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Packing it all up again
Apr. 16th, 2022 06:33 pm So. It turns out I never unpacked my books. I last blogged in August (jeez, Mish.) and it was all about the final effort of dealing with my parents' stuff.
Well. Then a very close friend of mine died. And like an overachieving nutball, I offered to help out her family with some of her estate. I spent a good bit of August and September helping them clean up/out her condo, and took on some of her crafting stuff to sort and repurpose. Ran a few things to Goodwill, etc.
The saddest part was cleaning up her pantry. I threw away so much food - her appetite had been poor the last few years, and then the last year before she passed, she spent most of her time at her parents house helping her father after a major surgery. (Did I feel the parallel. YES, yes, I did.)
Anyhoo. I spent the winter pouring my creative energies into sewing. And the books just sort of sat there. I emerged from isolation visit Palm Springs for Thanksgiving, yay for family vacations, and thinking about when to make the next step, and sort of wondering as omicron came and went how much I'd be working from home in the future: I was definitely feeling the pinch.
Last straw happened right in early March at the annual condo meeting. In the dearth of willing candidates, I was nominated to join the board again, and I declined. I was going to sell! I went to Mexico in late March - again, another family vacation, and decided, when I came back, that's when I'd really start working on this. I could tell from my haunting of Redfin and realtor.com that the market was heating back up again.
So. Two weeks ago I talked to a realtor. Today I got all my docs in for a pre-approval for turning around after the sale and buying again. Dad's coming up from New Mexico to spend some time with his granddaughters this weekend, and me this coming week. We'll be doing all the minor fixes that need fixing, I've got another storage unit secured at the same place I've got some things stashed, and I'll be moving most of my stuff in there: a stager will be by in a couple of weeks, and I'll list in early May.
With luck, I will only need to show the place for a single weekend. I'm contemplating packing myself and the cats out into a hotel for that time.
Then I'll have to deal with actually packing and moving out, securing a new place to purchase, and possibly a transient place to stay in between. And in mid-May I also have to go out of town for a work conference, so that's going to be fun.
Well. Then a very close friend of mine died. And like an overachieving nutball, I offered to help out her family with some of her estate. I spent a good bit of August and September helping them clean up/out her condo, and took on some of her crafting stuff to sort and repurpose. Ran a few things to Goodwill, etc.
The saddest part was cleaning up her pantry. I threw away so much food - her appetite had been poor the last few years, and then the last year before she passed, she spent most of her time at her parents house helping her father after a major surgery. (Did I feel the parallel. YES, yes, I did.)
Anyhoo. I spent the winter pouring my creative energies into sewing. And the books just sort of sat there. I emerged from isolation visit Palm Springs for Thanksgiving, yay for family vacations, and thinking about when to make the next step, and sort of wondering as omicron came and went how much I'd be working from home in the future: I was definitely feeling the pinch.
Last straw happened right in early March at the annual condo meeting. In the dearth of willing candidates, I was nominated to join the board again, and I declined. I was going to sell! I went to Mexico in late March - again, another family vacation, and decided, when I came back, that's when I'd really start working on this. I could tell from my haunting of Redfin and realtor.com that the market was heating back up again.
So. Two weeks ago I talked to a realtor. Today I got all my docs in for a pre-approval for turning around after the sale and buying again. Dad's coming up from New Mexico to spend some time with his granddaughters this weekend, and me this coming week. We'll be doing all the minor fixes that need fixing, I've got another storage unit secured at the same place I've got some things stashed, and I'll be moving most of my stuff in there: a stager will be by in a couple of weeks, and I'll list in early May.
With luck, I will only need to show the place for a single weekend. I'm contemplating packing myself and the cats out into a hotel for that time.
Then I'll have to deal with actually packing and moving out, securing a new place to purchase, and possibly a transient place to stay in between. And in mid-May I also have to go out of town for a work conference, so that's going to be fun.
