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It’s Time For A Vacation Or I’m Going Postal

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Almost end of the month and I am dying to the f*ck out Vancouver now. I need a damn break from the everyday grind. If you knew all the shit I do on a daily basis it might drive you nuts. I am well compensated for everything I do but sometimes the cash doesn’t matter, ok? I’m am not complaining but damn sakes. I feel like I’m running 100 miles per minute, and this blog is basically my punching bag! Maybe I am complaining?!

I post the ads on Craigslist to get renters, people call to view the condo , I show them the place and they are all “very interested”. Some of these idiots are so interested that even when you call them back they will never return your message. I mean come one at least call back and so I changed my mind, instead of leading me on like a naive girl on the first date, f*ck! I doin’t feel bad for charging high rents, with all the games people play I need to be compensated for my B.S.

Then you have my online marketing campaigns, that’s another ball of wax. Let’s just say a vaction is very much needed, before I indeed do go POSTAL. Luckily for me I reinvest all my profit into something STABLE like real estate. That might sound crazy to some of you, but trust me real estate is way more stable than an online income. Don’t even ask! That February 22nd vacation is coming up, and I am more than ready.

Take tonight for instance, I need to go out to the Port Coquitlam condo for the 3rd time this week to show it. I’m thinking that people will see how nice this place and drop the $1525 per month to rent, so I can crawl back in my little hole in East Van and look for the next condo to buy. Any takers?? Ok, it’s time to call tonight’s prospective renters just to make sure they are actually coming.  I have no clue how many people say they are coming but never show up, so I call to confirm first.

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fruit platter, for my movie snack

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Highway 1 underneath Hastings Street (can’t recall name of this tunnel)

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Why is there a lock on the toilet plumbing at Renfrew library?

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you know who…

Chestnuts & Eggs For Breakfast

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Hmm, I’m ready to go postal, lucky I don’t work in  a post office. Snowing again!?! Lucky it’s like 1/2 inch so driving in this white junk is easy. Actually I walk to “work”, which is the Renfrew public library. I basically just steal their heat and use the chair and desk to work at, who needs an office?

Anyways I snapped a few photos of today’s healthy breakfast which consists of roasted chestnuts and 2 boiled eggs with salt on them. I had like 4 chestnuts in the fridge and I had to get rid of them, so why not have them for breakfast right?

It’s funny how anything can be “art”, even 5 chestnuts and 2 cracked hard boiled eggs. I guess the macro setting on the Canon camera  has that “magic effect”. It can turn everyday objects into artistic expression. Wow, I almost believed that one myself…

Ok enough on this post, time to get my ass ready for “work”.

ciao,

C.V.

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From Robson To Granville & Back

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Today was probably the best day  for weather in Vancouver in the last 2 months, seriously.  It was a bit chilly outside but at least there was no fog, no snow on the roads and it was sunny. It was a great day to get out and wifey and I did just that, we drove downtown and walked Robson to Granville and back. First we stopped at Tim Horton’s to get  a hot beverage, as usual I grabbed a medium sized double double, yum yum. From there we walked to Robson Street where wifey stopped by Aritzia, and yes she bought some stuff. We then walked down to Granville Street, to the Puma shop and back to the truck.

My cell phone rings and it’s Rob, wanting to mee for a cafe. Twenty minutes later we are at  Calabria Bar on Commercial Drive, having a caffe mocha.  We chilled there for maybe an hour or so and then went to my mother in laws for the weekly Italian Sunday dinner. After that I played  landlord (Mr. Roper) interviewing possible tenants (possible deadbeats?) for my Poco condo.  I also stopped and checked out my Burnaby condo that I got possession of on Friday evening. Hopefully the Port Coquitlam condo loft will be rented by tomorrow evening (cross fingers), we will see. After that is set, then I should be able to layoff the landlord duties for a little bit. Until I buy the next one, lol.

And that folks was my Sunday, a little bit of this and a little bit of that…

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took a picture of a guy taking a picture

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Robson Street

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Aritzia Robson Street

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Robson Street – dude holdign his kid

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Grandma walking on Robson Street

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Driving  by GM Place on Dunsmuir Bridge downtown Vancouver

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Puma show at Puma store on Granville Street

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Puma store on Granville Street

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View from my bedroom at night

Espresso Coffee, Condo Keys & Divorces

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I snapped a few shots this morning. I got up way too early this morning at 4:59 am, and I couldn’t sleep anymore so I rolled downstairs to my computer dungeon. I did a bit of work on one of my websites, then snapped some pics of my morning espresso, yum, yum……

Sometimes I get up really early but it doesn’t seem to bother me too much. I’m wide awake and don’t feel tired at all.  I try to work a bit, just so I feel like the whole getting up early thing isn’t a complete waste of time.

Anyways today I take possession of the Burnaby 2 bedroom condo I bought in November (tenants already in place)! My realtor drops of the keys at 9 am, I will drive down later to take a peek at the place.

Oh yeah the tenants from the condo in Port Coquitlam (bounced check) are  leaving, after less than 2 months! I guess that can happen if you cheat on your wife, then she finds out and wants a divorce! That sucks for me them big time, I feel bad for the wife. I already posted the ad on Craigslist for the last 3 days and will be having a showing today or tomorrow.  I also  raised the rent $25 to $1525, I may as well get more rent just for the headache of rerenting the loft after such a short period of time. Once a tenant leaves I always raise the rent even $10 (usually $50 to $100 though), it’s another $120 in your pocket in 1 years time right? Hey every dollar counts and adds up.

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Freshly brewed espresso on my granite counter top

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6:30 am espresso – reflection in granite counter top

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6:30 am espresso – reflection in granite counter top

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walking towards Renfrew library on  East 22nd Avenue in Vancouver in the fog

The Tax Man Wants My Money, Umm No Way

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Today I’m stuck at home waiting for Leo, our accountant. The problem with making  money is you need to find ways to keep it for yourself, unless you like giving YOUR Money to the government. I am not a fan of RRSPs, and now I’m very sure I hate the whole idea of RSSP (think stock crash 3 months ago). Having my money locked into some B.S Ponzi scheme isn’t an investment, it’s a government endorsed legal scam. RRSPs are 100% crap pure and simple, don’t get me started.

Anyways, we need to find some ways to shelter our corporate income to keep it away from the Mafia ahem I mean the Canadian government.   Hopefully Leo has some creative ways to shelter our income, he better not mention RRSPs, our I ‘ll kick his ass. Seriously.

I love adding up the daily profit, it’s the expenses that suck. But then expenses are write offs so that’s a good thing, anything to keep the (Canadian Government ) Mafia off of my money. I write of all advertising, home office, Internet, gas, vehicle, entertainment, % of hydro, % of Terasen Gas, computer equipment, office equipment and the list goes on.  Oh and being incorporated helps a ton, cause I only get taxed at like 18%, then I add write offs on top of that.

Damn it’s hard to get thinking straight though,  with so many noises in the background. The baby screaming, Andrea Bocelli on the CD player and  Tree House on the TV. Yeah, I work from home, can’t you tell yet???

Ok, enough for now I need to print my income/expenses for the last 6 months,  as well as advertising expenses and so on, blah, blah, blah…

Ding, ding, ding (idea): Instead of printing this out, I will just give Leo the whole excel file and he can do whatever he wants with it.