Addendum

I was writing up what we did to get the house ready for renters, and I think I left out half the stuff. Some of the stuff was maintenance that was due, some was things that had been on a ‘let’s fix this list’.

All in all, we: got the kitchen floor replaced, got the tile strip by the step in front replaced, got the house washed & back deck sealed & patio cleaned then we sealed the patio ourselves because the guy tore his Achilles tendon and had surgery after the patio got cleaned, repainted places where washing the house had pulled paint off, trimmed bushes, moved the small fountain off the patio & stored it under the house, painted the utility sink room in the basement, got the oil changed in my car, scraped & repainted the place in the studio room that had water damage, ran to Kelly Moore to buy paint to match the studio room and guess what, that color is 10 years old (thank goodness they keep a file of ‘retired’ color recipes), replaced lights in the garage, cleaned the light coverings in the bedroom over the sink area (8 of em!), oiled our wooden dragons, checked that the sprinklers were all working, ran the generator, cleared out both refrigerators, called to turn off the utilities, returned the cable boxes, gathered up all the old paint & pesticides and ran them to the hazardous waste collection place (for which you have to make an appointment), took the old computer and monitors to the computer recycling place, and I can't remember any more. We had a list, a very long list and didn't quite get to the end of it.