Craziness

Well the building that I Spoke about in my last past has a crazy developer. I had tried to reach him for a week but he would not answer his phone. Then on Wednesday I got a call from him. I am in Edmonton right now and am leaving to Los Vegas where I live later today so he has some documents that we will need to manage the building. That was all good until he told me that he could not meet me at my work but offered to meet us at the Sawmill Downtown. So when I told Nancy about this she decided it was best for Phil and I to go as we have no clue who this is and he sounded like creeper. So we went to the sawmill at noon waited 45 minutes for him to show and he no showed. After we went back to work he called me and asked where I was and I told him that he had to meet me at the office.

Around 3pm he finally showed up at the office and was acting very strange. The financial records that he gave us were a bunch of numbers on a scrap piece of paper and all he gave us were bills that had to be paid. He then said that he forgot something in his car and that it was a large item that he needed my help to get it out of the car. So I went to his car because it was in plain view from the office window and he proceeded to give me an envelope with cash in it. I refused to receive the money from him because you are never sure where the cash came from. He then got all annoyed that I refused his cash and said that when he was a poor Property Manager he would have never refused $500.00 cash when someone wanted to give it to him. I told him that I was not him and left the envelope on the back seat of his car and walked away.

The next day we got an invitation from him for our entire office to out for lunch on his tab at his restaurant downtown. He said that this was because I never accepted his gift. Right now we are all debating whether we will accept the invitation or not.

sometimes you wonder about developers

Lately the newest craze for condos in Edmonton are conversions. This month we have been have gained 17 properties and they are all converted appartments which is pretty sad because the rental rate in Edmonton is 0.2% and each conversion means that there are even fewer rental units in the area.

Today I gained a property and it is a weird one. The blueprints say that there are 19 units and but the developer says there is only 18 units. The weird thing is when you go into the the appartment there is 19 units but one is an illegal unit so no one is living there. I am not sure why its illegal but they said something about the number of units to lot sized it is illegal for a condo to be 19 units but it is alright if the property was a rental and then they would be allowed to have the extra unit. It makes no sense to me but oh well I just manage it.

I am wanting to change my blog template again but there are so many choices on blogskins that I cannot decide right now. I am waiting for a Board meeting to begin and so I am twiddling my thumbs waiting around the office because there is not enough time to go home.

The renovations from our flood are almost complete and as I promised Alison I will try and post pictures when it has been completed and we can find the attachment to load the pictures onto the computer. As it is it is very hard to find anything right now because all our belongings from our basement and main floor are in our back room of our basement. (Unless we absolutly needed it.) It has almost been 5 months since it happened so it will be exciting to finish.

Well thats all for now.

Amanda