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Oct. 7th, 2022 10:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingThings and stuff:
1. We have sent out the first renewal leases, but only a tiny handful, and I don't expect to send more out any time soon.
The renewal leasing process this year is... let's go with fraught, yes? Basically, the company's expenses have been rising (utilities, maintenance and upgrades, property taxes, etc.) but renewal tenants had been getting very minimal rent increases over the past several years for assorted reasons. So Company Owner decided we needed to jump their rents closer to market rates, which is not unreasonable. Except he did this by applying a flat percentage increase that jumped them A LOT. Like REALLY a lot.
He also applied this flat percentage increase to all apartments across the board, without any consideration for trying to maintain similar rents for similar apartments, or for whether the tenants were newer and had therefore already been paying a reasonable market rate. The leasing agents in both Collegetown and downtown have been trying to push back against this, but we have been having minimal success thus far.
I keep wanting to append, "I'm so sorry! We're trying to fix this!" to every renewal rate email I send out. :(
Anyway, we'll keep trying and hopefully the VERY LOW rate of renewal leases will jog Company Owner into being somewhat more reasonable.
2. I have technically finished my tax prep CE (in that I have completed the required number of credit hours), but I still have some courses in progress because learning is good for its own sake.
3. I cooked actual food two nights ago! I haven't really cooked all summer -- I hate adding heat to my apartment when I have the AC running, and also I never had the spoons -- so it was nice to get back into the saddle, as it were, even if all I made was Laddie's hotdish and steamed broccoli. :)
4. I've been trying to tidy up my office a little bit each day, which has been going moderately well so far. I've thrown out a bunch of stuff left over from my predecessors because upon reflection I had no justification for keeping it, filed some other stuff, and cleared out various items and papers that had been collecting on my desk in an unsorted pile of "things I will deal with at some point". I have also brought in a little bowl to hold my work keys, and I think my next task is to work out a system for actually making use of the wall-mounted filing box thingy that I finally cleared all the old paint samples out of.
5. All my Yuletide nominations have been approved. :D
There are doubtless other things I am forgetting, but that seems like a reasonable place to end a post, so.
1. We have sent out the first renewal leases, but only a tiny handful, and I don't expect to send more out any time soon.
The renewal leasing process this year is... let's go with fraught, yes? Basically, the company's expenses have been rising (utilities, maintenance and upgrades, property taxes, etc.) but renewal tenants had been getting very minimal rent increases over the past several years for assorted reasons. So Company Owner decided we needed to jump their rents closer to market rates, which is not unreasonable. Except he did this by applying a flat percentage increase that jumped them A LOT. Like REALLY a lot.
He also applied this flat percentage increase to all apartments across the board, without any consideration for trying to maintain similar rents for similar apartments, or for whether the tenants were newer and had therefore already been paying a reasonable market rate. The leasing agents in both Collegetown and downtown have been trying to push back against this, but we have been having minimal success thus far.
I keep wanting to append, "I'm so sorry! We're trying to fix this!" to every renewal rate email I send out. :(
Anyway, we'll keep trying and hopefully the VERY LOW rate of renewal leases will jog Company Owner into being somewhat more reasonable.
2. I have technically finished my tax prep CE (in that I have completed the required number of credit hours), but I still have some courses in progress because learning is good for its own sake.
3. I cooked actual food two nights ago! I haven't really cooked all summer -- I hate adding heat to my apartment when I have the AC running, and also I never had the spoons -- so it was nice to get back into the saddle, as it were, even if all I made was Laddie's hotdish and steamed broccoli. :)
4. I've been trying to tidy up my office a little bit each day, which has been going moderately well so far. I've thrown out a bunch of stuff left over from my predecessors because upon reflection I had no justification for keeping it, filed some other stuff, and cleared out various items and papers that had been collecting on my desk in an unsorted pile of "things I will deal with at some point". I have also brought in a little bowl to hold my work keys, and I think my next task is to work out a system for actually making use of the wall-mounted filing box thingy that I finally cleared all the old paint samples out of.
5. All my Yuletide nominations have been approved. :D
There are doubtless other things I am forgetting, but that seems like a reasonable place to end a post, so.
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Date: 2022-10-08 08:33 pm (UTC)