Stuff...

The new condo door keys got mailed to Illinois on Monday, the contract with the realtor was signed and faxed, and as soon as he has the keys, he can list the rental, and start showing the condo to potential tenants.

I have had 3 full blown panic attacks, so now I know that my adrenal glands still don't work quite right. Part of it probably has to do with the stress from last month, with Dave's trip to the hospital.

I've had some issues with the current tenant sending me bizarre and truly hateful emails, and completely freaking out on me for hiring a realtor.....what the fuck did she expect me to do?

So, I have told her to stop contacting me altogether. She has a question or issue? She talks to the realtor. I'm beyond done with her. She's insane.

I have been nothing but lenient and kind, since day one.

I didn't charge her a pet deposit, yet she broke the condo rules regarding dog ownership (and she is a member of the condo board, as a renter!---and I got a warning letter from the management company).
I didn't penalize her for breaking the terms of the lease the moment she moved in, and brought her adult son with her as a room mate (two members of the board called me in Oklahoma to alert me that my tenant had already effed up, and that I was in trouble for it....) who was not on the lease, and had not been back ground checked, etc.
I did not penalize her when she broke MY personal apartment owner rules, and had the lock on the door changed (an interior hallway door in a security building--and there was no one she knew out there with a key to my locks. I had my locks changed after a bad situation where there was a person out there in the world with my key....but she had no reason to change them).
I didn't take issue with her when she failed to notify me that the room mate moved out.

Everyone knows that I've always thought she was a little "off," overly naive and innocent acting to be true, and HYPER reactive to the slightest thing.......but now I know for sure--she's weird. My suspicion is that she is having some kind of emotional breakdown, or that she's bipolar.

I'm extremely grateful that she always paid her rent on time, and that she took good care of the place, but she's whack. I sincerely wish her well, but I am glad she's moving out of MY property.

Anyway, after she got over freaking out about the realtor, she allowed him to speak to her (which he HAS to do! would she rather not know the person who is going to be marching people through her home?!), and the realtor told me that the story is, she's buying another unit in the same building (she always said she would buy mine, if she could ever buy---yet balked at being offered the opportunity to rent to own, and to take over the payments).

3 months after filing bankrupcty? Hmmm...interesting.

In fact, the realtor finds it SO interesting that he is going to investigate it using some of the tools at his disposal.

What ticks me off most, though, is that she had her lease renewal packet 8 weeks ahead of schedule this year, because last year, she freaked out on me when I hadn't sent it to her by the first of July (lease ends at the end of Sept).

Last year, she said she was afraid I was going to "kick her out," and she wanted to know way ahead of time if that was the case....she was freaking out, and could not figure out why I had not sent her a renewal packet and it was already JULY!!!!

(my response to her was that there was no reason to "kick her out, " and that I was not legally CAPABLE of doing that ....and that there was no reason for me to send the renewal packet before mid August!!! I also said that I hoped that SHE would GIVE ME TONS OF NOTICE if she were ever going to move out. She promised me that she would, but said she never wanted to move out.)

So, I sent it early this year, IN JUNE, and even though she KNEW she would be moving out, and buying a unit of her own, she waited until the last possible moment to respond.

Sometimes, people just suck.

I was dealing with the worst of this while Dave was out of town. That didn't help. He comes home today, though, and I look forward to that.

The upshot is that I have learned an incredible amount about being a land lord, which was something I never, ever wanted to be.

(I never wanted to be a medical billing specialist, either, but there it is...)

I know that I never want to do this again.....I will figure out how to have a local property manager as the point person for the new tenant. I will not tolerate being the only person the tenant has access to anymore.

I will collect the rent money, I will make the mortgage, association, and tax payments, and I will pay for whatever repairs are needed....but someone else is going to be the go to person...even if I have to pay that person some kind of retainer.

I can't do this again.

Also, I WILL charge a NON REFUNDABLE pet deposit, and I will require 90 days' notice before move out!

At home sick today, with a fever, sore throat, and head ache. The night terrors, panic attacks, and daily stress got the better of me.

Having Dave home will help....still needing everyone's prayers and good energies. Need this issue to settle. Soon.