As you have probably noticed, my wife has started publishing her own blog. That way she can get 'the other side of the story' out in her own words. I think that is great. I know that I see things differently than she does. Now that she has caught up to where I left off, I will continue.
So we have been out for a week. We can do this. The boat will work out as long as we solve the problems on my list. We have already ordered and received the curriculum for the new schooling. What do we do next? Simplify, simplify, simplify.
Brenda and I started talking about what we needed to accomplish over the next eighteen months to be ready to go. We have been living in a full house with attic and garage for fourteen years. A lot of stuff has just built up around us. All of it has to be gone through and culled out as much as possible. At some point we need to be able to carry everything with us. Not stuff like kitchen pots and pans, but things like books, computers, clothing, etc. We started thinking and talking about how to get there. We also started looking at how to get out of home ownership.
We thought about renting our house out while we were gone. That way we would have a fallback if it turned out to be a fiasco. We decided not to do that because we really don't want to stay here even if we don't stay on a boat. If you don't want to live where you are, why keep the house and try to rent it so that you can come back. Anyway, we decided we would get rid of it.
When? At first we thought we would try to sell it in Summer or Fall of 2015, right before I retire. That way we could enjoy the space for a while longer, and we would have all that time to slowly go through all our stuff. Then we started thinking...What if the market is bad next year? What if there is a storm and we lose the roof? What if......
Brenda said, 'You know, the market is good right now.' Off we go. Turns out the market IS good right now. Frisco is a place people want to be. We decided to list the house for what we thought was a ridiculously high price. If it doesn't sell, we can pull it and relist next Spring. What could go wrong?
It sold in 7 hours for 5k more than we were asking.
No sh*t. Now what? We gotta pack. They want to close in three weeks. We don't even have any boxes. Brenda is recovering from a surgery and cannot lift more than five pounds. I don't have any time I can take off of work. This will be GREAT. No really.
All I can say it that we are not afraid of stress and deadlines. We did have to hire movers to do the actual heavy lifting, since Brenda could not help. Brenda and the kids did a great job of getting the house packed. We all went through things and got rid of a room full of stuff either to friends or donations. Really, an entire room piled floor to ceiling just left. We found a three bedroom apartment just around the corner that we could move in to. All the assorted lawn and patio stuff went to friends or my parents. Five weeks after thinking about selling, we were settling into apartment living.
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