02-16-2008, 08:48 AM
Sharlee, love your thoughts on this!
When we were renting down by the shore, there was one house in the neighborhood, shoreline property, that was always immaculate. They had a garage sale & we asked them how much maintenance they did. They explained "not much". They had been renters, and they retired & bought their first house here. The builder had advised them that they should wash their outside windows, esp. the window wall toward the ocean, once a week & power wash the house once a month. That "was all" the maintenance they did....
We didn't have the heart to tell them how much over the normal routine maintenance that was...
It is all in your perspective.
Mother Nature just wants you to have something to do with your time....
When we were renting down by the shore, there was one house in the neighborhood, shoreline property, that was always immaculate. They had a garage sale & we asked them how much maintenance they did. They explained "not much". They had been renters, and they retired & bought their first house here. The builder had advised them that they should wash their outside windows, esp. the window wall toward the ocean, once a week & power wash the house once a month. That "was all" the maintenance they did....
We didn't have the heart to tell them how much over the normal routine maintenance that was...
It is all in your perspective.
Mother Nature just wants you to have something to do with your time....