It seems like a month, but Charlie and I have spent the past week boxing up household items for storage until our Mesquite home is finished in the Fall.
Our garage is 2/3 full of stuff right now, ready for the three 5’x7’x8′ storage pods that will arrive today. My grandson Dakota and I will pack them.
Yesterday afternoon, Charlie and I sat in the living room, exhausted. Looking around the house, it was amazing…the placed looked virtually unchanged, despite practically filling the garage with our stuff. I guess that says something for the amount of storage that this 2,100′ condo contains.
Our plan is to ship all of these possessions off to storage now, then put the house up for sale in a month. When the home sells, we will return from our RV trip to orchestrate the packing and shipping (off to storage) of our furniture, art, and loose ends. We will have movers do the heavy lifting, of course.
Today is Monday, April 2nd. On Thursday, Charlie and I will head back to Las Vegas, where we have an appointment on Friday with the Pulte Design Center to pick out “finishes” for our home build. That would include flooring, cabinets, countertops, kitchen appliances, storage design, plumbing fixtures, hardware, and such. Charlie has a $50K budget on Friday.
Our son, Tim, who is a Realtor, will be selling our home here in Murrieta. I’ve taken a lot of photos of the house, and he will be putting them on-line at a Realtor.com site and also making brochures for our open houses, which will start in early May. He thinks we should find a buyer within a few weeks. We’ll ask $519,900, even though no home has sold in our cul-de-sac for over $480K. I hope he’s got it right.
I’m hoping that this will be our “feet first” house; i.e. the last one. Moving is hard work!