Today was my 9am-5pm day (my other four work days are 10am-6pm), but I ended up staying to almost 6:30pm (even after Mr. Geniality left for the evening), because I was trying to catch up on work I had been tabling while I tried to get through more immediately urgent tasks.
See, August is basically our hell month. Nobody takes vacation in August. That's not quite a hard and fast company rule -- you'd probably be able to wrangle an exception for a family wedding or birth, and definitely for deaths or whatnot -- but it is darn close. Which is because August is when the vast majority of our old tenants move out and new tenants move in, with very short intervals for us to turn over the apartments.
Turnover, for those not in the rental business, means doing a move-out inspection (aka, what ungodly mess have they left behind?), fixing anything broken, moving furniture in or out, occasional miscellaneous upgrades (new bathroom, new kitchen, whatever), and giving the place a good scrub-down.
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Also there's church Board of Trustees stuff that I totally dropped for two weeks because I couldn't even (there are good reasons I told them not to make me president!), and continuing education requirements for Not the IRS, and at some point my parents want to come visit (and bring me back my hoodie that I forgot at their house in NJ!!!), and I need to do research on buying a car, and and and and and.
*wilts*
At least downtown gets a break between August and the start of rental madness. In Collegetown, it just slams straight from one to the next.
See, August is basically our hell month. Nobody takes vacation in August. That's not quite a hard and fast company rule -- you'd probably be able to wrangle an exception for a family wedding or birth, and definitely for deaths or whatnot -- but it is darn close. Which is because August is when the vast majority of our old tenants move out and new tenants move in, with very short intervals for us to turn over the apartments.
Turnover, for those not in the rental business, means doing a move-out inspection (aka, what ungodly mess have they left behind?), fixing anything broken, moving furniture in or out, occasional miscellaneous upgrades (new bathroom, new kitchen, whatever), and giving the place a good scrub-down.
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Also there's church Board of Trustees stuff that I totally dropped for two weeks because I couldn't even (there are good reasons I told them not to make me president!), and continuing education requirements for Not the IRS, and at some point my parents want to come visit (and bring me back my hoodie that I forgot at their house in NJ!!!), and I need to do research on buying a car, and and and and and.
*wilts*
At least downtown gets a break between August and the start of rental madness. In Collegetown, it just slams straight from one to the next.