20 October 2007
Office, VoIP, Malaysia, AD:TECH
Well, we closed on that office on 10/1 like we were supposed to but there was kind of a big problem. The seller told us the tenant that was in there would be out and the place was “move-in ready” — yet when we closed on the place and went there he was still there and we went to kick him out and got a cease & desist from his lawyer because he had a 6 month lease that the seller didn’t tell us about. Long story short we kept him in there as a tenant and are buying 2 more units (one has a tenant, one my we will occupy) and hopefully close on Monday.
Should be a neat office, it’s about 1200 sq ft (upstairs + bsmt), 4 offices, 1 bathroom. It doesn’t have a kitchenette or 2nd bath like the original unit did, but the offices themselves are much bigger and the looks nicer.
I got my trixbox setup at home and have a Polycom IP301 on my desk. Right now it’s just running on my home dsl. Quality is great as long as I don’t have bittorrent using half my upstream. I have yet to mess around with the QoS stuff, hopefully that helps.
I had a bid on a local site that I thought was a total lock…. but I ended up losing it to a firm in Malaysia. Didn’t see that coming. The manager guy that I dealt with on the bidding process really wanted me to get the gig but the biz owner is doing a ton of biz in Asia so I guess he thinks it will jive better. It’s a really neat business and they’re like 5 mins away so I was really hoping to get the account. I’m sure I’ll end up with it eventually though because I’m the meanest/baddest/etc.
Also I think I’m going to AD:TECH NYC in November with some new friends of mine. Drop a comment if you’re going to be out that way.
gratz on the nerd life success