There's No Place Like...Home?
My new employer, in all of their outstanding benevolence, gave us both Thursday and Friday off last week, so I was able to drive 100 miles north and…Go Home!
I can’t tell you how nice it was to sleep in my own bed again, after living in my Value Place “box” for the last two weeks. Even if it was for just four nights, to be back in my familiar surroundings did me a world of good. Plus, I could swing my arms without hitting all four walls.
Of course, I’m now back in my “box” again, biding my time until we can buy a new house here in Omaha. But that time is coming up sooner than imagined – we sold our house yesterday.
Yes, the Gressels will soon be ex-Sioux Cityans. Our house was on the market for exactly one month, which really isn’t bad. We were first made an offer Saturday morning – an offer that stunk on ice, to be honest – but our agent worked her magic and called a couple of other people she knew may be interested. Next thing we knew, we had multiple offers. So by the end of the day Saturday the original crap offer had miraculously turned into a pretty decent offer. (That’s what a little bit of competition will do for you. Let’s hear it for capitalism!)
So yesterday AM The Lovely Mrs. G. and I accepted the offer. We had to throw in the washer and dryer to seal the deal, which is okay. Oh, and we also agreed to be out by…December 17.
Three weeks.
That time frame sounds a little crunched, I know. But it could be worse - they originally wanted to close on December 10. Well, there was NO WAY we could be out by then, so we negotiated another week out of the deal.
The biggest hitch is that we still have nowhere to go. I spoke to my Omaha Realtor yesterday, and we’re going to put in an offer for a new place this afternoon, but as of right now Casa De Gressel is sold, and we really don’t know where we’ll be living three weeks from now.
I guess we can always squeeze into my Value Place box. We’ll just have to see if they’ll let Mrs. G. and the two cats move in. If not, we’ll find something else temporarily until we can have a house to call our own. (Casa De Gressel, Part Dos.)
So it’ll be a hectic couple of weeks around here – Mrs. G. will pack and deal with the Sioux City end while I’ll work on finding us a home in Omaha.
It’s probably a good thing we haven’t put up a Christmas tree yet, isn’t it?
I can’t tell you how nice it was to sleep in my own bed again, after living in my Value Place “box” for the last two weeks. Even if it was for just four nights, to be back in my familiar surroundings did me a world of good. Plus, I could swing my arms without hitting all four walls.
Of course, I’m now back in my “box” again, biding my time until we can buy a new house here in Omaha. But that time is coming up sooner than imagined – we sold our house yesterday.
Yes, the Gressels will soon be ex-Sioux Cityans. Our house was on the market for exactly one month, which really isn’t bad. We were first made an offer Saturday morning – an offer that stunk on ice, to be honest – but our agent worked her magic and called a couple of other people she knew may be interested. Next thing we knew, we had multiple offers. So by the end of the day Saturday the original crap offer had miraculously turned into a pretty decent offer. (That’s what a little bit of competition will do for you. Let’s hear it for capitalism!)
So yesterday AM The Lovely Mrs. G. and I accepted the offer. We had to throw in the washer and dryer to seal the deal, which is okay. Oh, and we also agreed to be out by…December 17.
Three weeks.
That time frame sounds a little crunched, I know. But it could be worse - they originally wanted to close on December 10. Well, there was NO WAY we could be out by then, so we negotiated another week out of the deal.
The biggest hitch is that we still have nowhere to go. I spoke to my Omaha Realtor yesterday, and we’re going to put in an offer for a new place this afternoon, but as of right now Casa De Gressel is sold, and we really don’t know where we’ll be living three weeks from now.
I guess we can always squeeze into my Value Place box. We’ll just have to see if they’ll let Mrs. G. and the two cats move in. If not, we’ll find something else temporarily until we can have a house to call our own. (Casa De Gressel, Part Dos.)
So it’ll be a hectic couple of weeks around here – Mrs. G. will pack and deal with the Sioux City end while I’ll work on finding us a home in Omaha.
It’s probably a good thing we haven’t put up a Christmas tree yet, isn’t it?
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