Painting Sucks!

I forget why I chose to be a Real Estate Entreprenuer, but I can pretty darn well say that it was not to re-paint tenant occupied spaces once they move out. Now I can paint and its not that bad, but it takes a lot of time to get ready to paint. I have to buy the paint, get the materials together, the brushes, tape off the areas I don't really want to paint with color A, in favor of color B.

Then if you are lucky and your spouse comes over, she or he can tell you what you did wrong. Of course, they never stay to clean up or help with the dirty parts of the job, but you know, you are your own boss, so you can give your property the bird and head to the pool, of course at the pool you feel guilty and you realize that no one is taking care of the property that you have promised your new tenants would be ready in a couple of days, which makes your pool experience, that, much, worse.

Dealing with painting of a property that has been neglected is one giant pain in the ass. I had to clean the baseboards, the kitchen walls of grease, I had to clean the AC duct of lint (I mean these 2 fat lazy women will be on welfare the rest of their lives, cause they never cleaned ANYTHING while at my property) and I will make sure that they receive my $$$ bill in the form of the 3 credit bureaus. They had the audacity to tell me on the way out that they would have cut the lawn, had they known it needed it. (Grass was 1-foot high and there were yellow-jackets building nests in it, so now we know why they never did anything, ouch, 2 stings.

But painting does suck, but its part of the joys of property management. I could outsource it, but contractors suck, take too long and cost too much for basic paint of a property that does not have to be a Mona Lisa paint job, just good enough to get by for my new tenant. So just get it done and live to fight another day.