Productivity down

Why are my cats so drawn to the keyboard? I guess they want to be the center of attention but it makes it hard to get things done.

451 Bryant Ave Kitchen Remodel!

Sometimes you have a house for sale and there's one thing keeping it from selling. This happened on our listing on Bryant Street. Great location in Tipp Hill, where so many people are looking. House was fully remodeled, newly painted in decorator colors. Kitchen came with all appliances and had miles of counter space. But there was one problem. A chimney came through the middle of the kitchen. I would take people through the house and they would go "What is that????" Tour over, on to the next house.

I'm happy to report that the dreaded "thing" in the kitchen is gone, gone, gone.

Please give me a call if you'd like to come check out the property!  315-908-2287

Click the link below to get more info about the house.

451 Bryant Ave, Syracuse, NY 13204, USA - TIPP HILL

BEFORE "What is that??"

AFTER "Nice kitchen"

AFTER "Look at all the counter space!"

Fall Color from the Inner Harbor Area

 This is a few days ago - now we are having freezing rain!  I haven't had as much time for photography as I would like lately.  Happy to be busy in my business though.

North Syracuse Graveyard

This is the graveyard in North Syracuse.  It's right by my office.  I've been meaning to go out there and take some photos of it because the fall colors have been spectacular.  So yesterday I finally walked over there and realized that all I had was the camera on my phone!  I just took the one picture.  I think it turned out good for a camera phone.

I've started my property management company

I've called it Responsible Property Management, which was the fourth name change.  Now I have a DBA (doing business as) which lets me use that name on my bank account.  There's no going back!

I drew the logo for it myself.  It's the first artistic thing I have done in a long time, except for taking photos.  I've been neglecting other stuff too, like cleaning my house!

I'm doing a rehab of a 3 unit building on the northside.  It's had bad tenants and been really neglected.  It's nice to be able to be in charge of a project like this, where I can find someone dependable to do the work.  It will be done this weekend and I'm going to start marketing it and find some good tenants.

I've hired someone for a few hours a day to help me keep track of my schedule and all the things I have to do.  This is the busiest I have ever been and I am enjoying it.

Fall is here

I'm in  Lincoln Park.  I love this time of year when all of the sudden it really starts to look like fall.  Windy and rainy today.

A Busy Week

No, I wasn't driving when I took this!

This is supposedly the last warm weekend of the year.  It's great convertible weather.

I've been busy with real estate stuff.  First, we have a lot of sales.  I have also a lot of photos to take of new listings.  I have spent the last two weeks recovering from a sinus infection and cough.

The big news is we have a new property management company.  It's called Clyde, which is named after my grandfather who was a real estate agent.  I'm not sure if it will be Clyde Properties or Clyde Asset Management.  I like Clyde Properties better but there is one in Scotland already.  I want to have the name of the company as the web page.

It was hard to chose a name.  I liked the name Access Syracuse but wanted to choose a name where it was not limited to Syracuse.  I wanted to call it 315 Properties, as that is the area code in all the areas I would be able to consider managing from a distance perspective.  I figured as soon as I did that we would get a new area code around here!

We have clients already, we are managing 32 units!  One of the buildings we have almost no idea who lives there, what rent they pay or if they have paid any rent.  So it's my job to get all that straightened out.  The other buildings we know who is in them at least.