oh god can we just be done with the 2020-21 rental cycle already

[edenfalling]

Things done today:

1. Un-staged a 3-bedroom third-floor apartment in a building with no elevator. Hauled all the materials down two flights of stairs and lugged them (on a cart, I'm not a masochist unless necessity makes me play one on TV) to a 3-bedroom second-floor apartment in another one of our buildings a block away. Fortunately the second building has an elevator.

Then I went and did other things for several hours until about 4:30pm, at which point I went back and staged the new apartment and took a slightly excessive number of photos. I also took photos of the building entrance, stairwell, and elevator... and then went back and took entrance, stairwell, hallway, and laundry room photos for the first building. *flops*

I need to hit the dollar store and bring a few more items in tomorrow because Mr. Geniality and Lawyer Man will be taking video of the new apartment on Monday morning and it has THREE BATHROOMS (each bedroom has an en suite, wtf, that's absurd) and I didn't have enough bathroom-staging materials since we're leaving a 2-bedroom apartment in a third building staged for tours.

I also want to buy some super-cheap frames that I can fill with printouts of random downloaded art to stick on bookshelves and such, because that's a quick and easy way to add some color and interest to a room. Also some more fake plants. Nothing cheers a room up like greenery, so I like to get at least two fake plants in each room and I do not have enough to make that happen. (I mean, technically I do? But four of them are super-tiny fake succulents that I consider to collectively be "one plant," so in practical terms, no, I need more fake plants.) And then maybe a few more lightweight knick-knacks, because I'm running out of those too, and also it's good to have some variety so the staged rooms don't look too samey.

(On the "don't look too samey" front, one item I have is this completely random large square piece of fabric -- it might have been intended as a wall-hanging??? but it doesn't have properly hemmed edges??? -- that is kind of... think Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album cover, but then stick that on a deep purple background and jam the rest of the space so full of light purple graham-cracker style animal figures that they turn into a sort of white-noise pattern rather than individual images. I have used it a couple times to dress up the foot of a blank white comforter (and used a folded purple leopard-print fleece blanket as a makeshift pillowcase to fit the color scheme), but this time I pinned it to the wall with a few thumbtacks and used the fleece blanket as a little triangle accent on the comforter. I suspect the overall effect is kind of tacky, but hey, at least it's visually memorable!)

2. Took two walk-in prospects on a tour. They may or may not rent; they were looking at a lot of options.

3. Answered a lot of inquiry emails.

4. Fielded some phone calls.

5. Rented a 3-bedroom apartment? The question mark is because the people in question have paid, which is our metric for securing a lease, but there was another group also interested in the apartment and I believe Ms. Random Numbers (tentative nickname for Ms. Rise-and-Shine's coworker in the accounting/leasing department) had sent them lease documents, but they hadn't paid at the time I was talking to this new group and they still hadn't paid by the time I left the office, so. You snooze, you lose.

6. Continued editing photos and uploading them to the website.

7. Discovered that Mr. Geniality or Ms. Rise-and-Shine copied some of their recent staging work into the shared office drive! \o/

...And then I looked a little closer and it's all either video files or still images in HEIC format, which Windows can't read without special programs. *headdesk* Oh well, I will find a converter and MAKE THEM READABLE. (Getting still frames out of the video files will take longer, but again, I will figure out a way and MAKE THAT HAPPEN.)

But goddamn, it's annoying to have coworkers actively making my job harder. I am trying to put nice shiny new attractive images on our website and in our ads! Why are you not HELPING ME???

...

That's basically it.

Tomorrow I think I will try to attend my congregation's virtual coffee hour (maybe even the virtual service, if I get up early enough!), because reasons. Then I will hit a dollar store and do a little apartment staging. I will not bother to clock in, but I deliberately took a twenty-minute mental health break today and will do the same on Wednesday, so I think that should even out to the correct amount of paid time.

Hmm. Although I need to look into Facebook Messenger and/or WhatsApp so I can take over some of the virtual tours that Mr. Geniality is currently handling since he has the right setup on his phone and I do not. And that should probably count as paid time, because I have no non-work-related reason to use either of those services.

...

Yeah, I'll just stay late and read fic on the clock for a bit some evening and that'll even itself out as well.

Comments

[krait]

The fabric sounds interesting! Could you wrap it around a throw pillow and pin it, to bring some color into other rooms? Or use it as a table runner, raw edges tucked under?

Actually, come to think of it, cheap throw pillows in general are probably useful for that.

[edenfalling]

It's too big for a throw pillow -- I could almost use it to cover a full-size bed, except that it's square instead of a rectangle.

I'll see if I can snap a photo sometime this week.