Sigh...

Well, I see that Andrew has gone off on vacation without my permission. He can be sure that I'll dock his pay nonetheless. Either that, or I may double it. Either way, his bank account won't know the difference.

His only way out of this impotent punishment will be to provide some interesting posts on his visit to Woods Hole.

It's particularly annoying because I'm too busy to post as well. I'm busy conjuring up affordable and sustainable architectures for exploring the solar system, made all the more difficult by innumerable (and probably incommensurable) political constraints. While I'm doing this more than full time, I'm also trying to get the California house ready to rent, and I'm going down to Florida in a couple days to help Patricia (who I haven't seen since the beginning of the month) continue to unpack there and get the house ready to live in.

I'll try to get up a post or two up in the next couple days, nonetheless. In the meantime, go over to Hobbyspace and RLV News (which still needs a new name), where Clark Lindsey always seems to have enough time to check out what's going on.

Good luck on the landlord position. I'm probably slightly biased from watching to many episodes of Judge Judy screaming at landlords about the fact that renting out a house is more pain and trouble then its worth. In many ways though I have to agree with her, why would one open themselves up to having to deal with so much BS from other people?

Agreed. Rand, if you aren't going to be back to the house regularly, make sure you have someone you trust looking after it. We've had some bad experiences with long range rentals. And good luck.

You hear plenty of rants against the "nasty landlords." You hear very few about nasty tenants. Many are good, but it only takes one to ruin your day, and try as hard as you like, you will still have tenant problems. I can't imagine owning rental property in rent-controlled cities.