Things are pretty much the same as it's been at work. We've been working everyday although yesterday and today we worked half days to try and keep our hours down. We got word of our next auction...Jan. 28 so just when things might slow down a little, they can't because we're in the next auction cycle. Linda got the certified letters out yesterday (after working on them Sunday)...next come the newspaper ads. By calling everyone on the lien list (45 of them, I believe)we got 4 of them to come in and pay before we needed to send them certified letters. That is a big help. I am really hoping we can be out of here before it's lock drilling time...UGH !!!
We're still trashing out units that didn't sell from the last two auctions. It never seems to stop but we've been making progress at it lately. I couldn't bring myself to throw the nicer items in the trash to fill up valuable landfill space so as I've pulled out big items I've been posting them on freecycle.org What a great resource this has been and Linda and I feel like Santa Claus doing it. People we've given items to have been so grateful and the items have been helping good people get items they need. But more than anything they aren't going to the landfill. I still have a couple of units to trash out;then once they're empty I can have the dumpster people bring a big roll off to take away the rest. It would be alot easier to deal with if there was a thrift shop or an agency in this area that would take items such as this but there isn't. We called a ton of places and no one takes items like this. Too bad cause we've given away entertainment centers, a leather sectional, a beautiful glass topped table and many other items that have found good homes in the area. I even found someone to take some salvage lumber that had been sitting in one of our units and would have taken up alot of space in a roll-off dumpster. Now it will become part of someone's home remodeling project. That makes sense for our environment and saves us money in landfill fees. We all win when we help each other.
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