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Ah, yes. Stress...we meet again. Here it is the 23rd of the month and one of my tenants has yet to pay her rent. On the 21st, I sent a quick email noting that I had yet to receive the rent for the month of October and calculating the amount now due with the late penalties. In the past 6 months, this particular tenant has been late 4 times. This was the second letter I have sent demanding payment of the rent. My request for payment was met with an emailed response calling me rude and informing me of the Tenant's Rights. With Google, my tenant is a lawyer. It annoys me that this particular Tenant wants to inform me of their rights yet ignores my right to receive timely rent payments. Eviction is a pain in the butt. Sometimes you go 60 days without receiving any money while you wait for a judgment to get someone out of a property. This tenant informed me that they will be out at the conclusion of their lease which is December. Trying to rent a house in December is not easy as most people do not want to move right before Christmas. In addition, my family vacation is planned as of December 27th and I was looking forward to the excitement of that rather than dealing with a tenant who may or may not be out of the property. All night I tossed and turned over what I should do. I think I normally would have sat up late at night munching on unhealthy foods while I debated the matter. I didn't eat. But, I've concluded that renting properties adds a stress to my life that is unhealthy. It is not particularly profitable once I calculate the repairs and money I sink into houses and subtract the rental income (which is often unreliable). While I have had some excellent tenants, I have equally had some deadbeat tenants. Right now, the real estate wheel of fortune gave me deadbeats in all properties. I believe I will sell the house where this tenant resides. There is a mortgage on that property. I have sunk about 75K into the house over and above the mortgage. I don't like paying a mortgage on an empty house...or a full house where a tenant has chosen to live for free until I can get a judgment forcing them to move. I suspect I will take a huge loss. But, perhaps I won't be spending my nights tossing and turning. Or, receiving emails from tenants who do not bother to pay their rent informing me of laws that are not even enacted in the jurisdiction where the home is situated. I'm not a slumlord. I understand that people sometimes fall on hard times. However, this tenant has a well-paying job. She just is terrible with her money and prioritizing payments. I personally lived in the house that I am renting to her. I had initially hoped to let tenants live there until my son was older and moved out on his own. I thought it would be a good home for him to start his family. But, frankly there are a lot of bad memories in the house too. I am not sure that my son would want to live there due to its location...and I am certain he may have some bad memories there himself. And, I have another house closer to mine that he could always move in. It is currently vacant since the last tenant also chose not to pay her rent. No bad memories there though. I may list it cheap and take a massive loss on it. I've thought about an auction, but I do not know that I will recover enough money at auction for it to cover the mortgage. Perhaps the real estate market has picked up? I do hope so as I do not want the property to sit vacant for months on end. I could stage the house with some furniture and park a car in the drive to keep vandals from breaking into it. I suppose I should just focus on the first task of getting the current deadbeats out of the house.
Tonight I should run. I just walked yesterday 3.0 miles. It was nice, but I spent most of the time obsessing in my mind about the tenant. I can usually clear my mind when I walk or run. But, sometimes my obsessive mind just replays the same thoughts over and over. Maybe I will try to run so fast that all I can think of is..."try to breath".
Husband has lost so much weight. He is within ten pounds of his goal weight. He has complained lately though that he has lost no weight in the last week. I sometimes catch him walking or jogging two times a day. I can appreciate his determination. I think the last ten pounds must be the hardest. To me, he already looks great. But, I understand that he wants to lose the last ten for himself. When this started, he sort of tagged along because I asked him to be supportive of me. But, now he is focused on doing it for himself. I'm proud of him. And, he is still supportive.
Last night I made us both a stuffed portabella mushroom cap. I just took the cap and sprayed it with some of the zero calorie canola cooking spray. I then put fresh, raw baby spinach on it. I layered it with 1 tablespoon of real bacon bits, 1/4 cup of blue cheese and 1/4 cup of fat-free mozzarella. I baked it in the oven for about 15-20 minutes on 350. VIOLA! For only 195 calories, it was amazing! I didn't take any photos or post it up as a recipe because it simply did not last that long on the plate. I'm not sure where my idea to make it came from, I just started throwing stuff together that sounded good. I have no idea what I will fix for dinner tonight. Wednesday is usually my long, tedious day at work. But, today the person who generally makes it long and tedious is gone. So I should be home at a decent hour.
I am anxious to see what I weigh now. I will wait until Monday to weigh in. I think some of the anxiousness is because I am looking to see a drop to improve my mood. Clearly I cannot control tenants paying me on time. But, I may be dropping into the thoughts of "controlling my weight" when all else seems in chaos. I know, I know. Food disorder thoughts. I need to find a balance between my work, family and eating habits. I tend to focus all of my energy to control one or two of those aspects while the third aspect jumps on its independent roller coaster. I need balance. And, I need to accept things that are beyond my control (ie., tenants not paying on time) and then just respond appropriately to those things.
View Diet Calendar, 23 October 2013:
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1288 kcal
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Fat: 72.86g | Prot: 72.26g | Carbs: 106.33g.
Breakfast: Butterball Low Fat Turkey Bacon, General Mills Cheerios, Milk (Nonfat). Lunch: Grapes, Woeber's Sweet & Spicy Mustard, Sargento Ultra Thin Sliced Provolone Cheese, Hillshire Farm Deli Select Roast Beef, EarthGrains 35 Calorie Wheat Bread. Dinner: Ken's Steak House Fat Free Ranch Dressing, Subway Oven Roasted Chicken Breast Salad. Snacks/Other: Dippin' Stix sliced apples, peanut butter & chocolate, Planters NUT-rition Heart Healthy Mix. more...
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2551 kcal
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Exercise:
Weight Training (moderate) - 5 minutes, Calisthenics (light, e.g. home exercise) - 5 minutes, Walking (exercise) - 3.5/mph - 1 hour and 5 minutes, Sleeping - 22 hours and 45 minutes. more...
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