Monthly Archives: June 2012

What We’re Working For (Puerto Rico)

All of this work we’ve been doing at our jobs and at our rentals we do 1) because we like to keep busy but also 2) because it is leading us to achieve our goal of living in Rincon. Knowing that we now nearly have enough money saved up and that all these rentals will be taken care of by a management company when we are gone has really made it hard to not want to just go now!


This is just waiting for us…

Britton told someone at his work that it’s like we were running a marathon and we crossed the finish line and just kept running. We have met our goal (we bought our place in Rincon), but for some reason we just keep working in Colorado. But overall, I think everything is coming together and the timing is working out perfectly. Just like everything in life, we keep refining and refining. But I think we are nearly ready to make the leap. We have a good savings, we have little to no debt, and we have income. We have each other and we know our skills and weaknesses.

So to keep up the motivation we’ve decided that each month that we are able to hold out, we should say what we are working for. The large goal of a property in Rincon, Puerto Rico has already been achieved, so now we just need to add just a few more things.

So for this month, the word of the month is TECHO. As in we need to put on a new roof on the wooden house in Rincon as well as seal the roof of the concrete cabana. That is what we are working for this June.


This month we are still in Colorado working to replace this roof!

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Busy Beginning to Summer

This past week has been super busy. The day after we closed on the sale of our rental, we had a little dinner party with a few friends at our house. It was fun seeing everyone and catching up. It was also another way to celebrate.


We showed off the garden and the chickens and had a nice Italian style dinner.


Our friend, Dean, with Henrietta in the backyard

Then this week in addition to our busy work schedules with inspections and grant writing for me and an on-call schedule for Britton, we also had another rental in Evans come due for the term of the lease. So we did the walk-through and considering they did 80% of their move-out in less than 2 days, it was surprisingly in great shape.


Outside of the house (we’ve been working to green up the yard)


Living room

But we did have a few repairs to make, so we spent most of yesterday evening and today going back and forth to Home Depot about three times, putting in burned out lightbulbs, painting wall patches, cleaning windows, putting on new trim and fixing a door that had apparently been punched. That took the most time as the replacement door didn’t quite fit and so we had to plane it down to size. It made a huge sawdust mess, all over Britton’s car. lol


Rincon or bust!

We enjoy our work on the rentals even though sometimes it can be aggravating and time-consuming when you don’t know what you’re doing. But we keep getting better and always have an eye on the prize at the end of the day. With these busy Colorado summer days, there’s always something going on.

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