As you know, I am moving out of state. I had an agreement with my boss to transition into another role which wouldn’t require me to be on site (theoretically anyway). We agreed that I was a good fit for the position and I transitioned my responsibilities to one of the people who worked for me.

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Some quick updates…

It was a long week last week… Spent Wednesday at the doctor’s getting a shot for the poison ivy I picked up during our house hunting trip. Thursday morning we picked up a 26 foot UHaul truck and car trailer.

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I’m home today dealing with a bad case of poison ivy… :/ Probably got it from all the landscape cleanup we’ve been doing. Going to the docs in a little bit in the hope that they can give me some steroids and get me functional by tomorrow.

Tomorrow we’re packing up a U-Haul with all of the stuff that my wife’s new employer won’t pay to move (mainly horse tack, some hay fencing etc) as well as some clothes for my wife and the cats. Then early Friday we hit the road to Peoria, Subaru in tow. We close on our house at 2:30, then go unload the truck and settle in. Saturday morning we start putting up fencing then I fly back to Detroit.

I’ll be staying in Detroit until early-mid September. Want to finsih getting the house ready to sell and we’ll need to keep the horses here until the new place is ready for them.

Needless to say I probably won’t be posting much over the next few days. Maybe on Sunday if I wake up.

We’re also in the process of clearing out our junk and other unwanted items. I am amazed at the amount of crap we’ve accumulated in a fairly short amount of time… It got me to thinking how we become slaves to the things we own, whether through the payments we make on them, or the money we spend on upkeep or even the space we must have just to store them.

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One of the realtors we’re considering to sell our home did some comps. She had a hard time putting a value on the property, mainly because of the amount of land we have (10 acres) and the lack of properties quite like it. Eventually she came up with a suggested asking price of $530K. This seems high to me but we’ll try it out and see. If we get anywhere near that we’ll be thrilled. Our current mortgage balance is just over $230K.

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