{"id":739,"date":"2010-03-13T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=739"},"modified":"2010-03-13T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T09:00:00","slug":"the-lineup-for-the-rental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=739","title":{"rendered":"The Lineup for the Rental"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">The house I bought in January and <a href=\"http:\/\/bootedharleydude.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/renovating-house-remotely.html\">had renovated<\/a> was completed and ready for rental last week.  As I  have done with other properties I have renovated for rental, I posted a message in a few strategic places, and within a few days, I received a number of interesting prospects from community heroes &#8212; cops, firefighters, and teachers.<\/p>\n<p>I selected several of them to interview, and conducted interviews this week.  One applicant didn&#8217;t show up for the interview, didn&#8217;t call me to explain what happened, and did not return messages.  That was strange.  Another person had a really difficult, hard-luck story and I felt sorry for his situation.  However, his background check indicated that he lied on his application, and wasn&#8217;t employed where he said he was.  I turned him down.  I wanted to help, but if he lied on his rental ap, then his prospect as a good tenant was soured.<\/p>\n<p>I selected a firefighter who is starting out in life with a wife and a three-month-old child.  Nice guy, nice family.  It&#8217;s good when things work out.  He and his family will move in at the end of the month.  I hope to be up and walking again when he moves, so I can go over and help him move in and feel welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  support your community heroes!<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The house I bought in January and had renovated was completed and ready for rental last week. As I have done with other properties I have renovated for rental, I posted a message in a few strategic places, and within &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=739\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}