BRAD --68.50.xx.xxx

So thanks a lot, guess I'll go dig myself a grave. ;) --47.216.xx.xxx

I think more changes are coming with the latest iGen. There was a video online showing they don't even know how to turn on one of those old IBM computers. It's actually kind of interesting to see these changes happen. --68.61.xx.xxx

I think regardless of what method they prefer, 95% of that 74% are still deadbeats. --50.32.xxx.x

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Sometimes I will not answer my phone and then text the person, "What did you need?" I pretend I was in a meeting or something. --173.22.xx.xx

I do not sleep with my phone, but without a landline anymore, I do have it charging where it can be heard and will probably wake me up if there is a real emergency. --96.236.xx.xx

So if the person is 22 years old or younger, you likely are dealing with the generation after the millenials. --68.61.xx.xxx

I watched my girls texting this week regarding a birthday party this weekend. I'd have made the phone call and had the majority of my "to do" list finished before these two were done with their messages and misunderstandings. Sure hope my grandson has anyone show up at his party Saturday and they understand the "theme". Don't get me started on party invitations issued through some type facebook "event" app ... --72.95.xx.xxx

Dealing with ninja squirrels at one building this week. I can visualize what texting would be like. Voice message was "they're back". Well that doesn't help me one bit. It was like pulling teeth out of her in a conversation ... which porch - front or back, did you get rid of the bird food like I told you to, why didn't you allow the handyman in when he wanted to put the trap on the upper roof, etc. Texting would have taken forever to get the answers. Instead, in the phone conversation, I guided/coached/ bullied/cajoled/pried the answers out of her. --72.95.xx.xxx

Since I'm a hard of hearing Geezer....I prefer text messages. I hear them just fine! --68.12.xxx.xxx

Although I'm a Boomer too, during the last 6 months i have transitioned from phone call to text message as primary mode communication. It's way more efficient and provides a backup of communications. The best $2 i spend a month is for the voice mail translation to text! --73.236.xxx.xxx

Ask anyone from the iGen what the acronym BIOS means when speaking of information technology and you'll get a blank stare from 97% of them. Unless they work in IT, they won't have a clue about the joys of booting up a system. They want to touch the screen and it magically all works somehow-a-ma-jiggie. --173.19.xx.xxx

Most of my communication with tenants is via text. --131.151.xx.xx

Since I do all my texting from the comfort of my desktop/ keyboard, I love texting and that is how I do all my business. Do people still text from their phones? lol --74.104.xxx.xx

I love to text people. It gives me a record of what was said and then I can refer back when I have forgotten. --24.233.xxx.xx

I roll with texts everywhere I can for both my business and my rentals. It's quick and efficient. Time is not taken up with missed calls or finding someone. I prefer to text rather than talk. And it's to the point, where I prefer text even to e-mail. If I have to have a lengthy engaged conversation, I'll call but for routine day to day stuff, text is how I roll. I do prefer typing on google voice versus the phone though. I'm not heavy voice to text user. I've used it, but prefer to type. --64.121.xxx.xxx

BTW, I'm a 61 year old boomer. --64.121.xxx.xxx

Screen x3. (Effort) --71.13.xx.xxx

Half of the people I text regularly are over 50. --24.45.xxx.xx

But she and her sibling both have scolded me for sending them a text, email, or Facebook message before they get up for the day. Because they have their phones on at all times and use them as alarm clocks. Oy. --71.175.xxx.xxx

I hate texts. It takes a long time to key in the letters and if I have a question I can't get it answered in one contact. --73.33.xxx.xxx

A couple of my renters, that’s all they do is Text. Most of my friends, and my mom (who’s 60) we text. I call my mom one time a week, rest is all texting. I text her probably 10 x’s a day... I love to send the video’s of her grandchild eating and sitting up and stuff. Only person I call regularly is my husband. But we FaceTime most of the time (video chat) so he can see his kids everyday. I also like texting to have that record of everything said when it comes to the renters. --50.81.xxx.xxx

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One thing I don't do is use text for new applicant pre-screening. I insist on a call for that. That's the one instance where a call if more efficient for me. I intend to get rid of that at some point by having applications completed via a website where most of my pre-screening questions can be dealt with. But for now, a phone call is what I use for that. Otherwise, for routine stuff it's text. I don't want calls nor do I make them for routine stuff. --207.172.xx.xxx

I hate when people leave voicemail. Grrr then I have go dial in to listen to it, find their number to return the call...just text me already! --173.22.xx.xx

3358 minutes on the phone... --24.45.xxx.xx

BRAD --68.50.xx.xxx

The downside to text is you can't hear the kids screaming in the background or hear that the hopeful applicant is slurring stoned or drunk. There are advantages to screening by phone. --174.216.xx.xxx

Not for me. They launch into their stories and I don't have time for that. Just answer my pre-screening questions - if they have the income, the job, the stability, etc. I will meet them in person and THEN judge them. --173.22.xx.xx