Market Rent Increases... Finally!
Saturday, January 23
This week we sent out letters to four tenants adjusting their rent.This is the first time we’ve raised rent since we started investing in 2010. Market rents in our low income area have not budged in all that time; they were often lower than what we were charging. Which is depressing for an inve...
Insects, Rodents, and Pests, oh my!
Friday, January 15
One of our duplexes has a rat problem on one side and a roach problem on the other.One side we believe to be tenant cause, the other side is a mystery.One side the tenant is working with us, the other side the tenant is a hot head who threatened to sue u for not providing a habitable unit.Some th...
BOOK REVIEW - Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
Friday, January 08
One of my recent non-fiction reads is Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen. The book addresses the balance between getting things done and doing them well and savoring life, a balance that often seems pretty elusive to me.The program has three aspects: 1. captu...
Reflecting on 2015 Goals
Friday, January 01
Happy New Years!A time for reflection and goal setting.I am thinking about not setting goals for 2016. This year will bring tremendous change, with us empty nesting, huge changes at my “real” job, and possibly a move. I’m thinking it might be wise to just roll with it rather than stressing myse...
In Local News
Thursday, December 24
Merry Christmas all!Since my last post, a pretty significant wind storm tore through my town. The city lost many old trees, uprooted in the winds. At one of our rentals, we experienced a roof leak and a neighboring roof blew onto our carport roof (photo). Our handyman was busy helping with hou...
Screaming Toward Christmas
Saturday, December 19
Starting to ponder what 2016 goals should be. But first, oodles of Christmas gifts left to wrap… Got Subway gift cards and Vista Print Christmas cards mailed to our tenants this morning.This week in rental news… Our basement is taking on water with the high rains we’ve had in the Pacific Northwe...