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[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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A guy from here has MULTIPLE rentals. He has written a book on how to have someone evicted in 20 days. But you have to do all the steps exactly how he shows. I do not know the name of the book. If interested I will try and contact him.

 

[Rainwolf]

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yup just got home.

 

[Rainwolf]

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I can't wait! they are awesome!

 

[Ogress]

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A guy from here has MULTIPLE rentals. He has written a book on how to have someone evicted in 20 days. But you have to do all the steps exactly how he shows. I do not know the name of the book. If interested I will try and contact him.

After DH and I got married, I decided to rent my place out. I got totally hosed. I rented it to a man who had just gotten divorced. The first 10 months or so went fine, but then he started paying later and later and less and less, always with an excuse that more was to come as soon as he closed some deal at work or his divorce settlement came or whatever. Then for 2 months I did not get a payment at all. He called and said on was coming, but it never came. I knocked on the door multiple times, no answer. I put a notice on the door that I was going to enter the premesis. When I went in all of his furniture was there, the fridge and cabinets were full of food, but he had no clothes there, no toothbrush , no personal stuff, nothing. Just a bunch of cheap (but clean) furniture. Even worse, one of the bedrooms had been painted BRIGHT PINK, Neon! When he painted he had mixed the paint on the kitchen counter and dripped it all over the hall, stair and bedroom carpet. My carpet was off-white with pink splashes that would not come out. I don't think the guy owned a vacuum either. The house was only 4 years old, but I had to completely re-carpet the place. I called an attorney to find out if I could just call a charity to remove his stuff. I couldn't. I had to put it in storage for a month or so and place adds in the paper to try and contact him to let him know where his stuff was. I was 7 months pregnant at the time, so I had to hire someone to remove everything. He had a waterbed upstairs that no one could figure out how he fit it through the doorway. It had to be drained and cut into sections to be removed. Everything else I had to pay to store. I never heard from the guy. The person who owned the storage place took pity on me. when I went to go rent a truck from him to take all the stuff to the goodwill, he told me that if I would donate it all to his church that he would handle cleaning the place out and he'd return a couple weeks rent. The next couple I rented the place to were super nice, always paid their rent on time, and stayed there for a few years until the husband, who was only in his mid 20's,got cancer. They moved to be closer to where he was getting treatment. They burnned so many candles all the time that the walls were coated with wax! I had to have the place seal coated and painted. I had been in their place a few times while they were living there, and they always had 30 or more candles burning, huge platters of candles on nearly every flat surface. I always wondered if all that wax had anything to do with the cancer. I felt so terrible for the couple. I couldn't charge them for the damage. I don't make a very good landlord, so I sold the place after that. At least I made $60,000 on the sale; not too shabby. I owned it for 9 years.

 

[jbear]

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A guy from here has MULTIPLE rentals. He has written a book on how to have someone evicted in 20 days. But you have to do all the steps exactly how he shows. I do not know the name of the book. If interested I will try and contact him.

After DH and I got married, I decided to rent my place out. I got totally hosed. I rented it to a man who had just gotten divorced. The first 10 months or so went fine, but then he started paying later and later and less and less, always with an excuse that more was to come as soon as he closed some deal at work or his divorce settlement came or whatever. Then for 2 months I did not get a payment at all. He called and said on was coming, but it never came. I knocked on the door multiple times, no answer. I put a notice on the door that I was going to enter the premesis. When I went in all of his furniture was there, the fridge and cabinets were full of food, but he had no clothes there, no toothbrush , no personal stuff, nothing. Just a bunch of cheap (but clean) furniture. Even worse, one of the bedrooms had been painted BRIGHT PINK, Neon! When he painted he had mixed the paint on the kitchen counter and dripped it all over the hall, stair and bedroom carpet. My carpet was off-white with pink splashes that would not come out. I don't think the guy owned a vacuum either. The house was only 4 years old, but I had to completely re-carpet the place. I called an attorney to find out if I could just call a charity to remove his stuff. I couldn't. I had to put it in storage for a month or so and place adds in the paper to try and contact him to let him know where his stuff was. I was 7 months pregnant at the time, so I had to hire someone to remove everything. He had a waterbed upstairs that no one could figure out how he fit it through the doorway. It had to be drained and cut into sections to be removed. Everything else I had to pay to store. I never heard from the guy. The person who owned the storage place took pity on me. when I went to go rent a truck from him to take all the stuff to the goodwill, he told me that if I would donate it all to his church that he would handle cleaning the place out and he'd return a couple weeks rent. The next couple I rented the place to were super nice, always paid their rent on time, and stayed there for a few years until the husband, who was only in his mid 20's,got cancer. They moved to be closer to where he was getting treatment. They burnned so many candles all the time that the walls were coated with wax! I had to have the place seal coated and painted. I had been in their place a few times while they were living there, and they always had 30 or more candles burning, huge platters of candles on nearly every flat surface. I always wondered if all that wax had anything to do with the cancer. I felt so terrible for the couple. I couldn't charge them for the damage. I don't make a very good landlord, so I sold the place after that. At least I made $60,000 on the sale; not too shabby. I owned it for 9 years.

i have been renting it for about 4 years and have had really great tenants, BUT I always have run back ground checks, got good references.. blah blah blah.. I HATE doing that--listing it, meeting people, etc etc. I got lazy on this last couple and did not run a check, they had one reference--her mom. It is totally my fault I am having this issue. I hired a management company who is working with their eviction people. I have with much relief stepped out of the picture. It costs, but I just can't do it, I am not mean enough.

I heard about a guy that had someone squatting in this shed out back of his property, and he couldn't evict him either, so he burned the shed down. Similar to the moat. What is with our system that we can't even take care of our own properties?? jeeze. So frustrating.

Ogress, I would SO sell this place, because it is pure stress trying to hang onto it, but I just can't right now.

 

[VelvettFog]

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Do'h!

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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I know exactly how that is! DH has been promising for years to build me a greenhouse. Then I ended hiring someone to build a snow-sturdy roof for the dog kennel and am using that, but I needed benches. DH said he could do that. It took him less than an hour using available scraps, eye-balled everything, measured nothing; just a 10' by 2' frame on uneven legs at wonky angles, one support midway down, and hardware cloth scraps for the top - not only is it leaning and wobbly, but the wire sags, so the plant pots tip over! Ihave plywood scraps lying on top to keep my plants upright. and when people come over and want to see the chickens, he so proudly points out that he built me this nice bench for my plants! (Maybe I'll take some photos .... think opposite quality of work than the beautiful stuff posted by VF.)

One sunny day when he is not home, I am going to flip the thing over and put in a bunch of supports and saw the legs so they are all the same length.

But he's my DH and I love him anyways. If he made it quality, I'd have no story about it to amuse myself with.

But if he did a very nice job like VF then ya would always be wanting him to make stuff. That would take his time that he wants to use for ??? He has a good plan !!! And it is working too.

LOL Except VF is supposed to be making me some since DH will be too busy this summer and refuses to make any more. The large coop he built is awesome. He's blaming everything on the frame not being squared because it's from my play house when I was growing up (my dad built it!)

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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I know exactly how that is! DH has been promising for years to build me a greenhouse. Then I ended hiring someone to build a snow-sturdy roof for the dog kennel and am using that, but I needed benches. DH said he could do that. It took him less than an hour using available scraps, eye-balled everything, measured nothing; just a 10' by 2' frame on uneven legs at wonky angles, one support midway down, and hardware cloth scraps for the top - not only is it leaning and wobbly, but the wire sags, so the plant pots tip over! Ihave plywood scraps lying on top to keep my plants upright. and when people come over and want to see the chickens, he so proudly points out that he built me this nice bench for my plants! (Maybe I'll take some photos .... think opposite quality of work than the beautiful stuff posted by VF.)

One sunny day when he is not home, I am going to flip the thing over and put in a bunch of supports and saw the legs so they are all the same length.

But he's my DH and I love him anyways. If he made it quality, I'd have no story about it to amuse myself with.

When we first moved to this property we had no outbuildings for animals. I wanted milk goats and up to this time DH had never built anything but stupid me, I'm a visual person and am self taught at building. I look at other structures and see how they are put together and mimic it on what I'm building. Not a pro and I make mistakes but try to make them cute and add value to the property rather than devalue it. Anyway, I asked DH to build a little goat barn assuming he at least knew as much as me and hopefully more. I'm not going into a bunch of detail about this barn since it's pretty much undescribable but he built it on those cement piers above the ground and the barn had no floor so imagine the draft and the rain rolling in through the bottom. The door was cut odd severe angles because the frame was at an angle, the roof leaked horribly etc etc. Well, I got rid of the goats after about 6 months because I couldn't stand the barn. Just not livable even for goats and since I am a visual person and can't stand anything crooked my eyes would cross everytime I looked at it. While I was inside milking goats I was always in a really bad mood. I decided to get chickens and wanted to build the coop where the goat barn was so we decided rather than go through the work to tear it down we just lit it on fire and raked up a pile of nails. Then we tried building things together and realized thats not going to work either. Now whenever I need anything built I just do it myself. I have to say though he is learning and getting much better. We just think opposite. I'm more of a perfectionist and take my time to do things right, he doesn't care and just wants to be done. The faster the better.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

OK I know this is short notice and I may not get much help but.... If in a job interview and they ask you "In one word describe yourself" How would you respond. Last time this happened to me I said "Wealthy" They just got blank looks then I explained. "I don't have money but I have things that money can't buy. I have knowledge, skills, experience and lots of good friends. Money can't buy any of that." Well I am guessing by the looks on those GRUMPSES (you know what I mean) faces and the fact that I didn't get the job that my answer wasn't what they wanted to hear.
For today's interview I was told the attire is dress pants (that will be Wranglers) Button up shirt (lets see 2 choices western or button hickory) and dress shoes ( another tough choice western boots or romeos). The real tough one for me is do I wear a clean hat and seem disrespectful or do I remove the hat and risk the glare blinding the interviewer??

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Creative.
Compassionate
Helpful
Caring
Injenutive
Trustworthy
(in a hurry can't think of some of the real good words). BTW - NO hat. Take the chace with the glare.

Responsible

I gotta get ready to take kids to swim team.....wish I could come up with more...got one on the end of my tongue but can't think of the word...meaning hard working, etc.

Dependable