The beginning of the month

is always the busiest and hardest for us. This is when people move out, rent is due and everyone complains about everything at the same time.

This month we have 3 move outs. Which mean the following
*lots and lots of paperwork ):
*doing walkthroughs with the tenants and letting them know what they need to do to get their deposit back
*doing the final walkthrough and letting them know what they are going to get charged for (if anything)
*calling the painters, carpet cleaners/replacement guys, cleaning guys and getting a maintenance guy to come and do rehab for the apartment, all so they aren't overlapping and it gets done within 3 days of the tenant moving out
*then filling out a closing statement that is due app 14 days after the tenant moves out determining whether they get some or all of their deposit back or have to pay the company more money for leaving their apartment a mess
*if the tenant owes money, getting angry phone calls of why they got charged with bills
this whole process, including all paperwork lasts about a month before things are back to normal with that apartment. Now that isn't including trying to rent out the apartment. Having to put up marketing posters and ads everywhere and then scheduling times for people to come and view the apartments is a whole other story. And then trying to sell people on the apartment is hard as well. I can show an apartment, but then getting them to come back with the application is a problem within itself.

Plus not to mention having rent due the first 3 days of the month. I have to copy all the checks in order of the apartments. We have 44 units. They don't all have the same rent. The tenants don't always pay with just one check, sometimes one, sometimes 3. I can only put 3 checks on a page to copy. You can only imagine the amount of checks I have to copy. Then, after coping them, I have to write on the back of each one the account number. I then have to add them up with their total and put it on the deposit slip. While doing that I have to imput them into an Excel page called "rent roll" which lets me know if the tenant paid all their rent or is short some or over. I then have to go deposit the checks on the 3rd to pay the mortagage, which sometimes means that I don't have all the checks yet because people have until 8 am of the 4th to give me checks. So I have to make multiple trips to the back and to long beach to turn in these checks. IT'S A HASSEl!! Hence, why no one hardly sees up for the first week of the month.

Now writing this out it doesn't seem like that much of work. But it gets overwhelming sometimes. I have to keep track of everything and can't lose anything either. If I do, it's my butt of the line and we could lose our apartment and our job. Pressure much!? Not to mention we only have 1 car so that makes it very difficult to go up to long beach and the bank when I need to. Busy, busy busy.

I just had to get my frustrations out. I will post a more happy post later tonight about the baby and baby showers and all that jazz. Thanks for letting me rant.