Some completed projects at the casa

We are renting out the casa (the older park model next door to our RV lot) to tenants for 4 months this season, so we're getting it ready for the tenants who will be there December - March.

Carl had gotten a Nest thermostat from the electric company when they were running a special last season. We liked it because we could control the temperature from our phones without having to go over to the casa. But, when we had friends and family staying there, it did not seem to be intuitive for them to use to control the temperature themselves at the unit. We decided that we should put the old unit back into place...

... so Carl took the Nest thermostat down...

... and then replaced it with the old style thermostat.

We also had dealt with a screen door at the slider door that was not easy to use, and had a hole in the screen at the place where you would pull it to open or close. We had tried several things to try to make it slide more easily, but nothing seemed to work. We decided that, instead of trying to put new screening on the door, we would get a new screen door for the sliding door...

... we got one at Home Depot (it had English on the other side of the box)...

... the new screen door installed.

Honestly, we're a little disappointed; it does not slide much better than the old one. We've waxed the runners, but that doesn't seem to help. We decided to leave it slid open -- I think the number of times that the tenants will want to just have the screen closed is going to be low (most people use the air conditioning or heat much of the time here, not wanting fresh air), and it is there, albeit not real easy to use.

One of our neighbors gave as his opinion that we need to get something better than the lowest cost option to get a screen door that works well, but he agreed that they rarely use their screen. 

We're almost done with the projects to have the casa ready for renting.