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hey everybody powell over trophy point
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realtor group here
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uh i'm at one of my rental properties
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that i have and we
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are preparing to onboard a section eight
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uh tenant
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basically a housing choice voucher
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program tenant a lot of landlords really
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scared of section eight
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um i found people that love them or hate
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them the the one thing about it is is
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you want to get ahead of these
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inspections they'll do them before
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tenant move in and they'll do them once
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a year
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and when they come out to inspect if you
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don't do well they're never in a hurry
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to come out and reinspect so that's why
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i'm out here
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today's tuesday friday's the inspection
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and
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so i already went through and identified
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some things
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that i'm going to have my handyman come
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in and church up before the inspector
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comes on friday but this is something if
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you're getting into section 8
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you can get one of these from hud's
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website
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we can uh we'll throw this up on youtube
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so make sure to put a link
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to this in the comments but it's
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definitely good to get ahead of this
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stuff
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and as long as you do the maintenance
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that you're supposed to
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you know and any landlord any rental
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property should be doing maintenance you
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should be doing at least a yearly
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inspection you can if your tenants are
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sticking around so this stuff is not a
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big deal
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as long as you stay on top of it nothing
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in my opinion really to be scared of
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i have found in section 8 sometimes
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it's a pain to communicate
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with the velocil local housing office
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basically um so i haven't had too much
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issues but sometimes i have to double
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tap maybe go to somebody's boss or
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whatever
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um but this is just you know we're going
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line by line and it's really
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you know the place doesn't need to be
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perfect you know there's some a little
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bit of paint or whatever like they're
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not looking for that
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but they're looking for serviceability
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um so i've got my little outlet tester
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here
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so we are you know going through testing
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outlets
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um and then even on top of the checklist
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they even give you an explanation of
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what they're looking for
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so you know what are we looking for here
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electricity
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um you know we're looking for basically
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two
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two outlets right um
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both outlets must be working um we're
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also looking for light fixtures things
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like that
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so also the the bulbs um
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now it says right here be sure light
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fixture does not fail just because the
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bulb is burnt out just
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put new bulbs in it's just just make
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sure there's there's fresh falls
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um that's what we're basically looking
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for so it doesn't say anything here
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about the outlets you know being
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grounded right these outlets are
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actually
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knocked around it you can see um you
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know if you literally see that but they
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are actually not grounded
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that's not a big deal um a lot of people
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when they do
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you know they're buying a house
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especially if you're buying old houses
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you know around savannah or anywhere
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those old houses a lot of these athletes
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will not be grounded because that's not
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what they did
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and people see the report like oh my god
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they're not grounded in the world
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absolutely not look at your tv
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how many prongs it's probably two uh
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most of your appliances are probably two
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pound now and
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you can uh you know buy the code totally
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legal um totally legit
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just put everything on a gfi breaker if
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you don't have it grounded and it's
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it's fine so ask anytime inspector about
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that i'll tell you the same thing
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so yeah so we're checking out so i won't
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go through it but
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i've already checked all the outlets um
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all throughout the house
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we're looking for windows.lock so these
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windows here
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they have locks that's a security thing
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or making sure the windows are
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serviceable
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um this window here does not have a lock
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so i'm going to put my hand in them
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today
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put a lock on this guy there's a couple
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other windows that don't have them
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um we're also making sure that windows
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open uh especially in bedrooms
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it's like a fire thing right so you need
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to be able to get out
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um honest living room doesn't say
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anything about smoke detectors right it
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does on the bedrooms when we go over
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there um but yeah they're just
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they're just looking you know it's the
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floor sounding free from hazardous
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defects
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you know it's pretty sound to me pretty
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solid nothing has on
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um so we go over to the kitchen
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looking for a lot of the same stuff
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now the the electricity here
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this outlet does not need to be but this
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outlet should be a gfi
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outlet and probably this one as well and
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they're actually not so i tested them
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you know just put a little tester in
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click the button
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it should pop off it doesn't so that's a
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that's a super easy fix
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um cost me like 30 bucks to get gfi
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going on in there and that's something
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i'd want to do for any
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tenant just because it is a hazard um
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even if you don't care about your
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tenants at all you should care about
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your own liability
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at least so you should also probably
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care about your tax but
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um so yeah to say um so you know we're
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testing hot
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cold water you know boom all right we're
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good
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even though you don't need to have a
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sprayer but it's there so we want to
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make sure it works
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i'm looking for some leaks it looks good
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down here everything's dry
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um now my hot water is actually not
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not really rocking and rolling right now
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but i think it's because there was a
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breaker that was off so i'm gonna let
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that heat up for about a half an hour
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and check it again
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um we're checking the stoves right now i
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gotta work order on this stove should it
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get fixed tomorrow
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um you know in regards to the stove the
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top
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top burner is present working um
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you know if they're not there that's a
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fail
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um if the tenant is responsible for the
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appliances
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then obviously that's that's not on the
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owner right but typically
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um you know owners are responsible for
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that
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um they're gonna check whether it works
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um there's no micro there is a microwave
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so
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you know actually this wasn't even on
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the inspection so i think the microwave
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doesn't matter
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let's see nope no microwave on here
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so but it's here i want to make sure it
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works because you know my tenants lease
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this with the expectation of having a
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working microwave so
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you know what's up
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well the lights on there
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there we go all right we're good
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uh refrigerator right that's the
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requirement so we gotta make sure it's
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cold
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i'm not gonna put a thermometer in there
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but it feels totally adequate
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this is just basic stuff right nobody's
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gonna run a house
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um without a refrigerator unless that's
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espressly part of the leaks that they
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were to bring around
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um same thing as every other room we
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checked the ceiling uh walls
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you know we got uh just because there's
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this little patch job
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they didn't do a very good job i got el
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cheapo contractor on this but uh like
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that's
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that's not gonna fail your inspection
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right just because it doesn't look
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the most pretty that's you know not a
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big deal
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um so that's that as much of that in the
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kitchen
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um also we need space for storage
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preparation and serving the food i would
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say we have plenty of that
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looking around plenty of places to
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prepare food to serve it to store it
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no issues that i see
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so we're going to bathrooms i mean this
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is all like super simple stuff
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like
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you know in this bathroom we got
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you know this is the safeway this is the
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toilet work uh is there hot water
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does the bathtub work um you don't
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technically need a shower
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um tub or shower work inside board
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shower so either or
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you know just the back fan we got a
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light you gotta have a permanently
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attached light
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you don't need to have a vent fan but if
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there's no vent fan then there needs to
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be a window
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and by the way we're checking here's our
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lock right
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so everywhere where there's a window it
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needs to be able to lock
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and then this outlet up here i got my
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handyman coming out there should be an
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outlet cover on that that's a safety
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hazard and it's also not a gfi outlet
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so we're going to give them a fix both
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of those issues
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um and then while we're here you know
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leakage going on everything it looks
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pretty dry in there so
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you know too easy you know bedrooms
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we're looking for
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smoke detectors at least one battery
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operated or hardwired smoke detector so
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it doesn't need to be hardwired
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i don't have some detectors in here so
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that's one of the things that we're
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going to get in every bedroom
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and we'll put a smoke and carbon
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monoxide in the kitchen as well i don't
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think i remember seeing that on the
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kitchen checklist
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which uh a little surprise to me because
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i figured
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it would have to be on there but it's
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not on the checklist for the kitchen so
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i guess i tend to think
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um the
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so all these bedrooms are all the same
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pretty basic stuff um really not a big
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deal i've got on here i got a couple
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other window locks
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from the walkways before so
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yeah that's no big deal um
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other things we're looking for is um
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you know general electrical hazards so
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like if you don't have a cover
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on your panel that's an electrical
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hazard right so this one has a cover
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it's
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labeled this is perfectly fine um
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you know in here you know
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everything is is wired the way it should
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be there's no loose wiring hanging out
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i've got a i'll probably put a cover
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plate on that guy right there
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because that can be construed as an
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electrical hazard see that so i'll get
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that
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you know church stuff um you know
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there's no requirement for having a
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washer dryer in the unit this one does
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um so yeah i mean it's
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it's not too bad now going outside
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uh some things that we'll we'll look for
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is
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the
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so heating and plumbing um is another
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thing so
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um adequacy heating is our hvac is good
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so no worries there
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um water heater so we're looking at
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this thing here location presents hazard
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means that the gas or oil water heater
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is located in living areas or closets
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where safety hazards may exist so this
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is a
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basically a separate utility room if
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this was in somebody's bedroom you know
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that would be an issue
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um this is an electric so they don't
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have to worry about venting
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um and things like that
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um we have no leaks corrosions we got a
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sewer connection this isn't on a
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on a well i don't know much about wells
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so if you're dealing with the well
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you know there's perk tests and other i
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just i do savannah i don't do well so
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that's somebody who doesn't
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uh
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you know they're also looking for
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chipping paint especially an old house
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that relates to lead-based paint
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lead-based paint is really not a hazard
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unless it's chipping off
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i have no idea whether this house has
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lead-based paint or not it was built
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before 1978 so theoretically
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it may um but what you're going to look
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for is paint chipping off everything's
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been painted
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i'm not huge on the color this this
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color did not come out the way i
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envisioned
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but it is what it is i'm not going to
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put new paint on it now maybe in a
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couple of years
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um and so so yeah that's the
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you know that's the main main thing of
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it here so
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we're going to get all this stuff done
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come friday when they come to the
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inspection we should be
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100 good to go on this rental
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so this deal itself was a really good
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deal for us um
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you know we didn't always intend on this
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being a section eight we actually just
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we had a tenant from another place that
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was sold who we really liked we needed a
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place to stay
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uh we basically put a deal so you know
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pending all the approvals and stuff she
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should be moving in here
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which is great but we bought this uh
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well it's been too long outside about
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three months since we bought it um
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we put about ten twelve thousand dollars
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into it
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it was mostly done we basically framed
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this out this was an open space
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so we closed this to get a third bedroom
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um
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we did some lighting stuff like there
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used to be uh
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it was like a ceiling fan here and this
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this ceiling is low
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so we decided to do cam lights here
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we did countertop these cabinets were
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here this is not the style
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cabinet that i would choose but these
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are already here and they're actually
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really high quality cabinets
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they were improperly installed so we
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spent some money installing them a
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little better
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um countertops we
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were going to do granite i like granite
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or stone
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in a rental believe it or not just
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because of longevity
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you know it's more expensive but it
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lasts longer it really presents a much
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better product
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but my contractor really kind of screwed
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me my first one ended up firing them we
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never ordered it
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so we said screw it um laminate
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is what we want with it it's fine these
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appliances we scavenged from another
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project
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that i was working on for a client he
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didn't need them um
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and so we said hey how about we take
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them out for you so we got some free
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appliances we're gonna have to put a
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little bit of money in that is because
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it doesn't work but
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um but yeah we bought this thing for a
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hundred fifteen 000.
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um you know 10 you know might be as much
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as 15 by the time we're all done
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on the repairs that we did which weren't
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you know super major
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um so we're all in for 130.
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um we've got a loan we got a loan from a
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private individual
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who lent to us the entire purchase price
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115 000
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we covered closing costs which are like
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you know 2500
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um and our mortgage payment is
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with taxes and insurance is right about
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800 um
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and we're getting we should be getting
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1400 rent off of this
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so good little cash flow deal we don't
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have too much money tied up in it which
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is great
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um and this is a neighborhood like this
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particular block all around here there's
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like
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you know a couple um you know
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drug houses around yeah like they're
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actually just
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over there um and this is a weird part
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of savannah where like if you go just
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over there just a block
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um you know we've got another rental
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over there that's like
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you know about the same size as this and
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it's running from 1800
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now it's a lot it's a lot nicer but like
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it's just it's just right over there
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it's just so much nicer
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right over there um just two blocks over
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that way
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you know you're an east broad you're
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basically in starland this is just like
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a one
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little pocket and it's just a couple
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people like most of the neighbors are
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great
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you know talk to them whatever um it's
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just the impact that a couple houses can
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have on a neighborhood
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new you know those people are going to
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be there forever
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eventually somebody's going to buy that
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house from probably some slumber running
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it
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um not taking care of their investment
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you know not caring about the community
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so eventually that gets bought that gets
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fixed up and
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yeah this is a long haul kind of
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investment for us so
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we're pretty excited about this deal
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that we were able to strike
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