3 things: health, work, church

I am about 90% recovered from my cold, which is to say that while I am still tired, I am no longer wrung-out like a threadbare dishcloth, and while my nose is intermittently stuffy, it's not dripping and I can mostly breathe through my nostrils. Also my throat is back to normal so I can once again drink moderately caustic liquids such as Coke and alcohol. :)

Anyway! Moving on.

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Today I started work on creating a parking tenant spreadsheet for 2022-23, which is something I started to do back in the fall of 2020 (I made a template and partially filled in a sheet for the 2020-21 lease year) but it got put aside in favor of more pressing tasks and I never even started a file for 2021-22. But we need one in order to report on parking rental percentages to Company Owner, so guess what just got shoved to the top of my priority list. *sigh*

Ah well, the spreadsheet will be useful to have for general reference (MUCH more searchable than RentManager!), and the act of putting it together has led me to correct a bunch of minor parking glitches since I'm doing this by hand rather than running a RentManager query and then debugging the results, since that would probably take just as much time given the amount of debugging required. *deeper sigh*

In leasing news, we have suddenly been slammed by tour requests, which is good but annoying because they eat time I need for other tasks and only sometimes result in leases. We're also renting a worryingly high number of multi-bed apartments to incomplete groups who assure us they're going to find an additional roommate to split the rent, but can they sign now to lock everything down? Well, as long as they understand that even if they don't find that hypothetical roommate, they will still be responsible for the same total monthly rent and a much higher percentage will fall on them personally... we will allow it.

We try hard to talk people down from that choice, though. Because the thing is, a lease is a binding legal contract. You can't back out later on by saying, "Oh, but I signed on the assumption that I'd find a roommate, and without a roommate I can't afford the apartment." You're still on the hook -- and you're less likely to get judicial sympathy or rent assistance than a person who found themself unable to pay rent due to job loss or sudden medical problems. There's a difference between unexpected hardship and unfounded optimism, you know?

Frankly, rental companies prefer you to be in an apartment that we know you can securely pay for. Inability to pay rent is bad for both lessor and lessee, and nobody wants to face evictions. (Seriously. Landlords don't like evicting people. Evictions are a sign that something went wrong, and they are a giant headache for all involved.)

Don't be a goofus. Budget carefully! And don't sign contracts you can't live with!

Thus endeth today's life advice from the rental office. *wry*

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Tonight was the monthly FUSIT board of trustees meeting, which was actually fairly productive! I abstained from one vote because I continue to feel that the proposal in question wasn't ready for a vote and needed more reworking, but it otherwise passed unanimously and the perfect is the enemy of the good, so hopefully the muddled bits will shake out in practice.

And now I need to go figure out where I put the minutes of last year's annual meeting, because we need to have them ready to be approved at this year's annual meeting, which we just scheduled for May 25. I very deliberately put them somewhere sensible, which is why I now have no fucking clue where to find them. *headdesk*