poodaddy
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Pretty much the thread title. My wife and I, (me for our own property and my wife as both co-owner of our property and a manager for a management company) work in property management, but our property isn't pulling in the income that we want from it right now. I raised the rent on our tenants since we finally can, but we honestly need to move out if we want this property to be really producing some revenue. That being said, our current "unit" that we live in on our owned property is pretty big for our needs. We've got about 2000 livable square footage and four bed rooms, and as a result I have a 15000 dollar home gym set up in my garage that would make any gym rat jelly, so we live comfortably, but money could be less tight for sure. We drive more than I'd like, gas is crazy expensive, and I don't much like the city that we own our property in.
Enter my wife's new management opportunity. She's been offered an incredibly easy job, (it's a sixteen unit property, if you've worked in management then you know that this isn't even twenty hours of work a week), with a compensation of a free two bed room apartment and a thousand a month, which would allow us to rent out our four bed room here and move out of it, and for a four bed room in this area we can easily get 1900 a month. It's also in a far more metropolitan area where literally everything we need, (coffee shops, groceries, entertainment, storage, parks, school, physical therapists, dentist, doctor, you name it), is in walking distance, so we'd be saving massive amounts on gas costs and wear and tear on the vehicle. We would effectively be making far more every month, but my beautiful home gym would be no more, and I shutter to imagine my gorgeous training equipment languishing in a storage unit.
We also agreed that we were done with apartment living for any number of obvious reasons, but we'll just say I like to enjoy my music and games loud, I have a nine year old who likes drumming, (as do I), and playing keyboard, and my wife tends to scream during certain.....activities, when she feels free, which I kind of dig. If we were back in apartments we're effectively subject to all the same bullshit that we hated about that, even though she'd be the manager and it's a very small property, so I imagine it wouldn't be that bad, and a few thousand more a month is a nice cushion to the blow. There's also work life balance to consider, she wouldn't be working very much at this job at all, of course we still need to manage our own property here, but it's pretty damn easy to be honest.
All in all, between both properties and between the two of us, we'd be splitting around 20 to 30 hours a week of work right down the middle, and we'd be pulling in upwards of 6 grand a month with no living expenses at all, (utilities are paid as well), if she were to take this job, but our living space would be cut in half and we'd be losing our home gym that we absolutely adore and we'd back in apartments again. So my question to you Gaffers, if you survived this diatribe thus far, is simple. You're now my wife, (and you're looking goddamn good too by the way), and I wanna know what you'd do in this situation. Do you take the job for the extra money and accept the hit to life comforts? Or, alternatively, do you say fuck the money, I need to own and I need to be able to do what I want, when I want, as loud as I want, on my property? Just looking for view points here, thanks for your time Gaffers who now happen to be my wife and are about to get it later tonight when they put on that stringy thing I like.
EDIT: FUCK! Just noticed the stupid typo in the title that makes me sound like a caveman lol. Uh......it's early and I haven't had but one cup of coffee, no judgment allowed.
Enter my wife's new management opportunity. She's been offered an incredibly easy job, (it's a sixteen unit property, if you've worked in management then you know that this isn't even twenty hours of work a week), with a compensation of a free two bed room apartment and a thousand a month, which would allow us to rent out our four bed room here and move out of it, and for a four bed room in this area we can easily get 1900 a month. It's also in a far more metropolitan area where literally everything we need, (coffee shops, groceries, entertainment, storage, parks, school, physical therapists, dentist, doctor, you name it), is in walking distance, so we'd be saving massive amounts on gas costs and wear and tear on the vehicle. We would effectively be making far more every month, but my beautiful home gym would be no more, and I shutter to imagine my gorgeous training equipment languishing in a storage unit.
We also agreed that we were done with apartment living for any number of obvious reasons, but we'll just say I like to enjoy my music and games loud, I have a nine year old who likes drumming, (as do I), and playing keyboard, and my wife tends to scream during certain.....activities, when she feels free, which I kind of dig. If we were back in apartments we're effectively subject to all the same bullshit that we hated about that, even though she'd be the manager and it's a very small property, so I imagine it wouldn't be that bad, and a few thousand more a month is a nice cushion to the blow. There's also work life balance to consider, she wouldn't be working very much at this job at all, of course we still need to manage our own property here, but it's pretty damn easy to be honest.
All in all, between both properties and between the two of us, we'd be splitting around 20 to 30 hours a week of work right down the middle, and we'd be pulling in upwards of 6 grand a month with no living expenses at all, (utilities are paid as well), if she were to take this job, but our living space would be cut in half and we'd be losing our home gym that we absolutely adore and we'd back in apartments again. So my question to you Gaffers, if you survived this diatribe thus far, is simple. You're now my wife, (and you're looking goddamn good too by the way), and I wanna know what you'd do in this situation. Do you take the job for the extra money and accept the hit to life comforts? Or, alternatively, do you say fuck the money, I need to own and I need to be able to do what I want, when I want, as loud as I want, on my property? Just looking for view points here, thanks for your time Gaffers who now happen to be my wife and are about to get it later tonight when they put on that stringy thing I like.
EDIT: FUCK! Just noticed the stupid typo in the title that makes me sound like a caveman lol. Uh......it's early and I haven't had but one cup of coffee, no judgment allowed.
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