Big News In Our Little World

In my previous post I explained how today would be decision day for Brad. Is he going to stay here where he currently works until it is officially and completely sold. Or would he rather jump over to the property he has been told for months now he will be transferred to, a property in the Benbrook area. So the decision is basically stay here longer or complete the transfer. Well not so fast!

Oddly, enough earlier this week Brad was invited to attend the monthly "property managers" luncheon on Friday(today). He thought it was a bit odd that he was invited but didn't waste too many brain cells on figuring it out especially since he's been handling double duty at this property. He's been doing his job as business manager of the property plus he's been the on-duty property manager since early December. Double workloads are never fun! Without thinking about things much further he of course went to the monthly property manager's luncheon and that's when low and behold a 3rd choice was added to the mix for him.

What is the 3rd choice? His own property to be the manager of.  Yes, indeed. His company is in the process of buying another property. They are scheduled to take ownership of the "newest" property in February, we believe mid-February.  It's smaller and newer than the complex Brad is currently at. Today at the luncheon he was told his name was the first name that came up when the company execs were discussing whom to promote to the "newest" property. Brad has of course accepted the offer to take on the "newest" property once his company takes ownership of it. Trading in his title of business manager for full property manager!!

Fingers-crossed everything goes thru as planned. In the meantime while Brad waits for the takeover of the "newest" property he will continue to work here. We will continue to live here too. As our timetable to move is a bit undetermined at this point, especially in light of this big news of the day. We have the street name that the "newest" property is on and we know it's in Fort Worth, otherwise it's a waiting game to find out the rest of the details. He says he got the impression from the company exec that spoke with him at the luncheon that the "newest" property is a rather nice one. Fingers-crossed on that part too.

After the luncheon he couldn't wait to share the news with yours truly over the phone. Then later he stopped by our home briefly to talk to me and he was beaming! I'm very happy for him. He has not been excited to be transferred to the Benbrook property and I've told him he needed to try to get out of going there. So this news is a very welcome surprise.

As for the other surprise of the day....wait for it....for covering both the property manager duties and the business manager duties, essentially wearing two hats around here for the last 6 weeks his company gave him quite a gift...........wait for it.........AN ALL EXPENSES PAID CRUISE! Can you believe it? We're going on a cruise! We have to make the reservations within 45 days and we have 3 locations to choose from. The reservations have to be made within 45 days but that doesn't mean we have to go right away. Not sure what month we'll aim for...I'd like to avoid the busy summer travel season though. I still can't believe his company is giving us a free cruise....CRAZY COOL!