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I’m really interested to see what this turns out to be. The back with the winged fleur de lis appears to refer to the Deputy Minister of Defense, but I can’t find any logos for him like this.
It looks very much like the art work at the flea markets in Papua New Guinea. It’s a tribal art, but I can’t figure which tribe it might belong to (there are over 635 tribes in PNG.) While I don’t have anything similar to this, because I don’t like abstract personally, here is a pic of some PNG art I have where you can see the similarity.
Rug hooking panels are made from both burlap and linen. So are tapestry panels. With the detail included in this picture, I’d go with tapestry panel. Especially as it included embroidery floss.
Insanity is live and well in Australia, omfug, it’s just packaged differently! 😉
When we were posted there, it was a bit of a crap shoot how long things took to arrive. Once I received a box ordered in November only the following February. Several times stuff arrived in less than ten days. Folks seemed to be quite unconcerned and generally had the mindset of “No worries, mate!” If you advise them ahead of time that they may be in for a wait, they were generally quite comfortable with doing so.
Fun group of folks, but definitely crazy! LOL
Each week, I get an email from my local Auction house. I signed up for the newsletter, although I’ve never actually attended an auction there. Each week they send an email with a couple photos of what’s on the auction block that week.
If you create a small email list and do something similar, could you trigger sales? If someone actually signs up for your email/newsletter, does that not imply they’d be interested in receiving something?
TBH, I’ve signed up for the newsletters/emails of the TRS so that I can see what they’re selling, but as I’ve not received even a single one, I guess that didn’t work! LOL
Perhaps I shall try this when I open my store, just to see if it works. Admittedly, extra work, but how much time would it take? An hour or two to put together my “interesting” sale items?
I’ve heard that the pink and teal ones go for really high prices.
Reference, for Jay 😉 Go to 1:52
This video shows you how to add a metatag to your listings in a bulk edit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7z0Qs1CNT0
Would this work for you to bulk edit your listings with this information?
Interesting article on the age of Monopoly board games
She does, but it’s not her only source of income. Also, she is hands on and does her own property management and controls her contractors. As we’re not local to our properties the contractors are assigned by the Property Manager, so the costs are higher. Now that my husband is home we will be doing our own make-readies between tenants. That will make a huge difference as the job will be done faster and cheaper. Faster is good, as the property will be ready for the next tenant much sooner. General day-to-day maintenance will still be done by contractors as it’s not worth our time to travel 9 hours round trip to fix, say, a leaking faucet.
LOL. If you want a really accurate idea of income from rental, you should follow Afford Anything. Paula posts her month-to-month income/expenses and it’s very interesting reading.
Our rentals are all based in another city, so we have a property manager. Our best year ever brought in $50,000 for the year, our worst ran at a huge loss of $80,000 due to major renovations required (the year we bought the 4plex.)
It changes depending on vacancies, maintenance, repairs, and capital expenditure. While the tenants pay their own utilities (except for the 4plex, where we pay it) we have to pay for all the large items such as central air, hot water heaters, appliances, roofs, fences, etc. Some years are seriously OUCH where we get hit with a lot of problems, some years are terrific. We also have to deal with insurance (and they’re on the coast, so we’re hit BAD with windstorm cover) and property taxes. These bite! So, until we’re up to dozens, or better yet hundreds, of units, it’s not a good idea to rely on the rentals for our personal income. At the moment, we finalize our figures at the end of each year and then use the profit towards paying off our debts. We’re down to only one loan and our mortgage on our homestead, so it’s working.
Once we’ve cleared the loan and about half the mortgage, we’ll start saving to buy another property. If eBay comes to play the way I’m hoping, that will be in about 18 months. Then we’ll focus fiercely on building up to those dozens and hundreds! 😉
