When you go on a mission as a youth, you say goodbye to your family and off you go. But as senior couples, it becomes more complicated. What do you do with your house? your furnishings? your cars? your pets? your bills?
We've decided to try and rent our house. Sounds easy? We tried to rent it furnished. No takers. We hired a property management firm. On the day she told us we would have to totally empty out the house and garage, I wanted to burst into tears. It seemed an insurmountable task. Now the house is all but empty. And still no renters. We are still hoping.
We have four cars. The restored Chevy is tucked safely away in a storage shed in wine country with fabric softener sheets in every nook and cranny to keep the mice from eating the hoses. The truck is going to our neighbor who will look after the three properties that Craig manages. My car will go on my mom's extra driveway. Cars: done.
Our cat is going to Craig's granddaughter's. Everyone seems happy with that arrangement. The cat has yet to be consulted.
I finally wrote out a list of about 15 things that must be done: Craig taking his driver's license test, turning off the utilities, taking the rest of the furniture to storage, going to the school district to have my insurance switched over,...... stuff like that. We have about 17 days to do it in. Oh yeah, if we have to be out by the first of March, make that 13 days. Yikes!
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