Whilest away thinking Deep Thoughts and being all Zen and Stuff with The New Plan, one of our tenants moved out. Things went  fairly well until we arrived on the premises for cleaning and make-ready.
We were greeted with this cheery sight:

Amongst Big-Shot real estate investors, this is what’s commonly known as ’A Clue’ as in ‘Something Here is Seriously Remiss […]

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Look what I found today in a dumpy little resale shop in downtown Hicksville–

Doesn’t look very exciting does it?
But wait, there’s more!
 
Good thing I turned it over…
Lookie~! The holy grail of REI~~ The Epistle of Nickerson!
Coveted by investors nationwide,
Beloved tome’ of inspirational treasure,
Best seller on ebay, regardless of condition…
But wait, there’s more!!

BWAHAHAHA
Life is good
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The Mrs. has found herself buried beneath mounds of tax related documents.  Spreadsheets and Home Depot receipts and file boxes are spilling out of the office, infecting various other locales with their annoying little Numbers of Doom. The only cure, of course, involves an investment of  sufficient seat time to actually Finish The Taxes, then trot […]

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Went to upload pictures for another post and found this:

Photographic evidence of JoJo’s latest crime.

Notice how the eyes follow the photographer about whilest the body remains relaxed and carefree.

Such advanced state of zen-like calm and worry-free criminal activity leads the Mrs. to conclude the photographer is none other than JoJo’s usual partner in naughty-ness. Anyone else  would’ve […]

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Photographic evidence that I did not eat all the chocolates…

Burp…
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Digging through the pictures and financials of our first rent house prompted a seriously soppy trip down Memory Lane. It’s a bit of a conflict as such sentimental dribble should probably be reserved for babies and new puppies but as we have neither at the moment, this will have to do.
When it came time to write this week’s article […]

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When we started looking for investment properties, most of the homes were either FSBO or listed with an agent for the usual reasons. Over the last year or so, that’s drastically changed. Now, most  of the homes are foreclosures. I’ve always found little hand prints and names in concrete charming, but something about seeing them at sad little […]

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This is JoJo.

And this is JoJo on the floor looking all innocent in front of my favorite lamp. 

 And this is the scene of the crime.
You will notice in this picture, taken Thanksgiving Day, that I had *2* favorite lamps–one on each side of the couch. Now I have one–
 Guess who’s in the doghouse?
There will be no […]

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Happy Thanksgiving, Y’all
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The first attempt at uploading the background check manual was declared an utter and abject failure as of 12:16 am CST accompanied by the sound of much weeping and gnashing of teeth.
 Therefore, one of my personalities made a motion that the whole thing be uploaded to the blog via copy/paste. The motion carried as everyone else […]

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Last night the Brz clan suffered severe trauma and emotional distress of a decidedly reptilian nature.  The following excerpt (with  some minor tweaking) was written for some cyberfriends over on my favorite decorating forum.  As I’m finding myself in need of further catharsis, the blog world now gets a dose of  same. (If Reuters would run the […]

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