Beer for my horses.

The project I'm back on (Betty Road) is running into the same problem that Rancho did in the Spring; middle-itus.

It's when you're in the middle of a project and nothing you do seems to put you any closer to finishing. The place still looks a mess, there are still plenty of jobs, and the end still looks a long way away. Trouble is that you work slower, which really doesn't help.

Today's distraction was an emergency call from one of our realtors over a property that had been relisted rather unexpectedly. She had called this one in a couple of weeks ago, but with me travelling back to the US, parents flying in, getting started on Betty again, I could hardly say to my wife "shall we buy this property?". In fact, she already knew about it and had dismissed it because her husband was flying in after being away for 10 weeks, his parents were more or less right behind him, and we had houses to finish...

But someone dropped the ball on a sweet deal so it became available again. With all the players at the house at the moment (the wife and my parents) this would be easy.

So after a lot of running around, we had an offer on the table less than an hour later. And it got rejected. For whatever reason the listing agent preferred another offer (of less money we believe). BASTARDS. Our realtor is a little cheesed off - why bother making people run around if you weren't going to entertain the offer anyway?? Ah well, a lot of wasted time but good to see one of our realtors again.

It does mean that we are back in the game again though, which is nice. Plus 2 investors behind us made their intentions clear that they are back in the game again today as well. Which is nice. Nothing better than poking around these houses. And frankly, when 3 bedroom houses come on the market for $25-30k, what's not to like.

Back to Betty though, it feels like it's been going on for months, which it has, but then...it hasn't. We got 3 weeks on the property back in May, had to stop during June/July/August, and got back on it at the start of last week. So 4 weeks, and probably 10 man weeks on it. It really hasn't dragged on, and if we hadn't had a summer recess, this project would be fast moving.

If we can get the bathroom done though in decent time, build could be done within 2 weeks, and finishing will take another week on top.

And then we have fast project to get on with - which I am REALLY looking forward to!