Slope of Hope Blog Posts

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

Deadbeats

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This post isn’t going to get me any nominations for a humanitarian award, but here goes…………..

My family owns a number of rental properties in the San Francisco Bay Area. The apartments were acquired decades ago at cheap prices, and they have been good sources of monthly income. The tenants were reliable and paid on time. The “Past Due” column in the monthly report was always a row of 0.00s. Until recently.

I scrolled through the latest report, and I saw entries like this……….

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Puppers!!

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Slope is probably the most dog-crazed website around (which is no surprise, since I have three dogs myself), so I wanted to recommend a documentary I watched on Netflix last night: Pick of the Litter. I’m only glad that we didn’t film me watching it, since every twenty seconds featured me shrieking out “OH MAH GARD HE’S SO CUTE!!!!!!”. So if you’ve got Netflix, and you like dawgs, I recommend you watch it.