My son's anniversary is tomorrow. So grateful he brought his sweet, kind wife into our family.
I have made great inroads into getting this house cleared out. I still have to find a location for a few crafts and unfinished quilts, but I have lots of empty dresser drawers and closet shelves in the guest rooms. It has already lifted a burden I didn't realize I was carrying.
Our grandson was talking to an old friend that moved away. They still play internet games sometimes, and when they were playing the other night, he found that the guy will only be about 50 minutes away from where he moved to, so he said Forget getting movers, since he has brothers to help him load here. He said he would show up at their new house and help them unload. They don't have a lot of heavy stuff because appliances are furnished, and they are getting a new dining set and sofa delivered when they get there. I am grateful that they will have someone they know close enough to visit occasionally and that they have help that will save them almost $3000. Even though they make friends easily, I hated to see them so far away from anyone they knew.
We found a house that we both really like, so we are going to schedule to see it to see if it holds up. It has been so hard to find what we are looking for, where we want to live, in today's market. During COVID, housing was scarce in the local so people started doing a DIY update and throwing wild prices on them. Then a bidding war would start, and they might get $50,000 or more over asking. The prices are just crazy still, but I am noticing houses sitting there, so maybe they will come down to something realistic soon. There may be two identical houses side by side, and there may be $600,000 difference in price, and even the less expensive one might be above appraisal. I don't want to be upside down as soon as we buy. In the meantime we have found a starting place.
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