Closing and Moving

This week should prove to be busy, exciting, perhaps tiring, but ultimately good.

Today (Monday) we are expecting the final report from the appraiser. The initial appraisal was conducted a couple of weeks ago, just after Thanksgiving, and the house wasn’t complete then. The appraiser submitted a list of missing items that needed to be completed or installed to finish the job. All of the items were in place by last Friday, and the word we got was that the appraiser did return to the house Friday afternoon around one o’clock. Provided their amended report is submitted to the bank today, we can close on Wednesday.

On Wednesday, assuming we close that morning, we are planning on moving enough personal belongings, and a futon mattress, to the house, to allow us to stay there during the move. With two indoor cats we need to coordinate somethings to ease their transition and make life easier for us. The plan is to pack a suitcase for a couple of days “travel”, take our toiletries, a mattress, along with some kitchen supplies to the house Wednesday afternoon and evening. Once we are set up there, we’ll make one last trip to bring the cats to their new home. We’ll set them up in the master closet and bathroom, as that area will have our clothes (which smell like home) and is nicely secluded for hiding.

Wednesday afternoon the cable installer returns to complete our hookup for broadband Internet access. The builder and his structural wiring guy were able to fish a cable from the wiring closet in the basement up through an interior wall and down into the garage and then out through the back wall next to the electrical service for the house. With that in place the cable install should go smoothly.

Thursday will see the movers from Allied arrive to pack our household, and perhaps also the piano move. We are hoping the pianos can move in the morning, so that Sibylle can maintain her teaching schedule in the afternoon. This close to the end of the semester having to make up several lessons would be tricky. She is organizing her music so that we’ll know what needs to move with the pianos so that she’ll be able to teach in her new studio on day one.

Friday Allied will return with a truck and move us across town. In-town moves are slightly different that moves from one city or town to another. In-town you are charged by the hour rather than by the mile. Packing is still charged by the carton. We are anticipating a total Allied cost of roughly half what it cost to move from Olathe to Manhattan two years ago. It is our Christmas present to ourselves.

By Friday evening we should have most if not all of our belongings in the new house, which gives us the weekend to start to unpack, and begin living in our new home. We’ll need to return to Frey Drive to clean the house before handing in the keys, but we are paid through the end of the month there, so we’ve plenty of time for that activity.

After weeks and weeks of wishing our house was done, it is done, and now, this week, we get to take possession of it and move in.

Yay!