This week (in the heat) we have been doing work on the apartment we bought as an investment last year that we now want to rent out. We emptied it out, tore down the stinky wallpaper, and are now painting it and getting it just so for some lucky renter.
We did all of this work in lightning speed compared to how long it has taken us to get the house we live in into decent shape.
Actually, to be fair, our apartment is fine, liveable, could use a fresh coat of paint, but it's cute anyway. That's not the problem. It's those little (and not so little) things that we have been talking about doing (or finishing) for years that sit there until we don't notice them anymore. Like the cupboard door in the kitchen that we got a replacement for (3 years ago? Has it been that long?)because the laminate started to peel off. Haven't installed that yet. The filter in the bathroom faucet that is down to a trickle (a 50 cent repair if you ask me), the bathroom we said we would remodel ten years ago, the shower curtain (we have a new one) with the broken loops that looks so dumpy.
I made a list of all of those things and am going to tackle them one by one. I hung it on the fridge, which means that husband sees it too. While we definitely aren't going to redo the bathroom anytime soon, at least we can think about changing the little things as they come up.
In fact, as soon as the other place is rented, I am going to pretend that we are renting our main apartment out too, just to see what it motivates me to do for us.
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