Tenants say heat to high in our rental property?

Today I get a call from the front tenant to complain to me about her heat bill.  Someone came out, she said and told her that it was the old windows.   I told her again that she should put up some felt cloth in the windows.  She doesn’t know what that is.   At any rate I took over some shrink plastic for her to put in front of the windows to see if that will Help.  Ultimately they keep the house heat way to high but somehow that’s my fault. 

More fun with the rental property  

But than she told me that the back unit moved out – I go over and sure enough they are gone and the house is a disaster.   It will take some time to fix the bathroom and the kitchen  I hope we can rent it during the winter.   I know what I will be doing for the next couple of weeks.  – Fixing the rental property.   so much fun.  

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Melinda’s class caused some trouble in art class by being noisy and disrespectful.  She told me she was talking but thought that she was being quit enough.  She felt guilty and wrote  a letter of apology to the teacher.   Her teacher told her it was OK.  She had not been that loud.

But yesterday Melinda and most of the rest of the class had to go to the principle’s  office  and he told her she could go to jail for this.  I do realize that my lovely daughter is not perfect but telling her she could go to jail for talking in class is a bit over the top.    What a jerk!!!!!    So she had to write another letter and she has to do community service.   Do not know if she was truly doing something that bad but I will be asking her teacher.

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Panayota and I went up to Black Hawk to do a little bit of gambling .  $30.00′s down  in one hour and it was time to go home.   It was still fun.   The casinos are always  interesting but we are not the type to enjoy losing our money  so we never stay long. Alex ask how much we win and I tell him the reason the casinos are so fancy is because people go there and lose  to them, so they have a lot of money. 

Melinda  made a great card for her mother

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My short e-book needs a cover that will attract some attention. 

My Hell 1

You can guise what the title will be.

my Hell 2 Rental Property

My tenants torture me like demons from the underworld.

Landlord Hell 4

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Pattie truly likes Melinda’s new teacher.

 This teach actually has a plan for the year – one we are aloud to see. She even has contingency plans for kids that are a little faster or maybe having trouble keeping up. She even has the kids read – not to themselves – but out loud to help them with any words they might be having problems with. A teacher that is interacting with the kids. She even posts spelling words the web site weekly. She has a set time of day that she answers her emails – before and after class, not during class. She doesn’t want to be distracted from her students. I like her and I haven’t even met her yet. This teacher has a daily agenda that comes home every evening. Her discipline policy as well as the curriculum for the year is written out so we know and Melinda knows what to expect. What a concept?

talking to mom about school

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