一点感悟 ~ 止损也是进步

今天好像又完成了一件大事， 我们把位于HAMILTON的一处出租出手了。 

其实那个小房子方方正正的， 要格局有格局， 前厅后院， 我两当时入手也觉得可以试试。 其实开始也慢顺利， 三个小租客，虽然只是打工一族， 但是对住房要求不高， 也按时交房租。 我们也投了些资本， 帮他们更换了全新的窗口， 维修过冷气机之类的。 

直到大概快一年后， 其中的小年轻开始拖延房租， 到最后只好搬走， 剩下的最后一个男孩也撑不下去了， 也搬回了父母处。 

结果房子就这么放吉了快五个月。 

当然期间， 也有尝试再放出去市场看看来找的租客。 因为前面有过和不负责任的租客对博小额法庭的经历，对选择新租客格外小心翼翼， 兴许也是这样， 房子就这般吉着了。 

我们想着想着， 不如也放出去市场， 一来对新租客没信心， 二来房屋贷款要续了， 踌躇着放了算了。

四月初的时候， 这个买主出的价格我们觉得适宜， 便签了协议。 直到今天再律师楼签单， 还是有些小波折。因为房子太旧 （超过百年）， 当时的电线设置不符合现在的规定， 我们找了有经验的师傅， 花了些时间， 修理好了相关的设备。 

从这件事， 我们也学的宝贵的经验。 地理位置无论如何非常重要， 及时止损也是进步。

Work or life ~~ thanks for letting me know

Lady S and Smith were talking about our team today, I maybe missed most of the conversation already. I joined the talks when they mentioned that Sandy joined the interview with Ms. C at that time when they were hiring her. 

Lady S believed that Ms. C will not fit the team during the interview, it did end up like that, she left the team about 2 months ago. Smith said that it was very difficult to tell at the beginning since things will change and people will change. 

Suddenly, he said that did I know my situation when was at my interview. No, I would never know. He said I was a little nervous, the director finally told them that he would take the chance, the thing worked out well now. 

The small conversation made me a whole good day! Hopefully, it means I am "in the team now"!

Coffee and Team ~~ South African Violet and Spring

We fell in love with this simple flower. They have too many different shapes. We grow several types of indoor. He likes to groom them from cutting the leaf, watering carefully a very little weekly, watch them growing a tiny every day. 

If you ask me what make them so attractive. En, during the long boring white color winter, the little growing purple blooms always bring me joy. 

To enrich our collection, we went to see the Spring South African Violet show at the Prince Edward Garden, and purchase several more. As we wish, he already plant them well ~~

Black Coffee ~~ still in love with the metal watch

I have been searching for this type of product for or a long time. I was very happy when I saw this at a corner in the department store. It has the best colour combination, feels like a deep deep black ocean with sharp starts. the golden metal number looks like reminders ~ it's time to move on.

I don't know why I am still in love with actual watches. Everyone knows that nowadays, cell phones, fit bits or apple watches,  already taking place of the function of a watch. 

I disagree, I like to check a time via the non-electronic device. It just looks so elegant~~

TAXATION ~~ Think hard for better solutions ~~

Recently we helped our clients in dealing with filing tax returns for last year. Since I am not yet experienced as my partner, I usually transform what I have calculated in EXCEL into Taxation software directly. 

But my partner usually points out where the numbers could be transformed/translate into a different way, resulting in saving clients a little within CRA's criteria. Such as balance income between partner and couple, by the means of admin and management service fee. This is reasonable, for the case of our client, himself as a self-employed, spent a lot of time dealing with accepting orders and development. His wife then helped him a lot in scanning the payment and invoices. 

Glad that I had this chance to be trained. I hope in the future, I would able to build up more in-depth analysis, and help our clients for tax planning ahead.