A Rough Couple of Weeks
I’ve been out for a while. It’s been a rough couple of weeks.
My tenants of three solid years graduated from college and moved out, and I had exactly 9 days to go through the property, fix what needed fixin’ and clean the crap out of just about everything in sight.
Fortunately for me, the girls that moved out did a fairly decent job of getting all their stuff out on time and doing some general cleaning before turning in their keys, and for that I am extremely grateful. It could have been a whole lot worse, and I didn’t bat an eye when I gave them their entire deposit back.
Then there was the bathroom. The old shower surround was probably 20 years old, or at least it looked it, and was yellow, brittle and moldy. It had to go.
Unfortunately the plaster wall behind the surround didn’t want to stick around either, and it ended up going too.
Then there was the tub itself. It was definitely original and the enamel had worn off to the point where it was rusting and streaking down the tub. If it was going to be replaced, now was the time to do it…
Long story short, I muscled the old cast iron tub out of the bathroom, taking about 3 other plaster walls with it, and replaced it with a new, modern tub and shower surround.
I’d rather not do that again.
Luckily I got the placed refreshed and cleaned up just in time for the new guys to move in.
And now I’m back to collecting rent.
I’ll have some more of the saga in the coming days, but now it’s time to relax for a while… and hope stuff doesn’t break… any more than already has…
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