Looking at Pam’s House

I spent some of the morning on the phone with Ross about the house I am thinking about buying. I have not seen Pam’s place, but I hear it is nice. I went to lunch with the guys from the office. When I got back I got ready to leave to get to Pullman. I was covering someone elses shift tonight.

While en route I spoke with Ross for about half an hour about buying a house and working to make myself richer. He talked about buying Pam’s and renting mine. Then a few months later rent out Pam’s and buy another house. Continue to do that for a while as I build up a number of rentals.

He said I could also afford a more expensive house. But the problem there would be once I get it, I would not very easily be able to save a lot of money, nor buy something else to build a small number of houses that I can rent and have someone help me earn some equity. But then there is the whole idea that I will have to pay to keep up the houses once people move out. It is a lot to think about.

I got to Pullman just in time for my duty shift. I went to the station and put my Crew Leader crests on my helmet replacing the old Engineer crests. I did rig checks with the other guys. We pulled both rigs out to wash them because they were a little on the dirty side.

When we were putting the Rescue back the emergency lights went on and we could not get them to turn off. I am not sure what the problem was, but we could not get them to stop. We tried a lot of things. So we ended up having Rescue out of service and had the engine as our primary response rig for the night.

As it turned out there was nothing to speak of, in fact we did not get to go on any calls last night.

When I looked at Pam’s place I realized mine is actually nicer than hers. My cabinets, the tile, and other things in the house made me feel like mine was nicer. But there was still a lot of stuff from the renters so it could have been some of that which was twisting my perception. If I do buy it I will have to move into it.

Then I would rent mine, and I could probably rent it near to what I am paying for it. So it would not be a big hit to my pocket book. Then I would be on my way to owning two places.

After checking out Pam’s place I thought mine was nicer over all. The cabinets that I have, the tile, and other features I like mine more. Including the fact I have shower doors and not curtains.

We went to my place and talked for a little bit when a call came out. It was a utility problem. I went to the station, but we did not go on the call. So I sent the other guys home. Over other parts of the evening we got some more calls, but none of them were for us.