Because Two Flip Houses, a Business, and Apartment-Managing Can't Keep Hick Busy

Nothing is being done on the flip houses. Cheap House has no air conditioning, so Hick can't replace parts of the floor in 105-degree heat. Lap House has a new HVAC system. Hick SAYS he plans to start moving walls in it. But first, he HAD to get his office finished. His office at the senior apartments, where he's paid just over $300 a month.

Hick already has an office in the apartment building. But he divided a 14 x 30 storage room so he could have a 14 x 15 office. He built a wall. Put in a door. Painted. Decorated.

I'm confused. This does not look like the office of an apartment manager to me. Maybe somebody who works for the DMV. Or a big game hunter. Or the leader of a NASCAR pit crew. I asked Hick.

"DECORATING, Val! I had to decorate it. I don't want a plain office. So I brought some of my stuff from home."

"Do you have a desk?"

"YES! I have a desk. But I haven't moved it in from my old office. I moved the fan and the couch. I've been trying to get it ready before our board meeting in three weeks."

"Why do you have a board meeting in YOUR office?"

"Because it will be too hot in the hall, Val! My office is air conditioned!"

"Where did you get that?"

"It was in the storage room. My boss said I could go buy one, but I think this one will work. I haven't tried it yet."

So let's think about this. Hick can't work in a house that doesn't have AC. But he can build a wall and put in a door and paint and hang a fan and decorate an office without AC, on the third floor of a brick apartment building...

Don't get me wrong. I don't want Hick working in the heat. AT ALL. His logic isn't logic-ing with me. Anyhoo... Hick has a new office. Filled with his treasures. And he PLANS to start working in Lap House until the weather cools off to finish Cheap House.