In the box with that cat...
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Recent Storm in the Hudson Valley, NY - Click for big
I haven't been posting all THAT much, but seem to be posting more NOW the past couple months.
I was hoping to have some more substantial news to toss up by now. But we seem to be in the warm/cold, lonely/crowded bright/dim messy/neat box with Shrodinger's Cat, if you follow, being in a bit of paperwork limbo at the moment. We negotiated some last quibbles with the contract on Monday, but as of end of biz Friday, the Real Estate Lawyer had not received the buyer's paperwork and deposit. So it's all kind of on hold, planning, packing, logistics, house shopping, till that moves along. Tho' did working on staging and packing some this weekend.
We had gotten the house inspectors list with the nine items to address, including the roof. I was leaning towards giving them all the other eight, including one or two somewhat involved upgrades, to not have to deal with replacing the roof and hold the sale price. However, the buyers asked for a 2K adjustment in lieu of repairs. I was like, "works for us!," as my back-of the-envelope calcs for the upgrades were in the realm of 5-10K and we DON'T have to have contractors crawling over the place while we're trying to pack and get organized? Done! Deal!
But now waiting, a little twitchingly. What the buyer's situation might be is none of my gorram business, but I do hope nothing is going south on their end, tho' we might have suffered some weather delays.
We were hoping to get down to Berkeley Springs, WV at least once before the holiday break to look at some properties, but we'll have to see how the timeline unfolds. At least we'll have Padawan Two about for the next month and a half to add hands till he has to get back to Buff State for Spring term around end of Jan. Also was glad to have him about this weekend for the dig-out from Storm Electra. 4-5 inches with a nice shiny crust of sleet and freezing rain. Good to have a pair of strapping lads about. The photo is from an earlier, more polite snowfall this week.
I do have prayers out for SMOOTH. But if it does go pffft, we'll go to plan B, pull the listing in January, re-do the kitchen and take another shot in the spring.... Not our "Plan A" by any means, but we do at least have a contingency plan.
If it pulls together, the buyers are now looking for a closing on or about Feb 1. We'll have another (!) Winter move and probably a Housing Gap, but we've some folk down in the target region who're willing to put us up, and put up with us, while we shuffle paper at THAT end. Should be, as the Chinese say, an interesting month, might even make it to ...exciting. [Sarcasm alert.]
In the meantime, trying to get a bit caught up/ahead on work and at least get going again on staging and packing... DID discover that I had PACKED some of my Clients' Archives from '09 - with original art and animation files for a live video project that now is being updated. OPPS. I did figure out a workaround, but still OPPS. Honestly, we didn't really expect to still be here, even some of our winter stiff is packed.
Here's hoping the new week moves things forward. Not that the snowy weather has been helping...
Banzai.
I'm also exploring a journal at Dreamwidth. http://samuraiartguy.dreamwidth.org
Recent Storm in the Hudson Valley, NY - Click for big
I haven't been posting all THAT much, but seem to be posting more NOW the past couple months.
I was hoping to have some more substantial news to toss up by now. But we seem to be in the warm/cold, lonely/crowded bright/dim messy/neat box with Shrodinger's Cat, if you follow, being in a bit of paperwork limbo at the moment. We negotiated some last quibbles with the contract on Monday, but as of end of biz Friday, the Real Estate Lawyer had not received the buyer's paperwork and deposit. So it's all kind of on hold, planning, packing, logistics, house shopping, till that moves along. Tho' did working on staging and packing some this weekend.
We had gotten the house inspectors list with the nine items to address, including the roof. I was leaning towards giving them all the other eight, including one or two somewhat involved upgrades, to not have to deal with replacing the roof and hold the sale price. However, the buyers asked for a 2K adjustment in lieu of repairs. I was like, "works for us!," as my back-of the-envelope calcs for the upgrades were in the realm of 5-10K and we DON'T have to have contractors crawling over the place while we're trying to pack and get organized? Done! Deal!
But now waiting, a little twitchingly. What the buyer's situation might be is none of my gorram business, but I do hope nothing is going south on their end, tho' we might have suffered some weather delays.
We were hoping to get down to Berkeley Springs, WV at least once before the holiday break to look at some properties, but we'll have to see how the timeline unfolds. At least we'll have Padawan Two about for the next month and a half to add hands till he has to get back to Buff State for Spring term around end of Jan. Also was glad to have him about this weekend for the dig-out from Storm Electra. 4-5 inches with a nice shiny crust of sleet and freezing rain. Good to have a pair of strapping lads about. The photo is from an earlier, more polite snowfall this week.
I do have prayers out for SMOOTH. But if it does go pffft, we'll go to plan B, pull the listing in January, re-do the kitchen and take another shot in the spring.... Not our "Plan A" by any means, but we do at least have a contingency plan.
If it pulls together, the buyers are now looking for a closing on or about Feb 1. We'll have another (!) Winter move and probably a Housing Gap, but we've some folk down in the target region who're willing to put us up, and put up with us, while we shuffle paper at THAT end. Should be, as the Chinese say, an interesting month, might even make it to ...exciting. [Sarcasm alert.]
In the meantime, trying to get a bit caught up/ahead on work and at least get going again on staging and packing... DID discover that I had PACKED some of my Clients' Archives from '09 - with original art and animation files for a live video project that now is being updated. OPPS. I did figure out a workaround, but still OPPS. Honestly, we didn't really expect to still be here, even some of our winter stiff is packed.
Here's hoping the new week moves things forward. Not that the snowy weather has been helping...
Banzai.
I'm also exploring a journal at Dreamwidth. http://samuraiartguy.dreamwidth.org