Life With a Tenant Upstairs + Kitchen Renovation #474 Part 3
Docs Outside The Box
Dr. Nii Darko
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🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, we are back. We just got to finish talking about Wale's new album as well as why you need to put, or at least make sure you put in a contribution this last December because this is going to be the last time you can contribute. |
| 0:12.4 | Make sure you check out the last segment so we can talk about why that's really important to you. Right now, let's jump into our house that we live in right now. |
| 0:19.2 | Your contribution into a HSA. Oh, what I say, what I say? |
| 0:23.1 | You just said make a contribution. Make a contribution to your HSA class. Make a contribution to Docs Outside |
| 0:28.4 | the Box podcast. That would be nice. Alfred, put down our cash hat there. Bless my cash shop. |
| 0:35.8 | Mm-hmm. So we got a house. |
| 0:38.2 | In essence, it's a duplex. |
| 0:39.8 | It's a house, I don't know how many years ago, that this house is built in the 1920s. |
| 0:43.3 | But anyway, it's a, it's a house that sometime, I don't know, 20 years ago, 25 years ago, someone decided to, you know, cut it up and make it into a two family. |
| 0:53.4 | And so when we purchased it, we also inherited |
| 0:56.6 | a tenant, a great tenant. And we like it because, you know, they pay us rent. And we use that |
| 1:02.9 | rent to pay off a significant portion of the mortgage. But there are some expectations that come |
| 1:08.5 | along with it, right? We are landlords now. |
| 1:12.7 | There are things that we got to take care of. |
| 1:32.8 | If, you know, there's a leak, we got to take care of that. If the heat don't work, we got to take care of that. If the refrigerator don't work, we got to take care of that. And as a matter of fact, all those different things have happened in some form or fashion, right? So what we're doing right now is upstairs kitchen hasn't been updated. I don't think it's ever been updated. And the neighborhood that we live in is right along a train line. And as a result, |
| 1:40.8 | anybody who knows Jersey and neighborhoods that are along train lines, it's easy access to New York. |
| 1:45.7 | So there's a significant amount of new apartments that are growing in our neighborhood or in the periphery of our neighborhood. |
| 1:52.1 | And we are upgrading the kitchen just to make sure that we're kind of keeping up with what everybody else has or expects. |
| 1:58.3 | Just in case something were to happen and our tenant were to leave. |
| 2:01.2 | If we were to get a new tenant, you know, at least we don't have to worry about the kitchen, |
| 2:05.2 | so to speak. |
| 2:07.5 | So one of the things that we're doing is, you know, we're changing the floors, taking out |
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