Nov. 14th, 2017

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What I did today: send ~300 rent reminder emails. Also other miscellaneous file processing/emailing, answered phone calls, and received/distributed All The Packages.

The rent reminder emails are annoying because they're mostly a form letter, but each has to be individually tweaked to use the correct tenant's name, address, and rent amounts. Mom Boss does that part in a giant Word document, transferring the relevant data from FileMaker. Then she turns the file over to me so I can copypaste each letter into Gmail, append signatures and subject lines, and send.

There is doubtless a way to automate the process more, but at the moment this is what we have and it is tedious beyond belief. (I suspect automating the process would also involve getting different software, which, good luck sweet-talking that through management. *sigh*)

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Elizabeth Culmer

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