Two a day

Yesterday was a hot, sweaty and eventually sandy day. I played pickleball over lunch. Even though right now we are able to play in the covered courts the amount of sweat produced by the heat and humidity is insane. I am absolutely drenched by the end of the hour. Last night I followed up with playing volleyball for the first time in a couple weeks. I played pretty well and the team I was on won the vast majority of our games. It felt good to get back out there.

I have been trying to get two home related tasks rolling. The first one is getting the company I contracted with to do the hurricane shutters moving. They are lagging behind what was already pretty slow timeline. Supposedly they measuring step is supposed to take place today but I am skeptical if that will get followed through on. I might need to rattle the chains with the nice old guy that was my sales rep to get things moving again.

The other thing I am trying to get moving is “recasting” my mortgage. Because of the sequence of events with me buying this house prior to my closing on the sale of my old house I have not been able to use my home equity from the sale in the mortgage yet. I had to roll with the existing, extremely expensive mortgage for the last 6 months, waiting to do this recasting which basically means you are allowed to knock down the principal and come out the other side with a significantly lower monthly payment, in my case I could wind up paying around 25% of what I have been which would be great.

My mortgage contact who was great, has now flipped to another company however she has been willing to try to walk me through the steps to get this done. Unfortunately it seems the resources she is relying on at her old lender are not being exactly efficient in providing the information that is needed. I really need to get this in the pipeline as the mortgage payment as is has been applying significant financial pressure when combined with the various home improvement projects I have been doing since moving in.

Yesterday I took my buddy Don to go pick up his new Tesla. His 2016 Jeep has had a ton of repairs lately. Originally he was not that interested in the Model Y but with the federal tax credit being reinstated and a spiff he got for taking an existing inventory car he got a sweet deal. Just like when I got my last Model Y, delivery was paperless and took no more than 10 minutes. I gave Don a few pointers before he drove away.

Tesla has reinstated the referral program so Don used my referral link to buy his car. By doing so he got another $500 off the price of the car and I earned 10,000 Tesla spiff points that can be used on a ton of different things which is cool. When I was doing a lot of Tesla videos I had a number of people using my referral code. I need to see if I can get the Tesla content flowing a bit more to capture some referrals.