This is just a quick update on what is happening.

On my rental that had the water leak, I had another issue.  A 30+ year old Russian olive tree couldn’t take the weight off a recent very wet snow storm.  The whole tree fell over.  It appeared to be rotted near the center of the trunk.  I have spent my evenings doing tree removal.  It has taken 3 trips so far and I have removed about 2/3 of the tree.  I went out and bought an electric chainsaw.  Don’t laugh, that little 3 Hp bugger has gone through a relatively hard tree with great ease.  I would have pictures, but when I borrowed the truck from my dad, like a dummy, I left my camera in my car.  Ah well.  I should have the tree out pretty soon.  We had another snowstorm last night and I couldn’t get any work done today.  I will try and get the rest done tomorrow before my mastermind meeting.

Speaking of mastermind meeting,  one idea the folks suggested was offer free firewood to anyone willing to remove the tree.  They mentioned that this has worked before on craigslist.  I think I will have to try that next time.   Tree removal is very time consuming.

Last nights storm also appeared to have snapped two branches on my lilac tree (bush) in the back yard.  I trimmed this tree significantly last fall.  I hope it survives with the loss of these branches as well.  Either way, now it looks very spindly.

Still no word from my mortgage broker.  He keeps asking for information, but is apparently unable to pick up a phone and call the right people to get said info.  I will likely not use him again if I have a choice.

My 2/1 rental is still vacant even though there were supposedly 3 different folks lined up.  I will be calling again tomorrow to find out what the hold up is.

Tonight I am working on property management for that rental.  I have built a list of 36 different property management firms in the Denver area.  That is just the web based ones.  I used a few different places to get the list.  Biggerpockets.com, craigslist, and google.  If I didn’t find them based on those three, they need to work on their seo, because I spent several hours building the list and searching the web.

That’s all for now.