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Mar 16
2010

Why is Snow Beautiful? It Covers Up Sin...

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Posted by: Douglass Benson on Mar 16, 2010 03:49

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Here we are again.  Faced with viewing all the "gifts" that had to this point in time, been covered up by a beautiful white sheet of snow.  As the temperature warms, we get to discover all that has been given to us throughout the winter.  Sounds nice doesn't it?

Let me ask you this...at your place, do you let junk and trash and litter drift quietly around where you live?  Do you decide it is ok to let your kids dump their french fry boxes and pop cups on the ground as they get out of the car?  Do you randomly toss pens, jewelry, debris and detritus all around you?  I am a small time operator (32 units and growing) and admit that I possibly haven't seen it all, but...regardless of which of my three sites I am at, I am ALWAYS finding trash to pick up.  Have I become the "picky" "neat freak" owner or do I have tenants not pleased enough or proud enough to do it themselves?  I always get thanked by folks that are going out to their cars.  I hear from the neighbors in fact about how happy they are that I am here to "clean up the place".  Geez, is that all there was to making the neighbors happy?  You mean I didn't have to get rid of the bad guys, just the hamburger wrappers!?!

I recognize in our Multi-Family world we should be talking about ROI, Cap Rates, Best Use and the latest Federal Occupancy statutes, but not today.  Besides, I just dropped off my tax doco to my CPA so lets not even think about stuff like that...today.

Today, I am TRYING to enjoy spring (and actually, living in Michigan I really DO!), but with each receeding snowbank, I am forgetting about the lower heating bills, the fact that there will be no more plowing (with Michigan, you never lose that fear) or concerns about "slip and falls".

 

I am only wondering if I am going to run out of rubber gloves. 

 

 

 

 


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written by Tara Smiley, March 16, 2010
DOuglass - THis post is great! You officially are on the list of unsung heroes... except that your residents seem to be singing the happy tune plenty about you. Property management is a "lead by example" biz. If you lead, they will follow. Forget the gloves, get a grabber...smilies/wink.gif
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