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3 things about work
Feb. 23rd, 2022 11:20 pmThings done today:
1. Updated all rents on our website and in every single goddamn online ad we have posted anywhere. (Or at least I updated the central aggregator sites from which things like Zumper and so on pull their data, which amounts to the same thing.) I updated a bunch of photos and redirected some email addresses while I was at it. (Inquiries should come to the generic downtown office email, not specifically to Mr. Geniality. The fact that the generic downtown office is currently synced to my company email is a secondary concern. Mostly I want continuity regardless of potential staff turnover, you know?)
2. Failed to send out 90-day notices because of aforementioned rent project, blargh.
3. On a tangentially related note, Ms. Random Numbers also wants me to send out 90-day notices for parking tenants. This reminded me that I really need to make a functional downtown parking spreadsheet. The trouble is that downtown parking lease dates are all over the damn place because they're set up to run concurrently with apartment leases. On the one hand, this makes a certain amount of sense -- especially because downtown parking leases are paid monthly, just like downtown apartment leases. (Or at least, that's how they work if the parking tenant is also a residential tenant. Non-residential parking tenants pay a higher rate in two semi-annual installments.) On the other hand, it means they are a giant mess and any given space can have wildly variant lease dates, total rent amounts, and payment structures from year to year.
I would suggest we switch to the Collegetown model of having completely separate parking and apartment lease date structures, with all parking rent paid semi-annually rather than monthly, but I don't think it would fly. Alas for my as-yet-unborn spreadsheet!
(The main difference is that Collegetown parking is at a frankly absurd premium, and our company has some amazingly well-placed lots thanks to old zoning requirements to include X amount of parking for Y number of apartments -- requirements that have since been waived for most new apartment construction, without sufficient upgrades to neighborhood bus service. Our downtown lot is significantly less conveniently placed vis-à-vis the main commercial neighborhood and apartment buildings that belong to other landlords, so we more-or-less peg parking rents to whatever the municipal parking garages are charging.
On the other hand, we did successfully transition downtown's internet fee structure to a single annual payment instead of 12 monthly payments, so maybe shifting the parking payment structure isn't completely impossible... *ponders options*)
1. Updated all rents on our website and in every single goddamn online ad we have posted anywhere. (Or at least I updated the central aggregator sites from which things like Zumper and so on pull their data, which amounts to the same thing.) I updated a bunch of photos and redirected some email addresses while I was at it. (Inquiries should come to the generic downtown office email, not specifically to Mr. Geniality. The fact that the generic downtown office is currently synced to my company email is a secondary concern. Mostly I want continuity regardless of potential staff turnover, you know?)
2. Failed to send out 90-day notices because of aforementioned rent project, blargh.
3. On a tangentially related note, Ms. Random Numbers also wants me to send out 90-day notices for parking tenants. This reminded me that I really need to make a functional downtown parking spreadsheet. The trouble is that downtown parking lease dates are all over the damn place because they're set up to run concurrently with apartment leases. On the one hand, this makes a certain amount of sense -- especially because downtown parking leases are paid monthly, just like downtown apartment leases. (Or at least, that's how they work if the parking tenant is also a residential tenant. Non-residential parking tenants pay a higher rate in two semi-annual installments.) On the other hand, it means they are a giant mess and any given space can have wildly variant lease dates, total rent amounts, and payment structures from year to year.
I would suggest we switch to the Collegetown model of having completely separate parking and apartment lease date structures, with all parking rent paid semi-annually rather than monthly, but I don't think it would fly. Alas for my as-yet-unborn spreadsheet!
(The main difference is that Collegetown parking is at a frankly absurd premium, and our company has some amazingly well-placed lots thanks to old zoning requirements to include X amount of parking for Y number of apartments -- requirements that have since been waived for most new apartment construction, without sufficient upgrades to neighborhood bus service. Our downtown lot is significantly less conveniently placed vis-à-vis the main commercial neighborhood and apartment buildings that belong to other landlords, so we more-or-less peg parking rents to whatever the municipal parking garages are charging.
On the other hand, we did successfully transition downtown's internet fee structure to a single annual payment instead of 12 monthly payments, so maybe shifting the parking payment structure isn't completely impossible... *ponders options*)
