tiny life update
Nov. 4th, 2022 07:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfalling1. I continue to be very tired this week, although this time I know exactly why -- I have been staying up too late at night and therefore not getting enough sleep. Bad Liz, no biscuit. :(
2. Work has been chugging along. Now that we've hit the November renewal deadline, a bunch of people have written in to say, "Yes, actually, I would like to renew after all," so that's good. On the less good side, the spate of renewals in one building resulted in Company Owner deciding he'd priced the apartments there too low and we should take them off the market while he rethought his approach.
Except.
The thing is.
He never actually priced those apartments at all. He gave us renewal rates, which are exactly the same percentage he applied to all the other buildings, but he never provided NEW rates for NEW tenants, so we haven't advertised them anywhere or even properly listed them on our own website!
I really do not understand how he draws such reality-nonadjacent conclusions from the data we send him.
...
3. In completely unrelated news, I reshouldered my job of being The Person Who Keeps People In Touch With Each Other and poked Cat and Susan until we collectively scheduled a Zoom call for next week. \o/ I let that job slide over the summer when everything was just A Lot all the time, but social contact is good and I have known for years that aside from rare blue moon exceptions, if I don't initiate contact among our trio, contact does not happen.
This is not a role that comes naturally to me, but goddammit, I will put in the effort because those friendships are important. :)
I think that's all.
Now I am going to listen to a podcast episode and do some cross-stitch, after which I will attempt to go to sleep at a more reasonable hour. (Last night I yanked my bedtime back from 2am to midnight, so I think today I have a good shot at yanking it back to 10 or 10:30pm! But we shall see how events play out.)
2. Work has been chugging along. Now that we've hit the November renewal deadline, a bunch of people have written in to say, "Yes, actually, I would like to renew after all," so that's good. On the less good side, the spate of renewals in one building resulted in Company Owner deciding he'd priced the apartments there too low and we should take them off the market while he rethought his approach.
Except.
The thing is.
He never actually priced those apartments at all. He gave us renewal rates, which are exactly the same percentage he applied to all the other buildings, but he never provided NEW rates for NEW tenants, so we haven't advertised them anywhere or even properly listed them on our own website!
I really do not understand how he draws such reality-nonadjacent conclusions from the data we send him.
...
3. In completely unrelated news, I reshouldered my job of being The Person Who Keeps People In Touch With Each Other and poked Cat and Susan until we collectively scheduled a Zoom call for next week. \o/ I let that job slide over the summer when everything was just A Lot all the time, but social contact is good and I have known for years that aside from rare blue moon exceptions, if I don't initiate contact among our trio, contact does not happen.
This is not a role that comes naturally to me, but goddammit, I will put in the effort because those friendships are important. :)
I think that's all.
Now I am going to listen to a podcast episode and do some cross-stitch, after which I will attempt to go to sleep at a more reasonable hour. (Last night I yanked my bedtime back from 2am to midnight, so I think today I have a good shot at yanking it back to 10 or 10:30pm! But we shall see how events play out.)
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Date: 2022-11-05 02:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-05 02:52 pm (UTC)But also I think he's having a harder time processing lots of data as he ages -- he's been in business since about 1970, for reference -- and he's falling back on the more hands-on, direct personal control management style he used before modern computers as a compensation technique. Unfortunately that style doesn't work terribly well now that he owns properties in multiple cities and isn't on-site very often. :/
He's also less good at assimilating NEW data that contradicts patterns from previous years, which is a problem because the Ithaca rental market has been changing fairly rapidly over the past decade.
What he really needs is a competent PA to explain and condense reports for him and handle all his data entry tasks, a company VP he can delegate to, or even just a clear succession plan, but he doesn't have any of those in place.