Just a basic update. I know its really not all that exciting or important, but its very much both of those to us.
We are under contract and if everything goes to plan, by august 1st we should be eastbound and down, loaded up and trucking, we're gonna do what they cant be done, we got a long way to go and a short time to get there, (uh...something something) watch old bandit run...or whatever the rest of the words are, i just needed the first few lines but you get the point.
After 70 days on the market, 1400 page views on Zillow, 25 shoppers saved and not one offer...we finally had a nice couple put a bid on our house. Truth be told, we were getting quite discouraged and a little down about the whole thing. We scheduled a meeting with our realtor for last thursday to see about dropping the price and just taking whatever to get the hell outta here. As we were sitting with her, she got an email on her phone, the last people who saw our house put a bid on it for full asking price! She went to her office and came back with a bunch of paperwork and we started signing stuff.
The potential downside is that its a VA loan. The husband is in the Air Force and will be stationed at Creech AFB, a small drone base just up the road from us. His wife is very pregnant with their first child and this house/neighborhood would be perfect for them. But we know how VA loans often go...everything is on the seller and the appraisal will almost always come in much lower than a standard loan, but our realtor and another friend, a Lithuanian who flips houses, both say they deal with VA loans all the time and there's nothing to worry about...fair enough. If the appraisal is too low, or the list of "required repairs" set forth by the appraiser is too big and costly, we can refuse the offer altogether unless the buyer is willing to make certain amends. If not, there are lots of people looking at the house and school is out. Also, this is the time that military people transfer to new bases. So we'll see.
Our next goal is securing a small rental, taking a week to defrag, then finding some work. ideally, Devie would like to work in a fish packing plant or a small organic farm, and I would like to be a boat builders apprentice and learn skills that will help me when i make the switch to building guitars...but we will be happy to wash dishes for the time being.No matter what, things are looking up and our time in Vegas may mercifully be drawing to a close.
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Originally Posted by N2CHX
