Karma

I feel like I need to do a voodoo seance or something, burn feathers maybe. We have some bad Karma going at the moment. Trevor has been looking for his cell phone. We had it last Friday in my car coming home from the farm. I think on New years eve or the next night someone tossed my car, burgaled us. While drive to the store on Tuesday I noticed my charger was gone from its plug in my car. I looked in the back seat and my big beautiful brown purse was missing along with a bucket I kept in the back seat for collecting things. My glove box was empty of the manuel and other odds and ends. Some one had taken these things and most of the weekend my car was parked right in my own driveway, of course unlocked.

The eviction went through and the sheriff kept everyone calm on Wednesday. The locks to the house were changed just to be safe. No one is scheduled to look at the house. I don't want it to sit for long. The other competition has come off the market so I imagine they got rented. Ours is the only one of its size listed in the area.

The tenant had not cleaned. She had vacuumed, but the kitchen needed a thorough wipe down. The stove, microwave, and refrigerator were dirty. The bathrooms had rings in the toilets and hadn't been scrubbed. We spent five ours cleaning on Thursday. I mowed the long grass in the lawn and found a sprinkler head broken and laying in the yard. I remembered the call when the tenant asked how to turn off the sprinklers. So much for winterizing, which is what she told me was the reason she wanted to know how to turn them off. You know, if she had told me there was a sprinkler broken rather than hide it, I would have had it fixed at the time. Now she has to pay for it out of her deductible as damage to the house.

I am playing ketch up with the utilities out of the deposit, the ones that are refusing service unless paid. Natural Gas and electric said they will go after the tenant. The others I am paying out of the deposit to get them started up again as they are liens against the house or refusing service.

I had to ask my neighbor in front, to move her RV again until we get a renter in. She had been parking it in the driveway again. I need the house to show well, and the driveway needs to be open and accessible.

We had one viewing earlier, but the couple didn't like the flag lot. My thought is they probably didn't like the RV blocking the driveway. Any way the less there is to find wrong with the house the better.

The other neighbor in front of us that had the foreclosure, their house now bank owned finally sold after two and a half years, $239,000 back in October. It sets the floor I feel for our house which is bigger but still in their back yard and not on the street. Houses are beginning to move. A friend in Bend said their rental they were living in is selling, and they have to move. Wish they wanted to come to our neighborhood.

Went to the bank today to get all our accounts closed and switched over to new accounts for safety. Just in case there was something important in the car. Still have a couple more accounts to close. I had my main billfold in the house, so they didn't get my license, and favorite credit cards. I am struggling to remember what was in my back up billfold and get it all canceled.


So the big white elephant is back. I hold my breath every day when I open my e-mail in hopes that someone will be inquiring after the house. Not a good way to march in the new year with a burglary and a vacant rental. I am hoping this is bottom and we go up from here. Pray, burn feathers, do a voodoo dance, do something to change our outlook to positive.