The chaos continues as we enter the last three weeks before heading to Arizona. The process of selling the house continues even though we have a signed contract. Unfortunately, it is an offer contingent upon the buyer selling their current house. However, there is a date at which time they have agreed to remove the contingency even if their house has not yet sold. In the meantime, we continue to have showings of the house by appointment and others can still make an offer if they choose to. If that were to occur, we notify the current buyer, and they then have 72 hours to remove the contingency on the current contract and proceed with the sale or we are free to accept the new offer if we choose to. Needless to say, the real estate market these days is a little different from the buying frenzy that swept through Bozeman a couple of years ago. That said, the current buyers really want the house so I am hopeful it will all work out in the end. In the interim, we continue to get ready to vacate the house.
As I stated previously, trying to vacate a house AND sell almost everything in it is much more challenging than a straight move from one house too another. In the latter case, you just pack things up, schedule the moving trucks and poof! everything shows up at your new house! In this case, Barb already has a fully furnished house in Phoenix and in phase two of this little adventure, we won’t be shipping much to Portugal. Consequently, I am in the position of having get rid of, one way or another, almost everything in the house. My firearms and larger power tools have already found their way to the local pawn shops. I have found a buyer for most of the furniture but am still faced with disposing of things like a riding lawn mower (the current buyer already has one!), snow blower, washer/dryer, refrigerator, lots of small hand tools, etc. It is a bit more challenging than you might imagine!
In addition to trying to purge the house, I am trying to get all my medical appointments taken care of before I leave, train for and prepare for my bicycle ride in the San Juan Islands the first week of September, and find time to have a little fun before we leave Montana. We went to the Sweet Pea Festival on Saturday and Sunday and then we are heading for Glacier Park on Saturday to spend a couple of days. Barb is still working so she has her plate full as well. The sale of her firm is finalized on September 15th, so she is trying to wrap everything up before that date. Needless to say, it’s a little hectic around here!!
I’m sure it will all work out, but it is a bit challenging. I guess that’s why we view this as an ‘adventure.’!