Sunday again. And a complete change of plans!

I think we are destined to be landlords forever. We spent the day at the rent house. It's not in bad shape, it's pretty clean actually. But we have decided against putting it on the market. We would prefer to sell it, and we could still. But in order to get it up to the standard we'd like so we would be able to get a price we'd like, it needs more work than we can afford at the moment. We are going to have to replace the carpet, which we already knew. But we would also have to replace the stove and the front door. The stove works, but it doesn't look very pretty. We would also want to wall in the current door to the master bedroom and move the door to where it would be entered through the kitchen. Which is how the house originally was, the people we bought it from changed that when they rebuilt it after the fire. (My opinion has always been that they had an insurance fire, and I still think that).

There are a few other things that would need to be done to get it to a selling point, the bedroom door is the biggest one. None of the other things are particularly big, but they would be time consuming and cost more than we have for it at the moment. We are going to have to replace the sliding glass door from the master bedroom, which we did not anticipate but it really needs to be done now. We are going to put french doors there. The dining room light is a ceiling fan, we are going to take the light out of the dining room at home and put it in the rent house, then get a new light to replace it at home.

Bill is going to get started on painting, that's not unusual to have to do when a tenant moves out and we didn't have to paint it the last time. He's going to take the two satellite dishes off the roof and replace one of the windows. The curtains in the living room will be replaced with vertical blinds on the big window and a set of mini-blinds on the side window, which is the one to be replaced. While he's at it, he's going to replace the old & ugly linoleum tile in the front entrance way. Possibly with Pergo wood, which he's also going to put in the hallway. The back door entrance way tile will be replaced, to match what we put in the kitchen when we first turned it into a rent house.

We are probably going to repaint the garage, it's been at least 5 years since we did that and it really needs it.

This coming Wednesday will be 3 years since we moved! It was an exhausting experience. But we're glad we did.

Well, the pizza is on the way so I'm going to post this now!