That’s great! So what is the move-out, move-in, plan now?
Well- we are going away in another week- just for a week. Hopefully the CO's for our current house will be issued by the time we come back-or maybe even just before we leave.
When we get back from our trip, we will have 2 weeks until the 9/30 closing date on our current home unless something changes. We can finish packing up and then have to make a lot of phone calls to disconnect and reconnect services, mail forwarding and so forth.
We don't have concrete plans yet for moving out of this house and moving into the rental house in NY. It is going to be tricky. Maybe the buyers will move out of their house the morning before the closing and put their stuff in storage and stay with relatives as per their suggestion.
Then we would move into their house that afternoon (the moving company coming to our home that morning to load up the truck). I am having the moving company come back out to our house to do a re-estimate and discuss some things.
But we have some issues to deal with - like we have lots of boxes of liquids the movers will not take- like toiletries, cleaning stuff and groceries (like sauces and olive oil, etc,). Plus we want to keep our financial files and safe contents with us in our cars, plus my husband's hunting stuff, etc. Not enough room in our cars for it all. Not to mention the boxes are heavy.
It would be different if we had a few days to move- we could just drive back and forth over the course of the few days. But doing all this in one day with driving back and forth is too much for us. Plus then having the closing the very next day! We are not 30 years old!
We also tossed around the idea of getting a UHAUL van to take this stuff to the rental house. Maybe the movers would load it and unload it if my husband drives it.....Just some ideas.
As for the NH home- well- we don't know when it will be finished. Was supposed to be 11/1. I don't see that happening as it had a late start. Maybe at some point after the first of the year. My husband does not retire until the end of the year anyway. And our rental lease commitment will be for 8 months essentially once we move in. Though if our NH house is ready after the 1st of the year, once we close we will start to move up there. We will take a big hit on the rent unless the owners can get another tenant in there fast.