The Cluster F#&K Continues

Wow, the new job is freaking chaos. I have been going non-stop since Monday.  And unfortunately, the lack of support from the management company is apparent. We (Kelly and I) posted notes on the doors of all the units telling them about the change over, and honestly, every single email I have gotten back from current tenants has something along the lines of, "Looking forward to meeting you and having competent managers in the building!" That was a cut and paste from the latest email.

We are in a building of 38 units and right now there are 9 vacancies. Well, on Wednesday our boss had his weekly meeting discussing the vacancy rate in buildings and our building was top of the list. So I'm guessing he got his ass reamed, and no doubt blamed us (since we had anything at all to do with it - couldn't have been the fuck up they hired before us). Well, he comes over to the building and walks the vacancies with us. That went really well, he was not afraid to spend some money to replace fridges, new flooring, etc. So he writes down all these work orders to put into the maintenance company. Tells us he will take care of submitting all the stuff.  This was Wednesday at like 3pm.  It's now Friday, I call the maintenance company, no work orders submitted. What the fucking, FUCK? Call boss, his reply, "I'll follow up with them." Bitch, I'm going to come down there and punch you in the fucking throat!

I have been showing apartments non-stop for the past 3 days and you can't do me a favor and DO YOUR JOB?!  Needless to say, I'm keeping detailed notes on everything we are doing, appoints for showing apartments, and doing everything through email so there is a valid paper trail of work. Just try to throw me under the bus bitch, I'll pimp slap you.

The saga continues...

The new job.

So, the new job is locked down. We will officially be taking aover as the Apartment Manager Sept 1st. All I have to say is- what a fucking cluster fuck! The management company that is running this show is soooooo disorganized. I'm afraid. It's really no wonder that the last 5 have all failed so miserably. I'm guessing I will pretty much be on my own. We'll see how much support I get. It really is unfortunate because the building has potential, the units are really kickass, but fuck if we can get 4 washers and 4 dryers for a 36 unit building all working at the same time.

I have done two training 'sessions' thus far. One for their computer software - which I need to VPN to their system to use, and oh btw it doesn't work with Macs. I'll have to see about upgrading to OS 10.5 and using Bootcamp. Hmm, maybe I'll just purchase the OS out of their petty cash.

The second bit of training was last night. My direct manager went over signing leases and landlord tennant laws, etc. Let me describe how the meeting went. (Mind you, I have NEVER done anything like this before).

"When going over the lease, you should have them sign here, here, and here. They need to print their name here. Collect money. Here is a packet about landlord tennant laws, you should read that. Any questions? Good, see if you can fill the 6 vacancies before the end of the month."

Us: "We don't have keys, know which units are vacant, have deposit forms, anything that we need to do our job"

Him: "Yeah, you should try to get in touch with the old manager. Alright, if you have any questions email me"

Us: "But..... um..... wtf?"

So yeah, WTF? He gave us absolutely no info but yet wants us to fill the place up. This is going to be a nightmare for the first couple of months. I think once it gets rolling and we are full and really only need to keep the building up, it will be a cake walk.  Also, he informed us that really nothing has been done as far as paperwork goes for the last 4 months, we will need to straighten some of that out. I'll keep you posted.

As for filling units - anyone in the Capitol Hill area of Seattle looking for a 1 bedroom???

The LAN Cometh!

Well, only a couple of days and we will all be drunk and jumping on pool tables. Can't wait! It's going to be great to see everyone and hang.

I'll be offline until then, so see you all then!

BC

Oh, forgot to say, the interview yesterday went really really well. I would say that we are over a 95% lock. So thanks for the well wishes, I'll keep you posted.

Potential new job

The wife and I are about to go interview for the position of Apartment Manger here at our building. We have been here for about a year and a half and the building has had five (yes 5) managers in that time.  We put in our resume, which has no such experience on it, but I don't think that's a problem.  We are actually meeting with the owner of the building rather than just the management company. Pretty unheard of really. 

So here's hoping it goes well.

Saturday Afternoon Projecting

So I don't blog much, as you can tell since my last post was over a year ago. But I thought I would throw this up here. Yesterday the wife and I were 'Projecting' as she likes to say. I decided to mess around with the time lapse feature of our little point and shoot.  She was making some new additions for her Etsy Shop, and I was putting together a set of stacking drawers she had picked up from Cost Plus the day before. 

Afterwards, I threw the video in to iMovie just to play around. I still have no idea what I'm doing with stuff, but it was kind of fun to mess around with it.  I tried to upload the finished product to YouTube (and Google Video) but they apparently don't like some of the editing stuff that iMovie does because it was all cut out after it was finished uploading.  So instead of embedding it here, I just threw it up on my .mac website.

You can check out the video HERE.