danemayer
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In mid April while at the Oklahoma Chapter Rally, Ann and I decided to put our Austin home on the market. We consulted with a realtor on our return from the rally and were advised to do some upgrades and other changes. So we spent the next 3 1/2 weeks getting bids and having contractors doing all kinds of work to make the house as attractive as possible. In parallel we began selling, throwing away, and giving away 40 years of accumulated stuff.
We had already decided that eventually we'd want a place to live in northeast Texas, so we rented storage space in Tyler and took 2 U-Haul trailer loads of stuff to storage, filling a 10x10 unit. We left the RV at KE Bushman's Camp a few miles south of Tyler so we'd have a place to overnight on the storage trips.
The house went on the market May 16th (about 4 weeks after the rally). The market in our neighborhood is red hot at the moment, so we ended up with several offers over the next few days. We settled on one and have been working on the 1000 or so details of moving out. We had movers take a final load of stuff to storage 2 days ago, leaving the house empty and ready for the buyer's pre-closing walk-through. Everything we own is either in the RV or in a 10x20 storage unit.
Today we closed on the sale and are without a sticks and bricks home for the first time in our lives. We're expecting that we'll be full time for perhaps a year or so before we have a new home and go back to half-time in the RV. It's been a crazy busy 2 months. We haven't worked this hard for quite a few years.
And to add to the excitement of the day, this afternoon, only a few minutes after we had confirmed that the house had closed, our truck died in the middle of rush hour traffic. GM towed it to the local dealer and got us a rental car. We're chilling in the RV hoping it's something simple so we can get on our way to Colorado for the summer.
We had already decided that eventually we'd want a place to live in northeast Texas, so we rented storage space in Tyler and took 2 U-Haul trailer loads of stuff to storage, filling a 10x10 unit. We left the RV at KE Bushman's Camp a few miles south of Tyler so we'd have a place to overnight on the storage trips.
The house went on the market May 16th (about 4 weeks after the rally). The market in our neighborhood is red hot at the moment, so we ended up with several offers over the next few days. We settled on one and have been working on the 1000 or so details of moving out. We had movers take a final load of stuff to storage 2 days ago, leaving the house empty and ready for the buyer's pre-closing walk-through. Everything we own is either in the RV or in a 10x20 storage unit.
Today we closed on the sale and are without a sticks and bricks home for the first time in our lives. We're expecting that we'll be full time for perhaps a year or so before we have a new home and go back to half-time in the RV. It's been a crazy busy 2 months. We haven't worked this hard for quite a few years.
And to add to the excitement of the day, this afternoon, only a few minutes after we had confirmed that the house had closed, our truck died in the middle of rush hour traffic. GM towed it to the local dealer and got us a rental car. We're chilling in the RV hoping it's something simple so we can get on our way to Colorado for the summer.