Alex finished up at her work today, and brought her laptop home. She's now officially on a six day break to help move house, and after that she'll be working remotely, and part time only. Apart from the reduced office hours, that'll also save her 5 hours a week where she won't be sitting in traffic, so all in all this should be a huge change for her. If all goes according to plan, today may have been her last day ever, in a regular office job.
The Real Estate agent did the pre-settlement check today, and gave the all-clear. Apparently the current owner has also put all the doorknobs back in to the doors, so that's an unexpected bonus that we won't have to deal with. I called the lawyer to say we're happy to go ahead with the funds transfer tomorrow (settlement day!).
We've started packing, but we're nowhere near finished yet.
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| Emptying rooms out... |
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| ...and stacking the boxes in the dining room. |
Tomorrow we do as much packing as we can. Then on Saturday we're driving over there with a load of "too-fragile-to-trust-to-the-movers" stuff, and to get the key at noon. On Sunday we're back in Wellington to give the place a good cleanout, and finish packing. On Monday the moving company arrives in here to pick up our stuff, and they'll deliver everything on Tuesday. Then, on Wednesday we drive back to finish cleaning the (now empty) house, and at 11:00am the carpet cleaners turn up to shampoo the carpets, ready for the last inspection by the landlords at 2:00pm.
All in all, a busy week ahead - let's hope it all goes smoothly!
On other news, Harry messaged me today to say he'd found a really nice heatpump unit, and he managed to get a REALLY good price on it, at auction. So that's going well also!
