Hi Mila! Nice to see you.  You might want to change your user name from your email addy or you may find you start getting tons of spam.

Thanks Sun, little hiccup, tub wasn't in.  It's on of those inserts with walls etc.  So it should be in today, my contractor is not a happy camper, they'll put it in and then do the tile. So it's obviously not going to be usable so off to my friend's for a shower again tonight.  And it is a great shower at his place, you could fit a dozen people in it, waterfall overhead, very nice.  I do love the colours and the tile.  It's odd, I am not a blue person, I don't think I've ever painted a room blue. I just thought hmm, having a soak in the tub it would be zen like.   I love colour though, only my entry way is neutral.  Rest of my house is yellow, red, purple!

I am currently looking into some reno programs in my area that they have for second unit dwellings for affordable housing.  that may help me finish off and get water to the other building as well as a kitchen and bathroom.  It is a forgivable loan so, I'll have to see how that works,  I beleive the idea is that if you don't sell the property and rent for the 15 years you don't have to repay whatever it was you were loaned up to $25K.  Anything is worth apply for imo.

I don't know if I would stay that long, at least 5. but if you still have money owing and you sell, you have to pay everything outstanding, which if I was selling I'd have the money and the value of the property will increase with a second registered dwelling.  No, not just minor, it has no water, no bathroom, no kitchen.  I'm going to do a plan with my contractor, price it up and see where it goes.  And yes lots of demand.  That's part of the reno program you need to keep the rates affordable.  What I could charge would pay my mortgage and taxes. it's all just speculation at this point.  Ah if only I had a money tree!  Being a landlord is fairly unappealing to me as well but needs must.

As for the bathroom, it looks doubtful.  I may have to put off picking up Milo until Monday or Tuesday.  I think it will just be too chaotic.

Tee, I just love that first picture, it makes me laugh every time I see it.  You should enter it in a contest, it's that good.  I wrote about your son, but then it got too 'oh poor me' by the end of it and I just deleted the whole post, but I have had him in my heart. 
Love the tile, Oscar, but the countertop doesn't seem to go with the black and white to me, can't wait to see what it looks like when it's done, it will probably look completely different than what I'm imagining.  Living in an RV my whole adult life, I have no experience with tile, counters, flooring, any of that stuff.
My oldest sister is in pretty bad shape, she had another heart attack, has cancer in her left breast, COPD, bladder problems, a benign tumor in her throat, and I don't know what else.  She just got released from the hospital recently from her heart attack, she's in a nursing home for a month while my niece tries to find her senior housing.  I asked why she didn't live with my niece she came up with all these reasons.  I just looked up housing there on Craigslist and it was really cheap so I'm starting to think about spending my winter there if she holds on long enough, I haven't been back home since 97 when my mom passed.

oscar -- When I asked if you could do minor repairs I was thinking more about what could go wrong in a rental unit.  If you hage to pay someone to unclog the toilet or replace a window it gets pretty expensive.  I'm sorry the bathroom is taking so long.  Hope you can use the shower tomorrow.  I guess Milo will be okay as long as he and Tank get along.  Does Tank tend to do the "big broither" thing or just ignore the pups?

wendy -- Sorry about your sister.  Hope you get to spend some time with her after your season is over.  How's the season going so far?  Is it too early to tell?

Sun they do stand out.  I walk Tank all over and have several routes I take.  When I walk him on the Main Street sidewalk, which I don't do a lot because I have to step off the sidewalk a lot.  He is very very friendly and looks at everyone as a friend but he leans on you and weighs 130 so he can knock you on your ass if you don't expect it. I've had several people ask me if he was Bubba.  Apparently there is a Bubba the Berner in town.

Milo is going over large with my neighbours who have 3 kids, 9,8 and 6.  The middle one, if I let her would carry him around all day.  Everyone wants a cuddle. I have babysitters lined up.  I actually am going to have a neighbour take him Monday 15 th in the evening hopefully as I have a class at 6 and its 3 hrs.  I've left him alone when I walk tank so that's 30-60 mins.  I do hear him crying when we leave but he's asleep when we get back.  Tonight he was crying when I lost him in his crate and left to go have a shower but he'd stopped by the time I'd got to the car perhaps because tank was with him.

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