Friday

I did not do Black Friday this year.  Anything I need isn't put on Black Friday sales. I don't need computers, tv's or anything else really for the house.  I'm sure the contractor won't give me a black friday deal on his bid lmao.  Maybe hot tubs but I really don't want to buy a brand new one with $400 monthly payments. If the payments were lower I might think about it.  

Today is a day off and I'm just going to do nothing.  I worked 4 days before the last day off and 6 days before that, just want to take it easy.  Amazingly, it's already almost 3 pm, where did this day go?  

The folks are buying a new refrigerator. Not sure what brought that about, excepting we've been needing a bigger one for a long time now. We've made do with the one we have, however.  No biggies to me, I'm not buying it so if they want a new fridge, a new fridge it is!  

I've got people coming into the park every day for 4 days in a row and all of them are staying at least 3 days.  Much needed revenue. I'm not behind on anything or even close to it, I just was hoping to build up the business checking account during the winter months, that hasn't much happened because I've had so many empty lots.  I've managed to fill 3 of them up, there's still 3 to go.  But, if I can fill them with short term I'm all down for that.  

Well, I do have the property tax bills due no later than the last day of February. After that, they start assessing late fees.  They are hefty bills. The county assesses one and the city/school district assesses the other. It's not cheap but I do understand why. They want to build brand new schools and already have built several of them.  They want to = well it's not worth going into, it's a lot of waste and abuse.  Typical government entity that doesn't give a damn about citizens, I will be spending somewhere in the ballpark of $2,500 for property taxes this year. That doesn't include the Phoenix house, that is auto-baked into the mortgage payment.  

I've been thinking about it and really, I'd love to put a small house on one of the properties I got through tax sales. Those are well over 2 years since I bought them so no one can redeem them. It's a small property but it's in a prime location, the only draw back is the rail road tracks - right there. However, the train doesn't sound it's horn anywhere near that property. It's within walking distance of Krogers, Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, Chili's DQ - you get the picture.  

Get a construction loan, have a small house built and use it for purely income purposes.  Well, I may consider that down the road in actually doing it, interest rates are ridiculous right now and even if the Fed keeps lowering the rate, it will be quite a while before we get anything near the 3% mortgage rate, if we ever get there again.  I think it's near 7 right now.  I've kept that property because I've wanted to develop it.  I just think with the location it would easily rent out.  

The city dictated a few years ago that I would have to put on a 1,100 square foot, site built home, no mobiles.  1,100 square feet is small, but not hear as small as I had planned putting in there, what with other mobiles already being on the street. In fact, there are million dollars mansions to near worthless old mobiles on that street.  Minimum 100k to build a house that size with everything needed including running power, water, sewer and probably gas lines to it, building a driveway,  etc.  

The bizarre reactions of Democrats to the Trump election parades on.  One democrat politician suggests that New York should succeed to Canada.  The amount of endless reasons why they lost is staggering. Much of it is ludicrous.  With the type of reasoning they are using, you can tell they've learned nothing.  One big factor that analysts are assessing is Trump's use of podcasts, especially the big name ones, but mostly the Joe Rogan experience podcast, he by far and away has the largest audience in the podcast kingdom.

Harris said they would do one with Rogan, but only if he did it "somewhere else" besides his studio and a time limit.  He refused and that was that. They believe it cost the Harris campaign because of the influence those podcasts has on younger, voting aged males.  Whoever was running Trump's campaign this time had their act together. There are a lot of variables to why one party wins and the other loses, most of them have nothing to do with democrat reasoning.

And Homan.  That dude ... lol the left is afraid of him lol.  The left keep saying stupid things and he keeps right on piling it on them.  One mayor? said he would go to jail rather than cave to the removal of all of these "migrants" from his town, Homan replied via X (Twitter) that he would be happy to imprison him if he obstructs ICE from doing its job. I actually believe this Homan character would do it.  

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Many hours later. The people that were to show up today? Showed up. I had informed Trey to keep an eye out for them, he never responded. Instead, several hours after I sent that text message, the people called, asked which lot, then said they could give a credit card over the phone or settle up tomorrow.  They sounded like they wanted to settle up tomorrow and for me, that's not an issue. They are staying 3 days. 

We'll try again tomorrow, but tomorrow it will be in face to face, in person and in your space type of thing.  I don't like him just ignoring stuff all day long.  If he wants the position, do it. If he doesn't, start paying rent. It's one or the other, there is no middle ground.  He does stuff - when I direct him to. It's the type of person that has to be told everything and often times, not just once.  I have worked with people like this at various jobs where the person would complete a task and then just stand there.  Huh? He told me to do this, I'm done.  I don't understand that mentality, if you're on the clock, work, do something.  Ask the manager what he wants you to do next, or be proactive and understand what they expect of you and just do it.  I haven't noticed that we are living in that kind of society with younger generations anymore.  

Have you? 

I am all over him about the boat frequently.  I just ask what he's gotten done, oh I'm about to do - whatever - right now! Yes, because I had to ask you. The 4 wheeler as well.  He figured out that the carburetor was never replaced contrary to the "customs" place I took it to the first time.  He has that installed and also wants a new whatever, I don't remember the name of the part but ignition part.  I ordered that and it should be arriving soon.  

 Well it's getting late and tho I wanted to pursue some particular topics, I don't have time. I do have the late load tomorrow but I still like to get to bed at a decent hour.