My trip out here is almost over. When renting a house there is a certain amount of work that needs to occur to keep the house up. If you don’t it could get ahead of you and then you have a bigger mess to clean up.
For this trip the focus was the yard. Specifically it was to reduce the watering costs and upkeep costs by starting to remove a lot of grass from the front yard. We put in a gravel path from the front to the back with a loop by the apple tree. Added some native plants and a drip irrigation section for them. We turned off 3 of the watering circuits so the front / side sections of grass will die. We also capped a couple of sprinkler heads where we want the grass to die, to be replaced with mulch.
But that’s not all we did, we also weeded, trimmed, mowed and re-mulched the yard to again reduce water usage. That is a lot of shoveling and wheelbarrowing stuff around.
The inside was better but did not survive unscathed. The tenants (somehow) broke a hinge on the garage door and tried to replace the hinge themselves but bought the wrong part. We found the correct one and replaced it. With the broken hinge the door would not close about 1/5th of the time. That is how we found it. The other suprise was a big wall patch in one of the downstairs bedroom. The patch was, hum, not that great so I had to redo it and repaint it to match the rest of the wall.
These are all things that come with renting a house. All in all, not too bad, but it takes a wee bit of time every year to keep on top of it. It should all be good till next year.
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