Removing wall paper from our old duplex has become a weekly Saturday task. I go up, tackle half a room. Eventually get fed up, hungry, tired, and sore right shoulder and head home semi-exhilarated for what I accomplished and semi-defeated for what still lies ahead. I have tried everything with steamers and different types of spray on wall paper remover. Honestly there just isn’t a good way to do it. Especially when you have multiple layers. One of the down stairs rooms had about 5 layers of wall paper on it. No, that little rolly wheel thing didn’t work either for perforating the paper. I mean it worked, just not…
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I tapped the first three this year Feb 2, 2020. About two week earlier than last year. It’s running too! The next day I went out and collect 32 gallons of sap from my 50 buckets. I honestly forgot how much work it always is. Had to get out all my gear and despite cleaning it before putting it away, some looked as if they needed to be cleaned again. So I did. Had to order all the new filters that I needed for both the filtration and also my reverse osmosis setup. Then I had to run water through the reverse osmosis to make sure the filters were cleaned…
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It happened sooner than expected, but we got that first dreaded phone call that the heat was out only a month into owning the place. Thankfully, I knew the company that serviced the furnace and called them up, they came over and quickly diagnosed and fixed the furnace (a malfunction in the thermometer, so just a replacement was needed) and the heat was back on and running! This scenario made me realize that while I knew exactly who to call, my wife would not. I will be on a work trip sometime next month and if I wasn’t around I’m not sure this would have been handled as quickly and…
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I hold the keys to my new rental property! We are very excited to get started down this new avenue of active/semi-passive investing. Currently the right side is rented and the left side just emptied out which is perfect timing. Now we can do some needed updates and fixes so the house will be as worry free as we can make it. I want to spend the money now so I will not need to do so later. Immediate to do list: Switch the electrical over Call the town and make sure the water and sewer are switched over Switch over the gas Meet with handyman on work that needs…
