So we have a tenant for our house. Signed contract and all that stuff. Their lease starts July 17th.
We have decided on a duplex in Denver. It's 8 houses down from Jen and Steve's house on the same street! It's a 2 bedroom on a corner lot, so the entrances to the units are on different streets. It also has a finished basement with a second full bath down there and a garage. It's a really nice place as far as finish work and kitchen/bath. We can't move in until August 1st, so we will be living with Jen and Steve for a couple of weeks.
We're VIP tenants. I would just call landlords and tell them about Heather and I over the phone and explain that Jen and Steve were viewing properties for us. The landlord always said something like this: "O.K. I will wait to hear from Jen and Steve before I show the house to anyone else." Every one of them offered us their houses. Damn it feels good to be an adult sometimes. I have to give some credit to Steve and Jen here: I would give them reason to believe we would be great tenants over the phone and then after they met Jen and Steve they were convinced that we were high class. I set em up, they knock em down.
We have 2 ABF moving cubes being dropped at our house on Monday the 14th. They are going to deliver them to the new place in Denver whenever we want. We prepaid for a months storage on them. These moving cubes are the only way to move! It turns out that they were cheaper than renting a truck and driving it ourselves. Once we decided to get a 2 bedroom place in Denver, we were going to take too much stuff to fit into a u-haul trailer behind the Jeep, so it was either cubes or truck.
We had our moving sale last weekend. Made $1,500. We only had 2 items over $50. One for $150 and one for $125. I made huge A frame signs to put on the busy streets. We had lots of traffic. It's amazing what hippies can carry on bicycles.
Our house is a disater area, but we're on track to get packed on time. It's a big house and we've been there for 10 years. Going through cabinets and drawers is a long process involving a whole lot of nostalgia. It's hard not to get lost in blissful memories of being young and fun. Now get back to work.
Another great thing about renting the house (besides the huge profits) is that we were forced to finally take care of all the house maintenance issues that we've been putting off for years. After every single item, I wondered which of us would be the first to say "why didn't we do this years ago"? The answer always involves the words Phil and lazy and/or fuckhead.
So we leave town on the morning of July 17th. Me driving the Jeep, Heather rolling the Lexus. We will be rocking walkie talkies that I stole from work. We will drive to Boise on Thursday and grab a hotel room for the night. We'll get up on Friday and drive to Park City, UT where we will spend the weekend with the Wageck family. We will get up Monday morning the 21st and drive from Park City to Denver. Easy as that.
I am hoping to take a flight to Atlanta later that week and hook up with Big Gar. We will drive to Arkansas and hangout with Old Man Phifer for a while before driving back to Atlanta.
Then I gotta get back to Denver and get a jobbie job. I'm thinking at this point that I'll try to get in with a brewer and learn how to really make beer. I know that I'll just be cleaning all the time, but I'll still get to learn. I dig brewers hours. Those cats work crazy early in the morning. And oh yeah- I kinda like beer too.
So that's that. Aint nothin to it but to do it.
