This post doesn’t really have a point. I just need to vent a little.

The Real Estate Investment Gurus never seem to mention the property management side of landlording. They will extol the virtues of the Buy & Hold strategy, but they tend to gleam over the time you will spend mowing the lawn. Don’t get me wrong. I like mowing the lawn. I pay a service to weed eat around homes and I do the mowing sitting down. The problem with mowing is the repairs.

I spend almost as much time under the mower (or without a mower) as I do actually mowing. Or at least that is the way it seems. So far this year I have spent more than $1000 getting the mowers up and running and right now they are both out of commission. I can pay the weed eater guys to mow, but that’s an extra $150 each time they mow. I mow more often than I trim weeds.

The mower just broke and I am really not in the mood to repair it again. I know exactly what is wrong with it and how cumbersome the repair is, but I have like zero energy to do the repair. It’s $32 in parts and about 2 hours of my time in the hot sun. It’s a two person repair, so I’ll get to it in the morning.

Please share any unpleasant (or pleasant) memories of landlording you have in a reply.