Show me the money !!!
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 @ 12:55 PM
We have been renting the apartment out ever since we took ownership of the keys back in February 2007. When you are buying your property the agent or developer will tell you that you can rent it out for over 40 weeks a year and the income from that will easily cover any size mortgage you may want to take out. We took all that with a pinch of salt and a good job as well. The costs of renting are very high (more on that later) and it takes a lot of organising but it is well worth it. Personally, I like the idea that other people are sharing your own experiences and the apartment is not sitting there dark and locked up.
The second, or maybe third, most surprising thing that has happened to us was when Katie and I were in the kitchen washing up after breakfast. We put away the cutlery in the draw and Katie noticed a bit of paper sticking out from underneath the cutlery tray. What with Katie and her OCD tendencies and everything she just had to tidy it away, lifted up the tray and there it was about 160 Euros in crisp new notes. I don’t think she believed me for a while that I hadn’t put it there myself, nice and safe and out of the way. Being the honest types we are we emailed everyone who had ever stayed in the apartment and asked if they had left “anything of value” in a kitchen draw? Everyone came back and said no, so “finder’s keepers” in this case and with a clear conscience as well. In this case we are 160 Euros in credit but it hardly ever works out that way.
I’m sure I didn’t put it there myself, or did I?