Thursday, April 13, 2023

 Wrote a lengthy post yesterday and forgot to post it.

Oh well.

I spent near 4 solid hours yesterday pushing the mower - well it's self-propelled but it has to be lifted up to get over the humps - and picking up trash.  Mostly at site 7 where those people left abruptly overnight.  I'm guessing their friend will leave once his rent is due in a couple of days as well.  I only say that because I texted him asking if he was taking off with his friends or sticking around?  No reply.  That could mean anything, I suppose, but he's usually pretty quick to respond to texts.

I'm getting a mix of people asking about lots available and asking if I rent RV's with the lots?  No RV's, sorry.  Even if I did, I wouldn't sayit would be completely reasonable price. At least $600 per month. I think I previously said $550 but that's not enough.  There is too much risk involved with renting one out and potentially having them trash the place.  

And anyway, there is a huge shortage of rental accommodations in my area and in 2025, it's only going to get worse. Far worse. Well I take that back, there is a very large, luxury apartment complex being built on the other side of town. They are definitely spending some money on that thing, millions of dollars.  It will help alleviate the problem but it won't solve it completely.  

If I had more money sitting in my bank accounts, I would definitely buy an RV and give it a whirl.  But I don't and right now, I've got 4 lots sitting empty.  One being filled on Friday - hopefully - and I don't know if those people will come back that needed  to leave the day after they moved in because their electricity wasn't working correctly.

I'm just glad the thing didn't burn down and toast other trailers with it. Descriptions of it when it came in were that it was dirty and had pine needles all over it.  So it was sitting for a while, not being used. Yeah, you have to maintain those things or they go south - and can go south pretty quickly.  

Whatever the case, I am going to try and build that other shed today and get my stuff out of the main shed.  I don't particularly care for the idea of having to carry the tools back and forth every day, but to be able to set up the laundry table and get the place looking decent, Ima need to move all of that stuff out of there.  I may even have time to install that keypad handle for the door.  If I can get those done today, I will go ahead and try to get the sewer pipe leveled in the trench and start backfilling that stuff in.  

After that, just get those sheets of drywall up on the bathroom wall so I can say it's ready to use.  There isn't a lot to go to get that part done and start advertising it, but the sewer pipe definitely needs to be adjusted so everything as actually flowing, not sitting inside of pipes stagnating.  

Anyway, I have a ride allegedly coming at 8:30, about 35 minutes from now.  We'll see if that works out.  I have to be home in time today for the kids, but that isn't until 3:30.  It's plenty of time to get stuff done over there. I think it took 4 hours to put that other shed together and it wasn't any fun because the wind was blowing and trying to blow over the tin sheets standing up, only being held in place by a couple of screws at the bottom. It's just the way the thing is put together.  

Well, I probably should get offa here. I need to get a roast in the crock pot and get my stuff ready to go. I'm definitely not going over there without taking some food and ice.  Temps will only get up to 74 today, but I still get pretty thirsty after working for a while over there.  

There is still so much to do before I could actually ... the shed is finished! Oh well, soon I can say it's ready to use, just not done completely lol.  People are using that washer/dryer set like crazy and that's only a few of the people in the park.  Once I can get that keypad in, I can let everyone know it's ready for use.  But, I'm getting my stuff out of there first and getting a padlock for the door.  And I"m putting the shed in view of my eyes over there, on the side of the big shed instead of behind it.  The other one had to go behind it because it has the water heater inside of it.

Well, offa here.

G'day. 

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