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Thread #131845 Message #2987939
Posted By: wysiwyg
16-Sep-10 - 09:30 AM
Thread Name: BS: Declutter & Accountability Sept 2010
Subject: RE: BS: Declutter & Accountability Sept 2010
Animaterra,
(BTW, most of the Room stuff here and upthread is written in "I" mode because by agreement it's my job, not Hardi's, and because I'm focusing on my end of the job HERE while I focus on the tenant's end when I meet with THEM-- it's a boundary thing.)
The ad is working for me while I finish work on the Room, and the processes I set in place to deal with the responses are also working-- my cell is the number I ran, and I programmed the outbound greeting to request email to send back the description and an application.
The first call came in last night right after classes and dinner-- the same pattern my aquatic ads had, when people pick up their Wednesday mail or the ad-paper on display at stores and restaurants.
The first run of calls with this paper are usually from folks who have made up their minds to go look, on purpose, for something they want. The paper's casual browsers (and there are many) look at it in the morning over their coffee.
The first caller was young, well-spoken, female, and businesslike-- just what I had "attracted"/prayed and worked towards. The purposeful calls will come again this evening. I'm logging them all as they come in, and prioritizing. (My Presbytera ears can usually discern the difference between a need and a want.)
I have decided that the only "major" appliance supplied will be a brand-new inexpensive nukerator (which I will buy out of the deposit). This is because the wiring up there will take only two heavy-drawing items at a time-- such as the oil rad on one wall and either the nukerator, briefly, OR a laptop on the other. (A smart kollidge kid oughtta be able to make that work-- since lappies haz badderies.) The oil rad will be on an appropriately heavy extension cord rated by the mfr as safe, so they can move it closer to their preferred sitting area, dressing area, etc. The nukerator, ditto.
I'm also purchasing outlet security items (think baby-proofing stuff) to keep the lines set the way we set them. The rest of the "purchases" I listed the other day, I was able to find around the house-- keeping my costs as low as possible.
Those two heavy-draws will run on circuits that stay on when the light-switch kills everything else. I will let the tenant know that the lines are all set up for max usage, and that adding anything will just pop a circuit-breaker Hardi and I may not be able to flip back for them till bedtime. Example: you can try to blowdry your hair and run the nukerator at the same time, but it may not work and it will zap the heater circuit, too.
Our landlord's heating tech is in the basement at the moment so I hope to wake up to a "warm" house (66 degrees) in the morning. I like knowing that our ancient gas furnace's vagaries (main house) will not affect the tenant, and that their electric heat supplemented by a gas wall-heater not on the main furnace line will keep them warm all winter.
I'm off to the day's outside chores (ours and the Room's), punctuated by trips up and down to finish taking down anything up there that does not stay up there.
Hardi did not have any minutes for me last night, so tonight I lay rugs (and gain pain), which will involve moving in ways my still-rehabbing bones and muscles do not handle well, to say the least. Tho my butt muscles have stopped hurting due to the stair-climbs, and the knees are improving from it as well.
So I will appreciate any GOOD thoughts and encouragement from MudBuds.
I hope to get a feedback note today from friend Mmario.
~Susan