I'm over this "adulting" thing

It wasn’t in the agreement but the tenant had asked for it prior to applying, and he was the best applicant from the pool of applications we received, so I said ok we will get a new shed if that will get us a good tenant. The house had been broken into whilst vacant and I was just sick of our copper and things being stolen so just didn’t want to wait any longer. Pm made me feel like it was necessary but I wasn’t happy when I received a request to remove and take away the old wooden shed. Pm said that it would be fair considering the tenant has lost yard space by getting the shed. I wont be removing/disposing of the old one, whilst ugly, its functional (although missing a door) and its not dangerous or anything. I feel like my pm is working for the tenant not me. Had a request to add in a sliding door where there is currently a window last week! That won’t be happening either. The current requests are actually reasonable- drain blockage and a mould issue in a sink cupboard which had a leak previously which I have to sort out. Just over it

 

Feels like a charity!

 

Remember.....maintenance, not improvements!

 

Sounds like you may need to get a new PM. If there was an existing shed, I'd have put a door on it & that would be it! No nice shiny new shed & no sliding doors either. Once you give in to tenants like this, it's often a never ending story.

 

OMG - so what do you do?

 

Fumed & bitched to Hubby......until I was a bit calmer, then drafted a strongly worded email. I waited until 6.00am yesterday morning & phoned them, nicely, telling them that I wasn't very happy & that I was about to send an email.

I do have a reasonably good relationship with the owner of the Business, but the person in Accounts is a total B, (and she's the one that charged the extra shipping)....so I wanted to make sure that I spoke to the owner BEFORE I sent the email.

 

For what it's worth... I was helmetless just before Christmas and out of all the helmets available at Kmart, I chose to buy a grey army coloured helmet. And I'm female.
You never know, khaki could be popular.

 

It could, but when I order size XXS in shiny hot pink, and I get matt khaki & grey in it's place, and most of my sales are pretty pink skates, for little girls, it doesn't seem likely. Please also note that my product is a brand name, and costs probably double the price of the Kmart stock.

 

What a bummer. So skates aren't bought for boys so much? Anyway, khaki would be good for little boys or tough little girls who like army style design. Camouflage.

Oh well. I hope you get your pink helmets quickly. But see what happens if you try to sell khaki too. Little girls may like it, and parents of the kids on your website often have sons too. They bike, scooter, skateboard, unicycle, climb, etc etc....... lots of uses for helmets - for both genders

 

@skater, am I doing something wrong?
I cannot find helmets on your website. I assumed it would be under protection, couldn't find any there. So then I tried hardware.
Then I tried the search function. No luck.

 

For some reason, at the moment the trend is that girls skate more than boys do.......or parents are more willing to buy them for boys than they are girls. I don't understand it, but I know that sales of traditional 'girl' type colours outsell 'boy' type colours more than four times as much.

We will definitely list them for sale, and hope we are wrong.

Maybe parents tend to wrap their little girls in cotton wool, and perceive they will be safer in their own gear than using rentals.

No, you're not doing anything wrong. They are not loaded up yet. Hubby has made a start on them, but they are not live yet. We are waiting on a response from the supplier first, but damn Easter has gotten in the way. Because they are in USA, the earliest I'm expecting an answer will be Wednesday morning.

 

This millennial reckons baby boomers have had it 'too easy"

This explains why we are so tired.

 

Wow! That IS a big thumb.

 

Nailing on skirting boards, painting and hanging toilet roll holders ... still adulting ... oh, and made Toblerone brownies ('cause I wasn't sacrificing the Lindt) so maybe also some kid hiding in there

 

I assume the shed is air conditioned. To provide a shed that's not air conditioned would be a crime against humanity.

 

Lizzie

I remember whenever you set it up and purchased the property. Hope this doesn’t cause you too much stress and can be remedied!

 

Life is hard. Its normal to have days where you feel its difficulties more than others.

What do you do to take care of yourself on those days?

 

Some people.

Not everyone makes mountains out of mole hills.

I think everyone needs challenges. But there are good challenges and very bad challenges.

 

Eat to much sugar - which I am determined to stop as have put on 20kg in the last 5 years

I think it was just a culmination things - an extended time of banging one's head against the wall to no advantage - not helped by buying into the blue chip stockmarket a couple of weeks back - at what would historically be a good buy price - and then it all going to custard over a stoopid tariff war. The old "things outside your control" walnut.

Anyhow - all one can do is plod along and do the best with the information at hand