Sunday, April 6, 2008

Phase one

By Gary: Today marked the first real efforts to start pulling the plug on over 25 years of living in the same place. I called a realtor recommended by my favorite loan officer at St. Vrain Valley Credit Union here in Longmont and we'll meet tomorrow in order to do an initial assessment of the chances of a quick and successful sale of the house.

We had lunch today with the extremely nice couple that has been renting my old house on the other side of town, and it looks like, although they are not in a position to buy the place right now, things might work out for the better with some friends of theirs that've actually been asking about purchasing the house. We'll know more in the next couple of days, but it could be a cool thing for us, them, their friends, and the realtor if this all fits together.

I spent most of the day rummaging through old papers and scanning negatives into the computer. We're not going have much floor space if this plays out like we hope, so photo albums are going to have to reside on a DVD or hard drive. Robin has been amazing today, clearing out cabinets and drawers and deciding who might want what, and what might go where, and what goes into the donation boxes. What an incredible change of mindset to decide we're going to pare down to only the essentials for now. I have a feeling that Craig's List and eBay are going to become our good buddies here in the next few weeks.

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