It's been a day

I went over to the Park to collect some rents.  

Well, I went to buy heaters first. Ollie's had some decent ones and I had a 15% off coupon for "one entire purchase", which they honored.  While I was there, a man that had stayed at the park previously called. Do you have a lot available? Why  yes, yes I do!  When do you plan on coming? Oh, I'll be there in about 10 minutes, lol. 

Ok! I'll be there in half an hour.  Well, I get there, fire up the computer and ... of course it wants to do an update. It always wants to do an update.  I knew that was going to take a while, one of the tenants was offering her card and I'm like, well, I can't take it yet, I have to get my laptop working. That was only the beginning of the woes with trying to get signed into the card connect to accept credit cards.

Oh, well I forgot: there was a check in the mailbox for the 3 workers.  That was good news for me.  

Anyway, the guy calls me from his new lot and says he thinks there's something wrong with my power.  I thought, this is the new pedestal I put in, but there's been numerous trailers using it, I have a hard time believing this is on my end.  

That went on for literally hours.  It was definitively determined - by me  - that it isn't my 50 amp outlet.  There is something wrong on your end.  After a lot of investigative work, calling the RV repair guy,  him calling the company that sold the trailer to him, etc., it was determined that it is likely the GFCI outlet in his bathroom. Half the trailer was working and the other half was not. 

This was confirmed by both my repair guy and the 800 call center he called for help.  Replace that and see what happens. Which reminds me, I need to take a battery charger back over there, gag.  

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I promised the man I would bring a battery charger over, so I stopped this post, took it over there and then made dinner.  

He paid after I also spent hours trying to get the credit card software to log in, with repeated "resent password reset" links from their end.  I was on the phone with them quite a while, while going through the first and second layers of people that don't know anything beyond what a computer screen is telling them and giving you the run around. You have to go through their bs before you finally get to anyone who actually knows anything. 

Long story short: the third layer got the thing working, which is when I collected 2 credit card payments and talking with a guest and just a lot of stuff before I left for the bank.  Deposited the 3 worker's check, the laundromat rolled quarters and felt a little better after that. I was going to get a sandwich at the sandwich shop but remembered they close at 2:00.  Well past 2, I just ended up going home to get a bite to eat, start this blog and run back with the battery charger, also trying to collect cash from another renter who has multiple people living in this rather small trailer.

They all go to the Baptist University in town.  I don't have a problem with that as long as they behave. However, I did have a problem with a pickup truck being parked in the lot next to their door.  Please move that thing to the overflow parking.  I told that to the girl in there, the guy was gone but was supposed to be there...along with another guy that was in there earlier.  

There should be a paycheck showing up tonight. If that doesn't happen, well, there will be as many phone calls as necessary to find out what's happening, cause' I've turned in all of my work.  And other money coming in as well, which should leave my accounts looking much happier.  

OH, the 6 year old.  Face planted himself on a concrete driveway last night running from one house going to another. Smashed his nose and lips nicely, blood all over his face.  Cleaned that up. Then today? I get a text from Taylor: He did it again at school today!  So in the period of 5 days, he's been mauled be a large dog and face planted the ground twice. If 3 time's the charm, we will be happy if nothing more happens to him after today, any time soon. 

So for well over a week, probably a few weeks now, I have been looking at lot 3 and wondering who the frontiersman is staying there.  I kept drawing a blank.  I couldn't for the life of me remember who is in that lot.  

But when the guy took lot 7 today, I finally remembered.  He moved to lot 3!  It just suddenly hit me, I had no record of his move, I forgot to write it down and it totally slipped my  mind.  He's due to pay up in a few days if he's staying, if I recall correctly he won't be around too long.  I have 5 lots that have stayed far longer than they initially said they were. Not that I'm complaining, but when they leave, I don't know how long it will take to fill them back up.  

The dude coming in today out of the blue was a bonus.  

I dunno, but I am hoping no more "stuff" that I need to spend money on beyond more grass seed anytime soon so I can start getting some money saved up in the business checking account.  Get me 7 grand in there and I'll start preparing to build out more lots.  7 grand for another septic system, have to start there.  I can't add anything else to the existing system, it's already pretty much being overused as it stands. The good thing about that is, you just have it pumped out if it fills up.  The bad news is it's $450 to have it pumped out, gag.  

It's that or I can build my glamping dream - for around 7 grand maybe less - and see if I can rent it out for $50 per night, hype it up nice, have it very nicely decorated inside (I'll have to get the ladies in there to do that for me, they are much better at that than I) replete with a king sized bed, AC/heat, a small kitchen area with a microwave, popcorn maker, toaster, small refrigerator, etc.  You don't have running water in those setups and you don't have a bathroom in it. The bathroom will be in the shed.  Which means I'll have to build that setup pretty close to the shed.  I do have an area in mind, right next to the doggy park.  

I've been looking at glamping tents, I can get one that's large and nice looking for around $750 or so. It's the deck that I plan on building that's going to cost.  I can build a fancy outhouse and outdoor shower that would be right next to the setup instead of having to go to the shed.  Not sure about that one.  I am seriously looking into it since it wouldn't cost another septic system to do it, I would have to run power from the other side of the park which I planned on doing anyway.  

The costly stuff? yeah, that wood deck is going to be expensive right now unless I can find another person selling off a pile of wood cheap, I see that on Facebook Marketplace from time to time.  Cooling/heating wont' be cheap and neither will a good bed.  Hence the 7 grand amount and that is probably not realistic. But I don't know, it might be doing it myself.  I won't pay someone to do that unless it's James helping build out the 30 foot diameter deck.  I do want it off the ground.  They get a 23 foot wide tent and a porch with chairs/outdoor couch or something like that.  You can also get those tents with a hole for a wood burning stove. 

Yes, that sounds crazy in a tent, but they do it, I've seen enough people talking about such a thing and also pics of it.  

I'm not sure which I would do, add more lots or a glamping venture, I'm no where near that right now, I have time to consider it.  I'd probably do about 5 lots after getting a septic system in there initially.  I have a guy that can to the dozer work and I have 2 places that will rent and deliver a dozer.  

"It takes money to make money". Yup.  Give me a hundred grand right now and I can get the park doubled in size.  

As I said, I have plenty of time to consider.  If the winter works out as I hope it does - which who knows - but I could get some money saved up by summer time, enough to get something done either way.  

However.  I want to save money for the summer months for electric bills.  Even if out.  Right now? Well, I still have to find a new insurance company before December 1st and pay property taxes no later than February.  

Well, enough.  I just feel better that I collected and deposited that money today.