Ditched a rather lengthy post. Just didn't feel the vibe with it. Vibing, btw, for my Christian friends, isn't some demonic force that I'm attempting to invoke. The vibe is simply your gut instinct. Now, I was called god the other day by a person. That really sent chills to my bones. Uhh, no, I'm definitely not god. You're my god. Why? What on earth? NO. Why this person was saying this was totally unknown to me. I've been called a lot of things in this life, but god? That was the first time. And hopefully the last time. I humbly bow before the Creator God and fully understand that He IS God and there is none other likened unto Him!
It was cold this morning and it was cold all day long. The high was 37 degrees. Yes, I went to the property, I almost always go there. I didn't stay long. Checked out the septic, looked at the tenants trailers, everything seemingly in order, I had to answer one question: Go a few miles away to get the pipe or drive over to Longview? I started heading to Longview before I realized that I am not wanting to have to deal with a water heater and enclosure in this cold, both putting it on the trailer and taking it off.
I was still on my road, I just turned around and went and spent the money on the pipe.
Dumped that off by the shed and then made the mistake of taking the trailer back to it's normal parking place. Yea, the mud. Seriously? I could use about 14 truckloads of gravel. Backing out of the spot, my SUV started sliding sideways. I stopped immediately - sliding sideways within inches of the trailer I just unhooked.
I got out of there but regretted dropping it there. I need it to go get the water heater and the enclosure. It can wait, I'm not going back there again until it dries up some.
After that, I drove to the park portion and sat there looking and musing about things. The other guy that wanted to move in - never called me back. I ended that thought, oh well. I'm not going to get upset about people no showing - it's just the way it goes with renting out much of anything.
I went home and started working on the Dunn and Bradstreet setup. It's basically Credit Karma for business. If you want a business credit score, D&B is the place to start. It already had my information, I just had to complete it for an account. It showed my business a very bad risk for credit purposes of any kind. Very bad rating. I guess that's where they start every business? I don't know because it also showed no late pays or any bad info. For credit purposes, it didn't have any info, as it should be.
No biggies. I started applying for business credit cards. Rejected by 2 - Capital One was a bit surprising, my bank wasn't. Well, I take that back. My bank is "reviewing it" - they didn't actually say no. I don't know what that means. The one I found amazing that did give me a credit card is American Express.
Maybe they've lowered their standards but they typically don't give credit to no credit situations.
It's a couple thousand worth of credit. I'm going to buy some stuff from Lowe's online with it tomorrow - namely electrical components for the shed - pick them up at Lowe's and then I will pay it down to zero with business checking account. Actually I think you are supposed to leave it for 15 days and then pay it down. Hey, I don't make this stuff up, I read it from various "authoritative" sources. Lots of advice out there. My experience in the past with AmEx is that they don't want you to carry balances. They want you to buy and pay it off before or at the due date.
It's a start - buy, pay, buy, pay. I don't know how long it takes to get a decent score, but probably a while.
I then called the lady that pays for this new tenant's existence at my park. Again, these oil field workers get lots of perks. That guy isn't paying for his lot rent. But it probably is a per-diem thing and that's why he showed up at my place. The more he saves on per diem, the more he gets back. That is my projection, I've had per-diem - tho it can work in a myriad of ways. Just depends on the company.
Anyway, we had a pleasant exchange - she's a really nice lady - and then I told her the other guy didn't call back so I'll just take the payment for the guy that showed up. She offered that the other guy may have been called out - this happens constantly with these workers - and may not have had time to come. I sort of thought of it, but the fact he didn't call me back kind of gave me the idea he wasn't interested. But think about it - coworkers on the same crew. They can go to work together and come home together, saving a ton of fuel costs getting to and from work.
The only thing I really know about these guys are that they are welders - that's what they do with steel pipe, they just weld it together - and they are making bank.
She wanted to contact him and see what he wants to do? Sure, I can wait.
30 minutes later, she calls back. The man told her he had chosen lot 9 and that he was moving in tomorrow. Lmao. These people. Ok! I took the company credit card info and charged them 2 lot rent's worth and the credit card fee. Yup, I don't feel compelled to pay that at those rates. I offered to her that she could pay by check if she so desired, to save the fee money? I don't really care as long as I get the money. The agreement was pay by card this month and begin check payments next month.
That's it. Right now, the only people I know of potentially coming are the ones held up by weather - and bad weather the DFW has had and IS having now. The couple never showed up and haven't contacted me. People are driving through the property frequently, apparently. Not just apparently, when I was there with the railroad dude the other day, an economy car came driving slowly through. I thought they wanted to discuss moving in? or what they were doing there?
Well, whatever the reason they were there, they just waved as they slowly drove past and left, lol. Ok!
I'm up to 5 long term, I'd like 2 more. After that, I am totally undecided at this point and I will just have to make that decision when I get there. But - I think when I get to 7 I'm going to take "long term" off of everything and see what happens. It dawned on me that my substantial reading on this subject has a "party" of interests, much like politics. One side wants guests/overnight travelers only. They have a disdain for long term tenants and they very vocally tell everyone about it. It's not a small sector of RV'ers, either. The other side - long term, have a different view but it's not a view opposed to short term guests.
I don't know, but it's just yet another thing I want to explore in terms of getting the over night people in there. I'll get my 7 long term first. How long will it take to get 2 more? I have no clue. They mostly show up out of nowhere. The railroad family was one of those, showed up on Sunday and they haven't been back since - their rig is there of course.
Oh, I am going to try just once for a business loan. See if I can get the 7 plus k to get the wired internet in there. What choice do I have? I can't do this Verizon stuff - it's going to clean me out. These people want their free internet, I have to give them something. Verizon will sit there until I can get something affordable in there. Some of these things just give me headaches thinking about it.
I just have to shut that off. It just revolves around in circular thinking that I can't resolve. If there is something else, I haven't found it.
Well anyway, that's today.
