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Part Deuce
To catch anyone up from last time, here are the Cliffs notes
D
got a new Job
D’s
new job was a long way from the mound
We were planning to move anyway once M graduated.
We
bought a new house close to D’s job (Homestead)
M
and I were still living in the mound
We
sold the Hanger
Moved
everything from the hanger to the homestead.
Now as I left off the last one, you
would think we were good now. Hanger was empty and sold. D was glamping at the homestead. We can kick back and have some beers and be good!
Nope
Now we had to get our house ready
to sell, no time to rest.
First – de clutter. Did I mention I have a lot of crap?
you see, my beloved is an angel and minimalist, keeps
nothing that isnt needed, has a place for everything, etc.
me on the other hand……..I am a different story (I don’t
know why she puts up with me J )
Now we were moving stuff from the Mound to the Homestead. Because you know, loading up vehicles with
stuff and driving across the Metro area was something we hadn’t been doing a
lot of. (please read the last line with a sarcastic tone, because otherwise it makes no sense)
D was coming to the mound on the weekends to spend time with us little folk, and every time she headed back her truck was piled with stuff. We did many trips
on the weekends, I would do trips during
the week. Needless to say at this point
I could drive from one to the other with my eyes closed with no problem (and with the time some of those trips were
made, I am pretty sure my eyes were closed because that was the only sleep I
was getting)
The nice thing was we had time to move and didnt have to do it all at once
the bad thing was we had time to move and didnt have to do it all at once.
(see what I did there.....)
We also had a few things we had to
deal with on the house before we put it on the market.
Every day was either working on the
house, making arrangements to work on the house, or moving stuff to the
homestead. (and somewhere in there we
have jobs, which I travel a lot for mine, and M is a Senior in High School and
trying to decide on a college) To say we were busy, stressed, not getting any sleep, and always behind on something, well that would be very accurate....
We also had some things to deal
with at the Homestead. Everything from
being able to mow and take care of the property
(nice green zero turn mower joined the family) to getting the cats shifted over and setup
with their needs (cats are very needy, anyone want a cat? its a buy one get two free kind of thing from us.....) to the puppies. Yes,
the puppies. Did I mention we have 2
labs?
Both big dogs with lots of
energy. They were crate trained but with
people being gone more it was difficult for them to be locked up more
than they should be. They needed their
space at the homestead. One of the first projects we took on at the homestead was
to shift some fencing, add some fencing, and turn the single car garage into
the Puppy Zone. Now when we are not
there, they can be in the single car garage, they have food, water, shelter,
etc. They have a doggy door to go
outside and have a section of the yard they can run around in. We also have some kiddie pools outside under
a magnolia tree they can play in during the day since they cant get to the pond
when we arent there. (yes, we have a pond)
This was a huge deal
and made the puppies much happier. They
do love the homestead, the space to run around, The cows, the bunny rabbits, the birds, they are very happy. They love getting a ride in the
mule with mama to get the mail each day.
They also love their early morning walks with mama through the
countryside.
Along the way we arranged for a pool
company to start taking care of the pool every week in the mound (because we had no time)
and we arranged for a lawn company to do the lawn in the mound since we had no time. (because you know, we had the lawn at the
homestead to take care of)
Finally we had things ready at the
house to get it on the market and we list it.
This is one of those things where you realize how wrong you were. A – we thought the hanger would sit on the
market for months finding the right buyer and it sold so fast it spun my
head. B – we thought the house would
sell quickly………
In the beginning we had quite a few
people looking, no one would make an offer.
We heard some feedback but nothing we thought was serious. We of course talked about it daily. But us talking about it didn’t make someone want
to buy the house. Then we started
getting the comments from our realtors about things that we should change in
the house. Not faulting them, they were
doing their job, but we had already put a decent amount of money into the house
to get it ready to sell and we just weren’t comfortable putting more money into
it when there just wasn’t any interest.
So we waited. And we waited. M moved into his dorm room at college, so I
moved out of flo mo and down to the homestead.
Left the house to be shown at anytime without affecting anyone. After a period of time we dropped the price
to see if that would help. Still a lot
of showings, no real interest. And we
waited. Finally we were getting pretty
close to the end of summer, and with M playing college football and us wanting
to go to the games, we weren’t going to have a lot of time left to move, so we
finally picked a date and decided we would empty the house out no matter what.
We had continued to move stuff
every weekend basically, and then we scheduled movers to move the last of the
furniture we wanted.
Everything left we
would find a way to get rid of. (BTW, facebook marketplace was awesome at finding new homes for furniture we did not want)
At this
same time we had told our realtors to drop the price again, and they suggested
we offer the buyer help with closing costs, which we agreed to. Right as we were getting up to the move date,
we got an offer. We accepted, but still went ahead with the
move.
During the week we got the movers to show up and get it all done, and of
course while I was there dealing with that, I realized one of the HVAC units wasn’t
working. There go two more days of time
and a lot more money to replace the motor in the air handler for the downstairs
unit. We did manage to get the repair
completed before the inspection, we thought we were good.
The inspection found some of the usual
things, but also found things like “you need a new roof”
Needless to say that was a gut
punch that was confirmed by our insurance company. We now had a few small things to deal with
and had to arrange to have a roof to put on in a couple week time period.
Through a number of small miracles the LOML managed to make sure all of these things got taken care of, handed off all the paperwork and were
ready to go with time to spare before the closing date.
Since I travel for work I of course had a crazy schedule to work around,
including a 8 day trip out of the country.
We worked out that we would close the same day I came back into the
country because D was leaving town the next day for a work trip for her.
That day came and nope, we weren’t closing
that day, issues on the buyer end. It
was pushed to the end of the week.
We
got to that date, nope still issues on the buyer end, cant close that day.
To say that the LOML was livid would be an
understatement. Another week went by
before we finally closed, but yes, we finally did sell the flo mo house. To say we were relieved is a huge
understatement.
The great part is, we are now in
the homestead, we are both very happy, we have a lot of plans and dreams that we
can now get started on
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