and had to call the…
Bathroom Remodeling – Permits and Plumbing
It’s been a bit of work, but I’m making more progress on the bathroom remodel. After we hauled the concrete out of the basement I went over to city hall to pull a permit for installing the new plumbing and fixtures in the bathroom…and instead…
Bathroom Remodeling – Demolition
Hi all, I haven’t written much lately because the long-discussed basement bathroom is finally underway. I was waiting for ages to hear back from the plumber on his availability when suddenly he was free to do the work the very next weekend. The starting price was…