Thursday, May 1, 2025

 Thursday - night

I might as well go for - not broke, lol.

I've been qualified for a zero turn mower.  In my mind, this is debt I don't mind having. If I'm cutting my own grass - which I will, just work on it here and there and don't try to get it all done at once - I am saving money over paying someone from the outside to do it or giving away free lot rent.  Either one of those options is twice as much as the monthly payment for a brand new mower.  I'm talking a riding mower, not a push mower. Push mowers aren't that much money, I'm getting another one of those as well. The last one was greatly abused.  

People don't seem to care about equipment if they don't have to pay for it.  

No, I haven't heard anything back about the septic permit, not going to stress over that, it will happen sooner or later.  

I forgot to check if they had marked the underground lines today, gag.  They emailed me that they had, I want to lay eyeballs on it.  The engineer never called me back from the power company, just want to ensure the setup is enough to cover more lots. Because of the lag time between when you make an order and they actually show up to do it, I must know now that the power company is either ok with the current setup or put an order in to upgrade. 

It's a very large transformer up there, I"d like to think it's enough for whatever I want to throw at it.  But who knows, I'm not going to leave it until the last thing and then...find out...it's not enough and they have to replace it and that will be 2 months.  No thank you.

As for work today, I went up to Gurdon, delivered, over to Texarcana and - spent almost 3 hours getting 6 new tires on the truck.  I knew today wasn't going to go fast and I wasn't disappointed.  Whatever, the tires are all good on the tractor and trailer - for now anyway - we're good to go. 

Late/second load tomorrow, no getting up uber-early, I'm down for that. Too many mornings I'm awakened by the alarm clock that went off long before I would have otherwise awakened on my own without it.  I think this is the 5th straight week I'll have worked 6 days in a row, off Sunday, back to work on Monday.  I very much don't like it, all I can say is I'm working towards the day when I won't have to do that anymore.  Either through a much larger park or just retire on SS and sell the park and have the income to live off of.

Yea - no.  I am not going to the trouble of building this park to just end up selling it off.  It can end up being a hands off thing that I don't really have to be present for, eventually, if that's what I want to do with it. Reap the benefits with little work involved.  

I paid off the cards yesterday that had the highest balances on them and the bigger loan.  I'm waiting for all of that to go through the bank and see what's left. There's still more to pay off, I just don't need to leave myself high and dry.  Right now, I have dumped the same amount or more than what the loan payment will be.  

The plan is simple. Get rid of most credit card debt, pay the monthly payments for a year or so, hope interest rates come down, even if they don't my credit score will skyrocket, get a better rate and pay off the current loan with another at a much better rate.  Set myself up for the opportunity to get an SB loan and get all of this over and done with.  

A high 700's score coupled with a property with a 25 space rv park that has very little owed on it should be good enough to score a decent loan with acceptable interest rate. 

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Had to play some Fortnite, lol.  Won a crown and then lost it the next game, then we came close to winning again but got blown away by sweats near the end.  They have a new season to download tonight.  

Anyway, it's bed time.  

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