I have been getting my rental property ready to rent and that has meant significant cleaning, organising some repairs and of course getting prospective tenants through to look at it.
I had planned to manage all this myself but I did accept an offer of help to clean up the place from my parents. It was greatly appreciated and the house now looks great.
I then realised that I had a couple of trades people coming over to do some repairs but was not sure if I could get the time from work to be at the house to wait for them and let them in. So I asked my Mum if she would do this.
Of course that is quite a simple task BUT it was the degrees of difficulties that I then added on top of this which was so mean to do to someone else.
You see I got all creative and thought "Ooh the tradesmen could then go to my new house and do some work" - thereby forcing my poor mother to have to let them into two houses and communicate the work that needed doing for me at each (work that I had not clearly briefed her on I might add!!). Then (and to be fair this was not my fault) the real estate agent surprised us by organising an open home at the same time that all this other stuff was happening. So my poor Mum was at my rental waiting for a tradesman and all these people turned up asking her about the rental (which again she had not been told about so did not even know what rent I was asking for!).
Aaarrgh!! Worse daughter EVER!!!
I think it has all worked out in the end, but I have learnt to do my own dirty work rather than forcing it on my poor generous mother!!!
I had planned to manage all this myself but I did accept an offer of help to clean up the place from my parents. It was greatly appreciated and the house now looks great.
I then realised that I had a couple of trades people coming over to do some repairs but was not sure if I could get the time from work to be at the house to wait for them and let them in. So I asked my Mum if she would do this.
Of course that is quite a simple task BUT it was the degrees of difficulties that I then added on top of this which was so mean to do to someone else.
You see I got all creative and thought "Ooh the tradesmen could then go to my new house and do some work" - thereby forcing my poor mother to have to let them into two houses and communicate the work that needed doing for me at each (work that I had not clearly briefed her on I might add!!). Then (and to be fair this was not my fault) the real estate agent surprised us by organising an open home at the same time that all this other stuff was happening. So my poor Mum was at my rental waiting for a tradesman and all these people turned up asking her about the rental (which again she had not been told about so did not even know what rent I was asking for!).
Aaarrgh!! Worse daughter EVER!!!
I think it has all worked out in the end, but I have learnt to do my own dirty work rather than forcing it on my poor generous mother!!!