Fire!! In A Sensational Way

My day started out on a stressful note this morning. I was running late with kids and in the rush hour traffic, I get a phone call from Amanda on my cell phone. She says “we’ve had a fire”. My heart panics, thinking I can’t do this again! So I immediately call Paul and sure [...]

You’ve Been Red-Listed

I’m not quite sure what “red-listed” means, but it’s a good term that just slipped out while talking to once again another nut-job in this property management business. Last week, we had a Tenant and her sister come by and fill out and application for one of our smaller units. She told us that it [...]

Desperately Seeking Sump Pumps!

This blog really isn’t the weather channel blog. But for some reason I seem to keep writing about snow, ice storms, a crazy pendulum swinging temperatures. Believe it or not, weather plays a huge part in managing over 200 rental properties. Over the last 24 hours, Springfield has received 7+ inches of rain flooding out [...]

A Company with an Attitude

Property Management can be a tough business. It can be hard when there are some Tenants that lie to you, destroy your house, don’t return your phone calls and even worse…don’t pay their rent. But if you have the right attitude you can certainly deal with anything that a quirky Tenant throws your way. Therefore, [...]

Getting Back To My Good Habits

My husband just recently got a new phone. He dumped the 4 year old Motorola Razr and upgraded to a Blackberry Pearl (which really is a nice phone). Which means that he now has unlimited internet access, e-mail and text messaging. Where I saw this as the unlimited bliss of NOW HE CAN’T IGNORE ME. [...]

Could You Schedule My Court Eviction for After 5pm?

I’m thinking about re-naming this blog to “Dumb Things That Tenants Say”. Besides the occasional blog-hater comment (usually written anonymously by a past hot-head Tenant) that I receive and delete every so often, I usually get a really good response off this blog. Maybe it’s because I keep writing about the idiotic things I hear [...]

I hate ice storms.

I hate ice storms. The thing is, this one caught us by surprise over last year’s big ice storm. Luckily we didn’t lose power, but we lost several tree limbs. Ty and I live on 6 acres just outside the city and we have TONS of trees. Well, they came crashing down with 2” of [...]

Objection! Bring It On.

When are people gonna learn not to go up against Dizmang Properties? I love it when a Tenant doesn’t get their way and then they get mad and immediately throw around the terms “I’m Gonna Call My Attorney”. Yet when you ask them the name of their attorney you get a response of “…um…uh….I’m not [...]

What Keeps Me Busy

Obviously from the lack of recent blog posts, I’m sure you can boil it down to the fact that I’ve just been really busy. You’ve been there right? No sleep, tired fingers, and the piles keep growing. So here is what I’ve been up to lately: 1) The JDRF. Yes I am beginning to see [...]

Just a Few 2007 Cheers & Jeers

As we usher in 2008, here are the “Cheers & Jeers” for our office for 2007: JEER! January Ice Storm. Knocking out power to 70% of Springfield for 10 days was not a fun time in the world of property management where we manage 175+ rental units and had several fit-to-be-tied Tenants that took their [...]

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