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I feel your pain. I can't wait to see my rental go bye bye. Never again will I rent out a house.

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Installed new wheel bearing hubs on the back of my 2012 Impala. Not too hard a job. Replaced the fronts about 20k miles ago and the rear recently developed a vibration like the front had.

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My dad knew a guy who rented a house for more than long enough to own it, but he started a family early and never was able to scrape up a down payment for a home of his own. Renting to those kind of people would be golden, but these days they are hard to find. Part of the problem was that the wife in that family was my wife's friend. The only people who will beat you out of money more than friends, are family. Sad, but true. I didn't want to rent it out to start with. I had just retired, and it took me two years to drag my sorry butt around and get the place fixed up enough to sell. It was easier than working, though. I'm pretty sure that if I had worked my old job for those two years, I'd be dead. Like I told my doctor, I was staggering around bouncing off the walls with fatigue. What used to be done by seven people got squeezed down to four, of which I was two of them. When the other guy took a golden parachute, I got his work, too. I was one year too young for that golden parachute. The projects have moved on in that time, but there were three people doing what I did before I retired, and B******g the whole time. :lol: I guess I feel a kind of masochistic pride about that.

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My buddy rented a house for over 20 years. He too had kids and lived paycheck to paycheck. He could never come up with a down payment.

He took such good care of that house that you would have thought it was his. It was tricked out. Tiki bar patio, the whole nine yards. But the landlord sold the house. There were condos coming in and that house was in the way. I don't know what the condo people paid for it but I'm sure it was plenty. They demolished the house to make way for the condos. My buddy at the age of about 55 finally bought his own place out in Ontario. He's fixed it up nice too.

That was about the time I was renting out my place. He wanted to rent it but I had already rented it to my cousin. Huge mistake. I second that you should never rent to relatives. My cousin always paid on time and I assumed that he was keeping the place up. Wrong. He was there for 5 years and I don't think that he ever cleaned anything in 5 years. I don't understand it. I gave him a sweet deal on the place. I could have got $2700 a month and charged him $1500. You can't get a 1 bedroom apartment around there for $1500. This is a 4 bedroom house. He loaded it up with his kids and grandkids and I would bet that he charged them rent, so he was paying nothing. He was mad when I said that I was selling it. He wouldn't move. He kept giving me excuses. I finally told him to get out or I would have him thrown out. My wife is retiring. We need the money to offset the loss of income. My wife is too young to get any Social Security.

So he finally left after calling me a bunch of bad names. I guess that I need to cross him off my Christmas list.

And then there's my brother. What a piece of work. I own 3/4 of my mothers house and he owns 1/4 (long story) But he lives there rent free and claims that he wants to buy me out but then hires lawyers instead to gum up the works. He just keeps stalling me. Why shouldn't he. He's living there for free and he doesn't have the money to buy me out, so I get nothing but a headache. Another relative to cross off the Christmas list.

My family reunions just keep getting smaller. :waah:

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Good for your buddy, sounds like a good guy.

All that's left at the rental is a little paint touch up, clean the carpets and new kitchen floor. Those last two are hired. I'm going to take the leaf blower over and blow all the cobwebs out of the garage. Other than that, I'll be going by every day just to make it look busy so I don't get any squatters.

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Installed front and rear racks on the quad.

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Milling up some oak today . During the breaks I loaded up some wood for my son .

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is that a 'zuk eiger?
looks just like my wife's quad...except for the color

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Got some nice flitches from this log and I’m only half done with it . Got 7 more logs to mill yet . I’m doing this one log at 21/2 inches the rest I’m going to do a mix of 1inch to 1 1/2 inch and one at 5 inch for a mantle . The boards will be 6 to 7 feet long the logs average 13 to 14 ft two are red oak and the other two are white

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During breaks? :confused:
That is some good looking wood.

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I drove my other ride
https://i.ibb.co/4Rj9gKR/IMG-1034.jpg

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Worked on tearing the floor out of our rental house kitchen and bath. The flooring was replaced in the '80s, so has no asbestos in any part of it. The guys came out and were going to lay the new flooring right over the top of the old linoleum. Many phone calls and arguments later, the guys went away, and we'll have to remove the current flooring to the subfloor ourselves. Lame. I'm too old for this fecal matter. I know where the asbestos is, and it ain't in this floor. :(

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If the subfloor is wood why not just lay some 1/4" Luan plywood over the top of it? That would make a great new subfloor and seems like it would be easier than removing the old vinyl.

LockDoc

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What I didn't do is go along with my Buddy on an adventure that sounded interesting. The adventure was run out and down through WVA to Huntington along the Ohio R. to pick up a railroad speeder. I helped him drag the trailer out last Friday when he asked me if I wanted to go along.

Why I decided not to take him up on the offer. He inherited this trailer from a contractor who left it behind on his rental property. He brought it to where we pulled it out from, never used it. It's like new and a very heavy built single axle tilt deck w/16" rubber and full width with a pintle hitch. First red flag came when he said "Tires aren't all cracked up". I looked between the treads and said, "They're cracked between the treads". In one ear and out the other.

The tow vehicle is an Astro Van with the small receiver hitch. Can you smell that second red flag coming up? He bought an adapter for a ball coupler that mounts to the pintle rack on the trailer and a 2" adapter for the receiver on the van. This is many red flags in one. The trailer with load will be at the old vehicle's max tow capacity by way of coupling through a light duty frame-mount hitch adapted (extended) "up" to 2" using a ball coupler (extended) on the heavy trailer with cracked tires. He is also cutting out the round connector on the trailer to put a flat one on since that's what the Astro has. So no trailer brakes.

I'm overdue for a great adventure but I decided to pass this one up. If I throw caution to the wind I like to make sure the wind is blowing first. We are very different in that way :lol:

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That's a great idea. I'm going over this morning to see how tough it is going to be to get the old stuff up first, though. I really want to stick the subfloor to the joists to get rid of the squeaks.

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Yes I have to take a break from milling . It’s not an easy task on the body and tossing wood actually feels good bending and twisting . The saw don’t care as long as I let it idle to cool . Biggest mistake people make with air cooled engines is shutting them off after a long or hard cut

Not sure what I’ll be making with it but I have about 3 years to decide . That’s how long it takes to air dry the standard is 1year per inch thickness .

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Oh man! This sounds like a good you tube video in the making. :lol:

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I hope he has a selfie stick!! :lol: He should rent a U-Haul trailer.

This guy is my friend so I know him well enough that I should call him Haphazard Harry. Last winter he went to start his Astro Van and it only cranked, no fire. It was a very damp day after it rained all night. I'd be pulling the distributor cap, cleaning out the carbon tracks, and on my way to buy new quality cap and rotor. Probably a good time for spark plugs and check out the wires. But that's me. He sat there and cranked, cranked, cranked, cranked, crank crank crank crank.............. I was amazed how well his battery held out. He said it's done this before, it'll start eventually. Finally it starts to kick every so often, then more, and finally he got it to start after 10-15 minutes of cranking. All the while he's having a fit because he was leaving to go watch a Ravens game with no time to spare. I saw him a couple/few weeks later and asked if got the Astro straightened out. "It hasn't done it since". Ok, so it fixed itself or it hasn't rained. I wonder if he even put a new cap on.

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Oh Boy!....I got a buddy that I've known for 40+ years that was modeled by the good lord after Festus Haggen on Gunsmoke, he looks like him, talks like him and acts like him. When he gets an idea in his head you can't blow it out with dynamite. This is just one story of many and won't be the last.

About 10 years ago he informs me that he bought a forklift and was going to go get it, so I asked him how he was going to haul it? "On my car trailer" was the answer. Said I..."you do know that the counter weight on that is probably close to 5,000 lbs right?" "Yeah but my trailer is good for 7,000 lbs" was his answer. My reply was "Why don't you just call a tow company with a roll back to go get it".

Well long story short after getting it on the trailer, chained and bindered down (which added even more weight) with the two steer axle tires with a foot print about the size of a deck of cards nesting over the 15 year old 2X8's... One set of railroad tracks later the forklift steer axle and counter weight is now thru the trailer deck resting on the axle(s) They had to get a special Boom Truck out of Sacramento to pick it up, set it on the boom truck deck and haul it to his house. Very expensive Forklift before it was all said and done.

Glad I was not there.

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You reckon some of us might use a bit less foresight than others? Some maybe none and a few of those have no hindsight either. They like to do things wrong twice! :lol:

I've know Chuck about 40 years myself. If he was taking his '58 REO I would have been riding shotgun looking for adventure. It would have been a blast! That thing gets 12.5 mpg (Cat 1160/Roadranger/3.40-3.50-ish rear). I wonder what that Astro would get pulling that heavy trailer empty. Let alone, the return trip loaded. And Huntington, WVA is along the Ohio River which happens to be the opposite side of the "The Mountain State" from here, a trans-Appalachian journey both ways.

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Was down at the horse farm early first day of rifle saw nothing so at 3 I cut some wood . Got some RTB wood and as I was leaving right at the driveway to the farm this guy must have gotten hit . Nice big 8 pointer .

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The rut is now! Dead deer all over the roadside, lots of movement. I've spotted more bucks shallow into the woods or crossing roads than I can ever recall (while driving) in the last week.

I worked on fixing this cellar areaway that had fallen victim to faulty work on top of faulty work. The old farm house had gotten vinyl siding installed and later the roof replaced on this areaway. No flashing at the house by either of these contractors. To make it worse, this roofline had sunken toward the house, so with little pitch on the roof rainwater would run toward the house as easily as down the slope, which caused rot and further sinking at the house.

They didn't want anything fancy. They called because water was running inside the cellar, tip of the iceberg as they say. I was able to replace minimal framing with old lumber to match, jack what needed jacking up and what needed straightened got straightened using minimal new materials. I still need to do flashing, shingles, and retrim window sill. Also replace the rotted fascia & soffit on the left where the heating oil fill was hanging

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My daughter is moving back to Ct. from Salem, Ma. I'm proud of her. She is single and she is buying a house in our old hometown. It's 105 years old so I know where I will be spending much of my time. My wife and I have been moving her stuff to our house the last 3 weekends. My garage is absolutely stuffed. Moving the furniture damn near killed me. The kid loves old stuff. She has my FIL's old gold velvet couch. It is 9' long. No legs in the middle. It ways about 87 million Lbs. One more trip this weekend and we are done.

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You need the Astro van and trailor

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We did 2 loads with an extended GMC van and 1 load with my Denali pickup and a 12x7 quad trailer. I should have took pictures of the trailer. It looked like Fred Sanford's truck. Ratchet straps all over the place and 165 mile white knuckle drive.
I'm getting too old for this moving stuff, my whole body hurts.

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I'm happy for you. Not the labor, getting her closer and seeing her doing well. What more could a father ask?

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I had appointment with my oncologist, almost 5 years since Stanford. It looks like I'll be around to bug ya'll for a while. All Good!

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Super good news Dale.

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Good on ya! I'm getting with my oncologist every 3 months; just in monitor mode, for now.

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That's great news, Dale! Crack a barley pop.... :barn:

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Keep Dale's corner cleared out. Great news.

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good news indeed!

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Great news, Dale.

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Thanks guys! Stocker I had more than one "Barley Pop"......lol

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Good for you Dale.

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Cancer-free is a great thing!

I'm finally assembling the table saw I bought back in April. Had to clear out enough room to assemble it.

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After we finished chatting today, my next door neighbor went into town in his '85 K25 pickup. When he got back he said he had to go cut a deer up. Coming home one was on the side of the road hit and dying. He put it out of misery and loaded it up. Now that's something to be thankful for. Earlier he said he couldn't wait till tomorrow, 1st day of rifle.

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Put the second wing and the router table extension on my new table saw. I've had it since April, but had no room to assemble or use it. Sold my old table saw, and moved some tool boxes and the old router table to temporary storage. I contacted the saw manufacturer because a bunch of fastener hardware is just plain missing. I'll get that sometime next week and finish building it. Still don't really have room, but once I put my carving bench and tools in their final place, there'll be plenty of room.

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Sounds similar to my situation created by clearing out my barn so I can move it. I got it moved so now tightening it up. My woodshop tools have been "no access" for far too long.

Today I flashed the roof where the lean-to connects. One more step toward moving back in for a fresh start placing things in the best place vs before when it was a 30 year accumulation.

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It's always nice to have things where we want them and can use them. I'm so close to done with the repairs and painting on the rental house! Carpet cleaning and some flooring (both of which are being done by someone else, thankyouverymuch), and then, out of our hands. It's in LA, and my main worry is that squatters will get in. It's a big problem, and it takes months to get people out if they manage to get in. I'm hoping that being there every day and showing a presence will deter that. Barring that, I'll just get a bunch of friends to go and party the place down so that the squatters will leave. :lol: