BrightSide and I have handled our fair share of moves. The one out to St. Louis, then the one into our first house. The one back to North Carolina followed by the one into another first house. The one across town followed by the one to our place closer to cows, and now we’re looking at one more. So it’s not like this is our first rodeo.
But what I just now realized is that this is our first move with 3,000 puzzle pieces.
We’re buying a house from people who are still living in the house so they have to get out before we can get in.
We’re selling a house while still living under its roof so we have to get out before the buyers can get in.
The buyers aren’t pushing us out but they’re ready to move in so we’re not pushing our sellers out but we’re ready to move in and it turns out they’re ready to move out so we’re ready to move in so our buyers are ready to move in, too. [And breathe…]
We have to get out before we can close on this house so we can turn over the keys.
But we can’t close on the house where we’re going until we close on the house that we’re selling because down payment and closing costs and other real estate finance mumbo jumbo.
So there’s selling and buying and packing and loading and unloading and cleaning and how for the love of all that’s holy do people sort this mess out??
It’s like a snake eating it’s tail. Where’s the beginning? Where’s the end? Where’s the rake to kill the thing?
Can I get an amen?
When you consider how hard moving is, it’s amazing people still do it!
My experience is that you either spend more money paying for where you were or in paying to stay elsewhere in limbo and limbo is such a nightmare with a family. I sure hope y’all get resolution soon! 🙂
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Thanks, Joey. I think we’ve got it sorted out. Fingers crossed!
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Amen. Thinking of you. It’s a nightmare. You feel homeless. How can buying a few bricks be this difficult. It feels like a game of who blinks first, where everyone is blinking like mad but the judge has clearly fallen asleep.
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And this is a perfect description of last week! 😆
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Amen. Simultaneous buy/sells are always difficult, but when there’s a whole chain of deals dependent on each other …. ! Just keep breathing, it will all work out eventually.
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True that. Our saving grace is that our buyer isn’t juggling a house sale of their own. 😉
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I was fortunate with my buy/sell. I managed to get early occupancy on the house I was buying because it was an estate and was empty, and then I arranged post-occupancy on the house I was selling because the buyer was living with his parents and didn’t need to get in any time soon. Thus, I had a whole month to get from one house to the other. I couldn’t have handled it any other way, we had way too much stuff to get rid of.
The amusing part is that the bank refused to let me buy the new house until I sold the old one because they didn’t think I could manage two houses at the same time. Ultimately, it worked out like that anyway. Silly bank.
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Amen and good luck.
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Thanks, Dan. I’ll take all the good luck I can get. 😉
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Amen!
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Hallelujah! 😂
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AMEN! Been there, done that, lived to tell. But oh the angst…
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I have a couple of mantras that are keeping me sane. One foot in front of the other. Just do the next thing. That which does not kill us… bwahahaha!!
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i do not like green eggs and ham, i do not like this moving in a jam….
i will be going through the same scenario in a few months time…
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A perfect moving rhyme! Here’s hoping your puzzle pieces fall into place.
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A tricky situation. Go to a b&b or motel for a few weeks, if that works.
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I think we’ve sorted it out but MAN, it jumbled me up for a couple of days there! 😆
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I can imagine. The egg and chicken situation.
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Chicken and the egg sums it up perfectly!!
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Yeah! I have been in this situation too.
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