We have a full-price offer on the rental house. We’ve signed the contract and now are waiting for all the inspections, title work, appraisals and so forth to come in. We are hoping for a quick, no-delay closing in mid-May. We’re excited and nervous to sell our first property ever! Still a little sad to see it go, but happy to see that someone really loves it as much as we do. But it means we will be one step closer to Puerto Rico.
Under Contract!!
Last night Britton and I were just perusing the Greeley Tribune online and checked out the upcoming events section. We saw something called Walk with a Doc scheduled for Saturday morning at 8am in Sandborn Park. We thought that might be fun to do.
So we woke up early this morning and headed over to Sandborn AkA Westlake. We often walk around this park before we get our groceries at King Soopers, so it was a familiar park to us.
Walking around Sandborn
We got there a little late, but managed to catch up with the walking group. There were about 6 or 7 doctors or medical students in the group of about 25 people total. You could walk alone or walk with one of the doctors in the group and ask them medical questions or just chit-chat. Today’s walk was the inaugural event in Northern Colorado!
Walking around Westlake in the morning
We were able to take a lap with Dr. Kurt Dallow a local physician who is very much about preventative health and exercise. He is very active and rides his bicycle everywhere even in the winter.
It was a fun time and we shared an apple from Sprouts at the end. Apparently an apple a day keeps your doctor walking around a lake! 🙂
Britton having an apple with the group
I am definitely going to bring this event up to my work (the Health Dept) to see if we can have more collaborations with this group in the future.
The next Greeley/ Northern Colorado Walk with a Doc will be on Saturday, May 19th at Sandborn Park at 8am. You can read more about them at Walk with a Doc.
Our rental business is going through a major transformation this year as we are moving all of our rentals over to a management company and we are trying to sell one of them. For one of our properties, it was left in fairly decent condition, but could stand to have a paint job. We talked to a couple of professional painters but the quotes were crazy high, so we decided, once again, to paint it ourselves.
With the money we saved from not hiring it out, we thought we would go pro in supplies. For example, we got real 3-M blue painter’s tape instead of masking tape that sticks like crazy to windows and instead of getting free paint at the Household Hazardous Waste center (where people can turn in their unused but still good paint and others can pick it up for free), we decided to go ahead and buy some new paint.
Bedroom Before
Because of that, we thought it would be fun to try out some color on the walls. Britton is a pretty standard “white wall” kind of guy, but I convinced him to try a tan color with white trim. The most time was spent on the prep: cleaning, removing vents and curtains, filling holes, sanding, taping, and the like. Then once we got down to actually painting it went pretty quick. The only bad thing was that because the trim was a different color than the walls, we had to go through and tape them the other way as well. But because we had the better tape, we were able to re-use most of it.
Bedroom After
So after about two days of work cleaning, prepping, painting and hanging a new screen door in the back, the house is pretty much ready to be rented again! We are definitely not professional painters, but I thought it turned out pretty good. The management company listed it just as we were finished painting and we had quite a few people driving by and asking to look at it. So, here’s to hoping it rents out quick.
This weekend we were busy paint-prepping and painting our rental so that we can list it for rent again. We enjoy hanging out together and getting stuff done, so it was actually kind of fun.
Britton paint-prepping
But we were able to take a little break and enjoy an Easter lunch with my mom, her boyfriend, my aunt, grandma, and Britton. We aren’t very religious, but I am always glad for a reason to get together and be thankful for our lives and our family. We hope you all had a beautiful Easter as well!
Easter with the fam