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edenfallingThings done today:
1. Rapidly un-staged the 3-bedroom and 1-bedroom apartments as/after Mr. Geniality and Lawyer Man videoed them in order to stage three studios, which they then duly videoed. I then photographed the latter two studios because I didn't yet have pictures of them. Then I un-staged everything and took all materials back to my office.
That whole process was supposed to start at 10:30am. In practice (because of Lawyer Man; hands up everyone who's surprised *headdesk*), it started around 11:15am and I had everything taken down by 12:45pm, because I am efficient thank you very much.
2. More tour no-shows, blargh.
3. Inspected several apartments with Maintenance Guy. Most had one or two minor issues which Maintenance Guy said he'd take care of, so I signed off on the inspections.
4. Signed off on a couple invoices for apartment turnover submitted by our current subcontractor, verifying that the apartments had passed inspection. (Often after a few tweaks, at least half of which Maintenance Guy did himself rather than wait for Subcontractor Dude to return and handle them, but still.) Maintenance Guy also signed off on them. This was at the behest of... hmmm... Mr. Suck-up is too mean, and Mr. Has-the-Ear is a little obscure. Mr. All Hat, maybe? (All hat and no cattle.) Yeah, let's call him Mr. All Hat. Mr. All Hat has an ill-defined position within Company Owner's assorted businesses, which nominally consists of being Company Owner's right-hand man but in practice consists of being a nuisance to everyone who's actually on the ground trying to get stuff done. But it's probably for the best that he got me and Maintenance Guy to verify that the apartments had actually been turned over before writing the checks to Subcontractor Dude. I just think there should have been A) a better-defined process for that and B) a better-written contract that held Subcontractor Dude to more actual repair/maintenance work in addition to clear-out and cleaning.
5. Maintenance Dude (not the same as Maintenance Guy -- this one is Mom Boss's husband and one of the joint department heads whereas Maintenance Guy is more like the head of Commons operations) gave me admin privileges on my office computer so I can now restart the print spooler and/or remove and reinstall the printer the next time they go squirrelly. It is nice to have control over one's own devices, you know? (It's also nice to have a functional printer.)
6. Helped Maintenance Dude put together a display sign for the Commons office, which we will start moving outside during business hours. Maintenance will also apparently be installing banners on the upper outside walls of the building tomorrow and Sunday, so we'll see if that A) brings in more foot traffic and B) helps clue people in that my office is no long the old Pack-and-Ship store. *sigh*
7. Answered some inquiries and arranged three tours for late afternoon/early evening on Saturday. Two people replied to confirm. We'll see if any of them show up!
8. Set up three one-box mini-studio staging kits, because our mini-studio buildings have no elevators and it's helpful to be able to lug everything upstairs in a single relatively lightweight box. Each box contains the following: 1 comforter, 1 pillow, 1 desk lamp, 1 towel, 1 washcloth, 1 fake plant, assorted knick-knacks, and assorted soap and toothbrush stuff. Sometimes there's also a tissue box, an extra fake plant, a second towel, or a second fake plant, and if I have some space left over, I'll chuck in a decorative throw pillow.
The idea is to make the units look nice and inviting without necessarily making them look lived-in. Also, the knick-knack choices are based entirely on weight and ease of transport -- most of them are not things I'd ever choose if I were actually decorating an apartment, though obviously I make an effort to arrange them in a vaguely tasteful fashion.
9. Nagged Mr. Geniality into coming back down to the Commons around 5pm, whereupon we took two staging kits over to the most distant building, staged two mini-studios, and took video of them both. I also took photos of one, since it was only turned over today. (I photographed the other one last week.) We made a plan to tackle the other mini-studio building tomorrow between 11am and 1pm, which is the gap between my Board of Trustees Zoom meeting and my BoT-plus-church-staff Zoom meeting. We want to hit three units on the 3rd floor and three on the 2nd -- a typical one and then some oddballs on each floor.
If I have time left over after my evening tours, I'd like to stage another three full studios and take photos of them. We can get by without videos, but we currently have very poor photos of two of those studios, and no photos whatsoever of the third.
Ms. Rise-and-Shine sent me an email that implies her daughter-in-law will be on hand tomorrow to help with videos, but for my own sanity I am assuming either that she'll be working entirely at the South Hill properties (which, to be fair, need a lot of videos!) or that if she comes downtown, I can show her how to combine my mini-studio staging kits plus my kitchen staging materials and spare throw pillows to make a full studio staging kit or even a multi-bedroom apartment staging kit (that one requires table settings, which I have. possibly also the defunct coffee maker if we're feeling fancy) and let her have at it while I'm busy with my Zoom meetings.
10. Continued slowly uploading my shiny new photos to the website. I also uploaded all my photos from Wednesday-Friday to the downtown office Google account's photo albums (an account which I created, thank you very much!) for Miss Cactus to access when creating and editing ads.
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Some day I should do a cast-of-characters post about the rental company. But today is not that day.
1. Rapidly un-staged the 3-bedroom and 1-bedroom apartments as/after Mr. Geniality and Lawyer Man videoed them in order to stage three studios, which they then duly videoed. I then photographed the latter two studios because I didn't yet have pictures of them. Then I un-staged everything and took all materials back to my office.
That whole process was supposed to start at 10:30am. In practice (because of Lawyer Man; hands up everyone who's surprised *headdesk*), it started around 11:15am and I had everything taken down by 12:45pm, because I am efficient thank you very much.
2. More tour no-shows, blargh.
3. Inspected several apartments with Maintenance Guy. Most had one or two minor issues which Maintenance Guy said he'd take care of, so I signed off on the inspections.
4. Signed off on a couple invoices for apartment turnover submitted by our current subcontractor, verifying that the apartments had passed inspection. (Often after a few tweaks, at least half of which Maintenance Guy did himself rather than wait for Subcontractor Dude to return and handle them, but still.) Maintenance Guy also signed off on them. This was at the behest of... hmmm... Mr. Suck-up is too mean, and Mr. Has-the-Ear is a little obscure. Mr. All Hat, maybe? (All hat and no cattle.) Yeah, let's call him Mr. All Hat. Mr. All Hat has an ill-defined position within Company Owner's assorted businesses, which nominally consists of being Company Owner's right-hand man but in practice consists of being a nuisance to everyone who's actually on the ground trying to get stuff done. But it's probably for the best that he got me and Maintenance Guy to verify that the apartments had actually been turned over before writing the checks to Subcontractor Dude. I just think there should have been A) a better-defined process for that and B) a better-written contract that held Subcontractor Dude to more actual repair/maintenance work in addition to clear-out and cleaning.
5. Maintenance Dude (not the same as Maintenance Guy -- this one is Mom Boss's husband and one of the joint department heads whereas Maintenance Guy is more like the head of Commons operations) gave me admin privileges on my office computer so I can now restart the print spooler and/or remove and reinstall the printer the next time they go squirrelly. It is nice to have control over one's own devices, you know? (It's also nice to have a functional printer.)
6. Helped Maintenance Dude put together a display sign for the Commons office, which we will start moving outside during business hours. Maintenance will also apparently be installing banners on the upper outside walls of the building tomorrow and Sunday, so we'll see if that A) brings in more foot traffic and B) helps clue people in that my office is no long the old Pack-and-Ship store. *sigh*
7. Answered some inquiries and arranged three tours for late afternoon/early evening on Saturday. Two people replied to confirm. We'll see if any of them show up!
8. Set up three one-box mini-studio staging kits, because our mini-studio buildings have no elevators and it's helpful to be able to lug everything upstairs in a single relatively lightweight box. Each box contains the following: 1 comforter, 1 pillow, 1 desk lamp, 1 towel, 1 washcloth, 1 fake plant, assorted knick-knacks, and assorted soap and toothbrush stuff. Sometimes there's also a tissue box, an extra fake plant, a second towel, or a second fake plant, and if I have some space left over, I'll chuck in a decorative throw pillow.
The idea is to make the units look nice and inviting without necessarily making them look lived-in. Also, the knick-knack choices are based entirely on weight and ease of transport -- most of them are not things I'd ever choose if I were actually decorating an apartment, though obviously I make an effort to arrange them in a vaguely tasteful fashion.
9. Nagged Mr. Geniality into coming back down to the Commons around 5pm, whereupon we took two staging kits over to the most distant building, staged two mini-studios, and took video of them both. I also took photos of one, since it was only turned over today. (I photographed the other one last week.) We made a plan to tackle the other mini-studio building tomorrow between 11am and 1pm, which is the gap between my Board of Trustees Zoom meeting and my BoT-plus-church-staff Zoom meeting. We want to hit three units on the 3rd floor and three on the 2nd -- a typical one and then some oddballs on each floor.
If I have time left over after my evening tours, I'd like to stage another three full studios and take photos of them. We can get by without videos, but we currently have very poor photos of two of those studios, and no photos whatsoever of the third.
Ms. Rise-and-Shine sent me an email that implies her daughter-in-law will be on hand tomorrow to help with videos, but for my own sanity I am assuming either that she'll be working entirely at the South Hill properties (which, to be fair, need a lot of videos!) or that if she comes downtown, I can show her how to combine my mini-studio staging kits plus my kitchen staging materials and spare throw pillows to make a full studio staging kit or even a multi-bedroom apartment staging kit (that one requires table settings, which I have. possibly also the defunct coffee maker if we're feeling fancy) and let her have at it while I'm busy with my Zoom meetings.
10. Continued slowly uploading my shiny new photos to the website. I also uploaded all my photos from Wednesday-Friday to the downtown office Google account's photo albums (an account which I created, thank you very much!) for Miss Cactus to access when creating and editing ads.
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Some day I should do a cast-of-characters post about the rental company. But today is not that day.
