![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
I have been sorting through our apartment staging materials, partly so as to repackage them more efficiently, and partly to weed out items I don't really use.
This is important both because it's silly to store items we have no use for, and more importantly because we cannot rely on our current storage space remaining available. We used to stash South Hill staging items in Mr. All Hat's company-owned apartment, but this summer we finally persuaded Company Owner that holding an entire studio for Mr. All Hat to use like one week a year was a ridiculous waste of money, and we promptly rented it to a Cornell student. So we moved the staging items to an unused office, which is fine for right now but if/when we hire a new commercial leasing agent, we will once again have to move all the totes and boxes in a hurry. We would like to have all staging materials compressed into the minimum amount of containers at that point.
(Background: the office is currently unused because Mr. Commercial was let go a few months back, which means Lawyer Man and Mr. Geniality have been handling all commercial leases and Ms. Random Numbers has been managing the housing development in Freeville that is technically not part of our company because Company Owner transferred ownership to his sister a couple years ago... even though his sister ALSO technically owns a couple buildings on the Commons that we do manage as if they're part of the main company. *headdesk* Family-owned business conglomerates are a mess, FYI.)
Anyway, I have mostly dealt with the South Hill items, and today I took a newly empty tote (courtesy of my compression and removal efforts) down to the Commons to start sorting those. The Commons staging materials are currently in an empty storefront -- the third storefront where they've been stashed. The first was the temporary Commons office that I shared with Mr. Commercial, but we rented that to a guy who swore up and down that he was opening a convenience store but actually opened a headshop. (Which, there is nothing wrong with a headshop -- we have another headshop as a tenant in a different building, and used to have two more headshop tenants before Covid-19, but the lying is a bad sign. Also the owner got us to rent a studio efficiency to one of his employees. Said employee was constantly behind on rent, overstayed the end of their lease by several days and left the apartment in such bad condition they got $0 of their security deposit back, and yet the headshop owner kept trying to get us to rent to them again. Not a great resume, TBH.)
The second storage area was a different empty storefront, which we just rented last week. This means that all the staging materials as well as all the office supplies have now been moved twice in a massive, hurried jumble. They also contained a bunch of items that Aunt Boss sent down from the Collegetown office over the past three years because she was done using them for staging. Some of those I adopted into my own staging rotation, but a bunch were junk that I never got around to throwing out.
So today I started weeding through the reams of nonsense in that empty storefront. Thus far, I removed two garbage bags full of nonsense. Tomorrow I want to finish the job, which I expect will result in several more bags of nonsense and hopefully a much tidier set of totes and boxes to hold the remaining staging materials.
...
I think I still need to get Ms. Random Numbers to order me another two totes. They are much more useful than miscellaneous cardboard boxes scavenged from gods only know where.
...
Also I think we should be able to steal the two bookcases that were part of the office supplies and use them as tenant furniture, which is what they were originally. Maybe also the microwave and the mini-fridge. They're certainly not serving any useful purpose now.
This is important both because it's silly to store items we have no use for, and more importantly because we cannot rely on our current storage space remaining available. We used to stash South Hill staging items in Mr. All Hat's company-owned apartment, but this summer we finally persuaded Company Owner that holding an entire studio for Mr. All Hat to use like one week a year was a ridiculous waste of money, and we promptly rented it to a Cornell student. So we moved the staging items to an unused office, which is fine for right now but if/when we hire a new commercial leasing agent, we will once again have to move all the totes and boxes in a hurry. We would like to have all staging materials compressed into the minimum amount of containers at that point.
(Background: the office is currently unused because Mr. Commercial was let go a few months back, which means Lawyer Man and Mr. Geniality have been handling all commercial leases and Ms. Random Numbers has been managing the housing development in Freeville that is technically not part of our company because Company Owner transferred ownership to his sister a couple years ago... even though his sister ALSO technically owns a couple buildings on the Commons that we do manage as if they're part of the main company. *headdesk* Family-owned business conglomerates are a mess, FYI.)
Anyway, I have mostly dealt with the South Hill items, and today I took a newly empty tote (courtesy of my compression and removal efforts) down to the Commons to start sorting those. The Commons staging materials are currently in an empty storefront -- the third storefront where they've been stashed. The first was the temporary Commons office that I shared with Mr. Commercial, but we rented that to a guy who swore up and down that he was opening a convenience store but actually opened a headshop. (Which, there is nothing wrong with a headshop -- we have another headshop as a tenant in a different building, and used to have two more headshop tenants before Covid-19, but the lying is a bad sign. Also the owner got us to rent a studio efficiency to one of his employees. Said employee was constantly behind on rent, overstayed the end of their lease by several days and left the apartment in such bad condition they got $0 of their security deposit back, and yet the headshop owner kept trying to get us to rent to them again. Not a great resume, TBH.)
The second storage area was a different empty storefront, which we just rented last week. This means that all the staging materials as well as all the office supplies have now been moved twice in a massive, hurried jumble. They also contained a bunch of items that Aunt Boss sent down from the Collegetown office over the past three years because she was done using them for staging. Some of those I adopted into my own staging rotation, but a bunch were junk that I never got around to throwing out.
So today I started weeding through the reams of nonsense in that empty storefront. Thus far, I removed two garbage bags full of nonsense. Tomorrow I want to finish the job, which I expect will result in several more bags of nonsense and hopefully a much tidier set of totes and boxes to hold the remaining staging materials.
...
I think I still need to get Ms. Random Numbers to order me another two totes. They are much more useful than miscellaneous cardboard boxes scavenged from gods only know where.
...
Also I think we should be able to steal the two bookcases that were part of the office supplies and use them as tenant furniture, which is what they were originally. Maybe also the microwave and the mini-fridge. They're certainly not serving any useful purpose now.
