May 19th - A pink spare bathroom... has to go.....

May 19th, 2016

I am trying to capture some of what is going on in the beginning stage without detailing everything that seems to change from minute to minute. So for now I am not writing entries every day. Surely that will change after we are actually in the house.

The biggest hold up at the moment is still the roof, and we are hoping to have everything figured out and moving forward. We thought we would have through the month of July to stay in our current rental, but it appears that won’t be the case. With the trips we have planned, the needed first renovations, and the move, we are feeling a touch stressed that we can make this whole thing happen, and not have something go wrong. The appraiser is set to come out next week, and we are set to close by June 10th. We are really hoping to close way before then. We leave for Europe June 10th and don’t come back till the 19th. That leaves us 2 weeks to move, deep clean both houses, start the renovations, and potentially finish some of the renovations.

I have already set out the plan for what needs to be done, when, how much effort and money it should take, and lists of needed items. Some things have been moved around as far as our planning. Initially we thought about waiting to do the bathrooms, but after a bit of late night discussions sitting in our den chairs we came to agree that we should at least redo the spare bathroom in the beginning. Between this and the painted walls and new floors in the bedroom, we will at least have a space that is ready to use that is comfortable. We have also bumped up some of the preferred things we want for the home (like a hot tub :) ) and created a few more big things on the task list.

Throughout our conversations, one of the big things that keeps popping up is that we will be using the sweat labor of friends and family. We don’t want to forget to show our appreciation for how amazing they are for not only offering, but wanting to step up and helping us to realize our dream. We have planned good barbecues with lots of extra beer and good music. We are hoping that we can pay for some of the help, we would love to pay for ALL of the help, but, no surprise that we are trying to do this on the cheap.