Flip Your Blog

I’ve been trying to get back into the poasting habit of late here and on some other blogs of mine, and have been making a few cosmetic changes here and there, including adding a dedicated page for various renovation projects and some other odds and ends. They’re definitely a work in progress and basically added randomly as I have time, but I wanted to get down some general info on some common projects that crop up, whether you’re flipping a house or working on your own home. (And yeah, I’m also trying to suck up to Lord Google as far as boosting search engine traffic, so there’s that as well, as far as tailoring content to commonly searched on home improvement projects.)

Not much to report on as far as any actual REI news. Our tenant moved out of House #1 a few days ago, so we’re trying to get it rented. We couldn’t have asked for a better tenant, as not only did he pay rent a week in advance, like clockwork, but the house is actually cleaner than when he moved in, and he left various curtains that he bought, a toilet seat cover, a nicer shower curtain and rod than what was in the house, etc. Definitely sad to see him go but we did bump up the rent by $50 and have already had a few calls, so hopefully we’ll get it occupied soon, with a little extra cash in pocket.

I spent much of the weekend trying to get the new garage organized, with about 90% success. The biggest problem is that assorted stuff that needs to go to our storage unit can’t, as that thing is packed to the gills with crap, so I need to break down and spend a day or two de-cluttering and organzing the storage unit, in order to finish up clearing out the garage. Which probably will mean shifting more crap from the storage unit to the garage. And thus the endless never-ending crap cycle is perpetuated.

On the bright side, I went from having 0 tape measures to having 9 tape measures (one of which is still in its packaging, which amused me to no end, as far as losing all my tape measures and breaking down and buying a new one, then somehow losing it). I also found a brand new, never-used tool belt, for keeping track of such things as tape measures. And so it goes.