Sad days are coming....

Hey Gys!

I hope you are all doing well, as I am, kind of. You may have heard the rumors, and yes, they are mostly true. I am going to have to get a job. Soon. I am currently the brokest I have been in my life. When I returned from my trip I had $150 to my name. I spent way too much overseas. With winter coming I have to replace 2 furnaces, possibly a third, I need a new refrigerator in one property, I have to pay for code violations, I also forgot I have to pay for 2 inspections of properties, not to mention credit card debt and other random debts. I am in poor financial shape.

So my only legal option is to get a job. One that pays more than unemployment does. So I already have one lined up and I will probably start in mid-November. Perhaps I should throw a fund raising party and call it my "coming out of retirement party."

So I got back from my trip and realized I had to rent out the upper level of one of my duplexes. I had evicted the tenants at the end of August, so when I returned from Europe on the 19th of September I decided to go check out the place before I began showing it. I had a guy coming over to look at the place at 3, and it was 1:30 when I got there. Everything looked just dandy. There were a bunch of plants in the house, and a bed with some crap on it, but nothing major. So I walk to the kitchen, and here I see that both of the new appliances I purchased a year ago are still there, not even a magnet left on the fridge. I go to open the fridge to let some air in it, and to my surprise it wasn't empty.

Not only was it not empty, it was entirely full. You had your usual 12 bottles of condiments, jellies, syrup,etc. In addition, I found opened cans of half eaten soup, a few plates of leftovers with foil cover the plates and various other foods including garlic cloves. Oh yeah, and the entire fridge was absolutely covered--every square millimeter--with dead and undead crusted or wiggling white maggots --Literally everywhere. Also included in the fridge was an insanely rancid smell that nearly caused me to vomit, and seemingly thousands of flying insects that might have been fruit flies.

Then I opened the freezer above. I found out that my old evicted tenants must have been fishermen, because there were 2 bags of self-filleted fish rotting in there. This led to a blackish-brown ooze everywhere, along with the usual maggots and flies. They kindly left the ice trays in the freezer too. Only in this freezer, the trays were filled with maggots, not ice.

So I had an hour and a half to clean up this nasty shit before the potential tenant came. I started busting my ass using gallons of bleach, gloves and the sheets from the bed that the old tenants left. I had to call the guy and tell him to make it 3:30 because it took me over 2 hours to finish. I had to pull apart every part of the entire unit. Even inside the fan in the back of the freezer there were crusty maggots.By the time he showed up, it was all good.

Enjoy your lunch!
--Dave