6 December 2023

Talking with my wife last night we decided it would be best to speed up our moving process. We’ll begin looking at houses and getting the paperwork together immediately. The next couple months will be hectic and for as much as I’ve changed to get here, I’ve got more to change to make this a reality. Mostly cleaning up, but if I were to change nothing from this point then my house would still be in better condition than when I bought it. Presentation is everything though, a buyer is essentially making their decision based on a first impression. Running through my head constantly are the lists of things I will need to do. I don’t want to clog my writing with these thoughts, but it’s my writing and these thoughts are me. At least it’s Winter and I don’t have to be mowing the lawn on top of everything. Writing down lists is helpful to clear the head, whenever something is stressful and the mind is stuck in loops, write down as much as possible. The rest of December will be spent preparing paperwork, as early as January 2nd I could see us traveling to the new destination to look at houses. With us moving to a fairly secluded area and wanting a lot of land, that puts us into a niche market. There might be a couple houses coming on the market now, but most of what we’ll be looking at will have sat for awhile already. Bing bang boom to get us under contract for a new place and that’s when the clean up of our old place will have to heat up. I remember how frustrating it was waiting for the paperwork to close on my current house, but this time I’ll be too busy to worry about that.