July 7th, 2010 | Author: trancejen
This weekend marks our last garage/moving sale; and I, for one, cannot wait, because watching people Christian me down to a dollar for a fifty dollar dress is something that I dearly look forward to, especially when I am sitting in the hot, blazing sun.
Yesterday I purged my closet and dresser drawers and came up with over a hundred items that I don’t wear or haven’t worn in years. I had no idea I was such a clothing packrat. My first instinct would be to sell this stuff on eBay and actually get fair prices, but I decided to just say “fuck it” and chuck everything into the garage sale.
EBay is, for the moment, too much damned work.
I also gleaned a pretty hefty amount of stuff for Amvets, and that is also where we’ll be donating the stuff that doesn’t sell during the sale.
As always, this is a family affair, and my aunts will be over in the wee hours of the morning with their reading glasses and cash boxes in hand, and we will eat donuts while hanging clotheslines and talk family gossip while shouting out various prices to neighbors.
It would be sort of fun if I didn’t feel I was being screwed so badly.
In other news, we are also trying to find out everything we can about becoming landlords.
I am moving into this with much fear and trepidation, because this particular hood seems notorious for trashing property that isn’t theirs, based on what I have seen.
I think that strong credit checks are in order, and also current home inspections, lie detector tests, and regular visits from the Orkin man.
You never know about people and bugs.
In still other news, the guy I went out with seems to have flaked in that there has been no mention of another date.
We were supposed to go out again, and then allegedly got stuck at work and allegedly forgot his phone with my number in it and allegedly could not call me to report that he couldn’t make it. He apologized, but now things seem to have cooled off, leading me to believe that the entire story he concocted was indeed Boolsheet.
So, there you have it.
I believe that the problem with online dating is that there is such a huge pool of willing women out there that men begin to believe we are expendable and start to treat us as such.
It’s incredibly sucky.
In still other news, nothing has been said outright, but it looks as if I have won the Cat Wars and will be taking Skittles with me during the move. Score one for Jen.
Happy Wednesday.
Yeah on winning the cat wars!
One piece of imparted knowledge from a person who used to work at a property management company. Check their references! A lot of people don’t cause its too much work, but do it. Credit doesn’t mean too much in this economy, but you want to look for criminal activity and evictions.
I also don’t know your state laws, but here in Washington you have to give 24 hours notice before you do an inspection. Try using google or Bing to lookup the landlord tenant laws in your state.
I’d add to what owl says and charge a hefty security deposit plus first and last months rent. That much money upfront will likely scare some less desireables away. I sent you a message on FB with info I found.
i had a yardsale a few weeks ago. it was 100 degrees and no shade, so we were basically giving stuff away. people still wanted discounts. no, $2 is not too much to pay for china service for 4. 25 cents for an unopened lockset is not going to break your bank. no, i will not take $5 for an $800 dinette set from williams-sonoma, $50 is more than fair! i ended up selling it for $45!
i had more junk at home, so i took back what i didn’t sell, to go in the sale i will have at my house when it cools off.
my friend put up a curb alert on freecycle. 3 minutes later, people came in swarms- they were driving around all day getting their email sent to their phones! they were rude, asked too many questions and blocked me in the driveway. shit, just take it, it’s free! cheap dirty bastards!
i ended up with about $80, a bad sunburn and a worse attitude. i wish you much financial success, overcast sky but no rain, a gentle breeze and people who don’t bug the fuck out of you.
Have you thought about selling some of the nicer clothes on Craigslist? We just had a yard sale a few weeks ago and I swore I’d never have another one. I practically GAVE so much stuff away because I am too nice and too lazy (bad combination).
I’m a pseudo-landlord (it’s my almost-huby’s property, but I count in dire straights). If you ever want to talk shop, as it were, toss me a line