Wow! It’s been a heckuvah week! I’m glad it’s Friday, not that I “work” or anything - but my hubby does and he needs a break from it. I’ve been having some issues this week also - for one, my cell phone disappeared for a few days, during that time the battery died, so I couldn’t even do my old “call myself” trick to find it. Hubby had an epiphany last night and helped me move the couch to find my phone underneath it! That’s what I get for having a tech-savvy 3 year old who loves cell phones I guess.

During the time of the missing phone I got a call from the bank asking me or hubby to call them back. Apparently, someone took our bank card number and spent over $600 at various gas stations in the Queens area of New York! In a few days the mortgage is due and that was 1/2 of it - so, unless the bank EXPEDITES returning my MONEY I’m taking out a cash advance. Blah. Can’t they wait until payday to steal money?

On the good side, I got paid for a few Pay Per Post blog entries in the past couple days and someone bought 2 text links off 2 blogs for $50 total (paid today!) so thankfully, the blogosphere is still good to me. There is someone offering to buy a few other text links in paragraph form on my military blog, but I don’t want to put them on it. I’d rather pimp out this blog or Starryskye

My Firefox just finished updating and I need to restart so I guess I am done for a little bit. Don’t mind me if I spam the blog with a couple more paid posts A girls gotta make a living ya know

I have my house listed with a certain real estate property manager (I won’t list the name at this point, I will wait until after I talk with them). When I signed my contract I saw nothing re. banned breeds of dogs. I allow renters with dogs and cats to rent this house. According to my prop. manager the pet deposit is $250 - according to the MLS listing that they’ve posted on my house the pet deposit is $300!

Back to the banned breeds though. On a list of houses for rent by this company, they say the following dog breeds are not allowed to be in the house, including: rottweilers, pit bulls, german shepards, and chows. I want to know how they off saying that these breeds cannot be in the house? The breeds are NOT banned in my county! In fact, I HAVE a Lab-Rott mix! I am a huge animal advocate, might seem silly but that’s where I stand. Needless to say, this doesn’t sit well with me.

They’ve pissed me off a few times now - the “banned breeds” and two different pet deposits are just two issues. More include their downright crappy listings (mine were way better - much more descriptive), my picture of the house is better (theirs is super grainy), and they never return calls (in fact, someone came to the house to view it telling me that the company never called them back. I didn’t let them in because I was home alone with the baby though.) They make me mad, but I’ve already paid them $250 to list my house. I can’t manage it myself since we won’t be living in Jacksonville.

Anyone have any good ideas for GOOD rental property managers?