What Happens When...

This is what happens when you don't pay for your storage unit.  We've had a great first, few months with the storage unit business.  However, the "Storage Wars" auction is just part of the business.  After many phone calls, letters, notices in the newspaper, etc we had to cut a tenant's personal lock off this past week.  Our lock is on the unit and the auction is scheduled. Never a dull moment.

Before/After

While our kitchen isn't 100% complete, it is very close.  Last night, I fixed dinner for the first time in this house (since I only know how to prepare 5 different meals, we should be on repeat very soon).  I'm definitely not a chef - so take this worth a grain of salt - but the kitchen is great!  It has tons of storage space, great prep area (if I were ever going to prep anything), and pretty appliances (that is how everyone shops for appliances....right?!).  The only thing left is new lighting.  What a difference 120 days makes.

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Big Purchase

Since owning the storage facility, we have had very few costs (huge relief!).  However, business ownership cost us a little this past week.  The storage facility was sold to us with a riding lawn mower....old, but working.  It didn't come as a large shock when it stopped working a couple of weeks back.  Trent checked on repairing it, but we ultimately decided to put it down.

In my mind, this was an easy choice.  We have a nice riding mower at our home (10 minutes from the storage facility) and we're at the end of September.  We should obviously take our mower back and forth for the 3-4 more times that the lawn needs to be mowed.  Clearly we should put off making a high dollar purchase until spring.  Trent didn't agree.  He felt that we should sell our nice riding John Deere to the storage facility and we should buy a new zero turn mower for our house now (since prices will be cheaper than in the spring).  Side note: since we bought this house in May, Trent has mentioned a zero turn mower EVERY SINGLE TIME he has mowed the lawn.  Apparently, when you have a large lawn these things move pretty fast.

Turns out he was right!  We got a steal!!!  Trent is thrilled since he was able to get his zero turn lawn mower and I'm thrilled because he's thrilled at how fast he now mows the lawn.