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Carl Foxmarten ([personal profile] carlfoxmarten) wrote2015-04-12 02:02 am
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We have a place to move into!

After losing the lease on our house two and a half months ago, we've finally found another one to move into! Yay! =^.^=

Known features include:
  • A dead-end street, so no through-traffic.
  • Two floors, no attic rooms, so no more sloped ceilings for me! =^.^=
  • The street it's on is sloped a bit (or so I'm told, I haven't actually seen the place myself yet), so the backyard at least is terraced.
  • A wood fireplace on each floor, similar to what we have now.
  • A landlady who actually listens, which is a great advantage over our last landlady. (well, her husband technically)
Overall, it sounds like a lovely place to spend our next fifteen years.

We get the keys on Wednesday, the 15th, and the plan is to do a walk-through that day, planning where things will go, then move the majority of things in on the Saturday after, leaving me in the current place as an extra security measure.
Then, the Saturday after that, we move everything else over.

That should give us extra time to deal with putting things in place, acclimatizing pets to the new place, all that sort of stuff.

[identity profile] thefoxaroo.livejournal.com 2015-04-13 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
My mother has had a similar close call. After years of trying to sell her property with no offers she jumped at the first buyer. BUT she had just as much trouble finding a new home. Things were looking good with a property at Werris Creek and she even paid for a property assessment ($550) and then the swine who owned the place changed her mind abruptly and put it on the market as a rental property. She came close with another place but the asking price was just a teensy bit more than she could afford. She finally bought a place just in the nick of time, AND just before it was about to go to auction.