Pottery Chatroom Board

IRENE What a nice family. You can be very proud. I'm happy to be living in the outskirts of a small town these days. Close enough to the services we need, market, doctors, dentist, etc, but away from the problems of a city. I don't think the "Occupy Poughkeepsie" people really did any harm, but at our age, they make us nervous.

NANCY My first husband's family had a contracting business here for many years, built houses during the warmer months and during the winter they would buy an older house and fix it up, then either re-sell or rent it. Nowadays what they call "flipping". As a result, they had several properties that they rented, but as time passed the laws here changed also, and the renter seemed to have the upper hand. When I took over the family business after my FIL and my husband died, I got rid of the last properties and was glad to see them go. If I had held on up to 2008, I probably could have got a lot more for them, but the aggravation wasn't worth it. I would never advise anyone to become a landlord unless they were good at fixing all sorts of things themselves, and had a lot of tolerance for midnight phone calls from tenants.