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No doubt the rest of your neighbourhood thanks you for your sacrificeI'm drenched. Now the rain deluge has changed to a drizzle.

No doubt the rest of your neighbourhood thanks you for your sacrificeI'm drenched. Now the rain deluge has changed to a drizzle.
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Thankfully I am at the top of the hill.No doubt the rest of your neighbourhood thanks you for your sacrifice![]()
It makes more work for them to keep track of payments. But I do the same to my body corporate to avoid bill shock. Works for me.I have been in real estate since 1989 and I have been renting here in Brisbane since 2008.
Today I got a call from new real estate agent. We moved in 2 days ago and my rent is $600/week. I have already paid $1200 in advance and as I got paid this fortnight I paid another $970.
Why did you make a part payment? It's not encouraged!
Why? I had extra money left over and decided to pay extra. I seriously do not see an issue.
Anyway she gave up. This is a silly request. Just receipt what I paid in the tenant Ledger and who cares whether I have part paid in advance or not. Now I need to make sure I only pay in $600 increments. I like to be 3 weeks in front and when I get paid I'm still 1 week in front so I do not fall behind.
I've not seen the software but surely they enter Customer Id, amount and it calculates paid to date + part payment then they send PDF receipt?It makes more work for them to keep track of payments. But I do the same to my body corporate to avoid bill shock. Works for me.
When my car was recalled, they replaced the faulty part with a similarly faulty part and it had to be recalled againSo, during the midst of Covid I got a message that my Skoda was subject to recall. I ignored it. Not like we could go anywhere and this was a long way to travel. I'd already had the airbags replaced by one ( Takata). This new one was for the transmission.
Since then I've had the car serviced locally but their last service was a shocker. This time I drove onto the city to a Skoda service centre and they of course picked up I hadn't had the recall completed. Because it's a big one they said they had to order the parts in and that would take 2 months. So September 1 it was. They organised a loan car. Which is the latest model of my car and only done 4000k ( mine is 10 years old) so having the new technology is interesting. Supposed to be done within the week.
Today I got the phone call. Oh yes. It's faulty. The repair needs to happen. Now we will order the parts in, that will take a week.. Told them if it wasn't done by next Thursday then they wouldn't be getting their car back for a while as we are going overseas. Oh.
What they heck was that two month wait all about?