It is time once again for your Christmas gifts. If you are named as a tenant on a current lease with me, you are entitled to one gift from the list below. It is one gift per tenant, not one gift per rental unit. I do not have these items on hand. Once you tell me what you want, I will order it for you. As you have probably heard in the news, because of the backup in West Coast ports, a lot of imported products are hard to get right now. If something you want is unavailable, you may have to wait for it to be back in stock or take something else. Here are your choices. Pick one and have a happy holiday season!
1. Segway Electric Scooter. Xioami (pronounced ‘shall-me’) is the largest manufacturer of electric scooters in China. Nearly all of the electric scooter rental companies in the U.S. get their scooters from Xioami, including Lyft, Lime, Bird, and Spin. The model that I plan to give away is Xioami’s Segway Ninebot ES1. This may be the most practical item on this list. Street parking in Berkeley has become far more difficult to find. Berkeley has eliminated hundreds of parking spaces in order to create bike lanes. Street parking is also expensive. A lot of parking meters are now $3.50 an hour.
2. Apple Watch SE. Take calls and reply to texts from your wrist. With GPS.
3. Cuisinart Digital AirFry Toaster Oven. Kitchen appliances take up a lot of space on the countertop, so I like appliances that do the jobs of multiple single-purpose appliances. This is a toaster, an oven, an air fryer, and a food dehydrator. It bakes, broils, proofs dough, and is big enough to roast a whole 4-pound chicken.
4. Cuisinart Elite 12-Cup Food Processor. This comes with slicing and shredding disks, a dough blade, and a 4-cup bowl for small jobs. A great time saver if you have to do a job like slicing a pound of mushrooms. Make pizza dough in 2 minutes.
5. Go Pro Camera Bundle. Waterproof. Bundle includes: 64GB SD card, floating hand grip, wi-fi and Bluetooth.
6. Roomba iRobot i4 Wi-Fi Vacuum Cleaner. I saw one of these in my cousin’s home in Montana. They had 3 big dogs in the house, including a St. Bernard that weighed more than me! This robotic vacuum cleaner worked very well sucking up dog fur, and there was a lot of dog fur in their house. The vacuum cleaner terrified the dogs. There is something about vacuum cleaners that frightens dogs. My stepmother had a dog that hid under her bed shivering in fear whenever the vacuum cleaner was turned on anywhere in the house. I sometimes crawled under the bed with the dog to calm her down until the vacuuming was done. Cats, on the other hand, don’t seem to be afraid of these things.
7. Bose Noise Canceling Bluetooth Wireless Headphones. With Alexa voice control.
8. Fitbit Sense Smart Watch with GPS. You probably know more about what a Fitbit watch does than I do.
9. iPad. 10.2 inch screen. Wi-Fi model. 32GB. The model number will depend on what’s available.
If there is nothing on this list that you want, I can make a donation to the Berkeley landlord association in your name instead. (No tenant of mine has ever picked this option.)