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Wishing you the best of luck for a quick sale. Where did all the stuff come from? Well, couldn't be from our house because we seem to have more than enough ourselves! Funny thing is, you look at a lot of the stuff you bought and wonder "Why"?
How exciting for you! We hope to be listed by early March!
I agree - so much stuff! UGH! I have started purging closets, etc., but our biggest hurdle will be the garage! Realtor said list it anyway when we are ready and just do what we can as we can. I think Bill is going to have to take a few days off work for that! I have to touch up paint (trying to wait til a warm enough to open windows for a little bit kind of day - not happening anytime soon here in the NE!) and a few other small things to do, nothing too big.
Hope you sell quickly with no issues, I actually wish that for all of us!
Best of luck with a quick sale!! Our nephew is a realtor in the DFW area and things have been really, really busy for him for the past year with a lot of really quick sales, bidding wars, etc. Hope that trend works in your favor.
Awesome news....and congratulations!! That's a big step forward and totally understand about SO much stuff. Even after starting to purge, I can't tell we've done anything!!! Here's hoping for a quick sale!!
This is so exciting and the downright exhausting part. I sure agree about all the stuff. You WILL make it through all this and hope we get to meet down the road.
Keep us posted on the house sale activity. 😃
Sherry
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I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way. - Carl Segan
Our "Rolling Rest Home" 2013 Trilogy 3650RL dragged by a 2005 GMC Sierra 4x4 Diesel Dually -SOLD
Fixing up is almost finished now; maybe another day or 2 for the finishing touches. Then it's up to us to finish purging. We've already almost filled up one dumpster and will need to have it emptied and returned! SO MUCH STUFF!!!
So our Class of '14 so far is you (el Rojo), Debbie & Steve, and Bill & Kelly. When we all hit the road this year, we'll all have meet up and pop the cork on the celebratory champagne!
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Cheryl B. in her new RV
(well, not new any more! Full timing since 6/25/14)
2008 DRV MS 36TKBS3 (the CoW: Castle on Wheels), 2005 Ford F550 hauler (the Bull)
Thanks again everybody. Good idea Cheryl, we should have a G2G! Cindi welcome to the class of '14. Something tells me this will be a big group. We need to prod our ole' buddy MarkS to join us, tell that boss of yours you want that last paycheck sooner than later.
I am so there for the champagne! IF all our houses are sold by rally - wouldn't that be the best!? It would become one hell of a partying week! Count Bill and I in for sure! (even if all our houses aren't sold - we could celebrate early - you know - fake it til we make it!)
Good luck with the sale. Hope yours goes like ours, it sold in 14 days after 17 showings, it never got advertised before it was sold.
I don't miss my "Stuff" one bit. I am no longer manly....I have no table saw, cop saw or my big red tool box. I can live with the shame just so long as I don't have to work anymore. Good bye tools, lawn mower, edger, leaf blower and shovels. Be gone rakes. Good bye tall ladders (it really hurts when you fall off them).
Come to think of it I haven't even thought of that junk in the last six months. I must be a fully recovered ex-worker.
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Russ & Terri Ranger
Travel since July 2013
Home base: Buckeye,AZ
Wandering the USA & Canada in our Holiday Rambler Endeavor 40' PDT Motorhome
Travel so far: 49 States - International Travel -19 countries
Well, I won't make the Spring Rally, but I already made my reservations for the Fall Rally. Will make that one even if the house hasn't sold!
The tools I am most looking forward to never missing again are the snow shovels and the snowblower.
So our Class of '14 so far is you (el Rojo), Debbie & Steve, and Bill & Kelly. When we all hit the road this year, we'll all have meet up and pop the cork on the celebratory champagne!
Don't forget us! We sell the DW's car in April because the license plates expire. That means the tow vehicle has to be bought in April. House goes on the market the 1st of May. Will be instructing the realtor we want the closing by the end of June. Coach will be bought in May or June and we hit the road the first part of July. Won't be able to make the Rally, though. We have comitments in WI, WA, OR, and CA. This is the "Plan" anyway....set in very solid jello.
Hope to meet all of you sooner or later. Sounds like 2014 will have a big freshman class!
Good luck on a quick sale! It is so encouraging to hear how quickly others are selling. We are right behind you, house should go on the market in another week or two, just finishing up some minor repairs. We are so excited!! Very much looking forward to meeting you all at the spring rally in TN and here's hoping these houses are all sold by then :)
Jo
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Jo & Ben
2014 Arctic Fox 32-5M 5th wheel pulled by a 2014 Ford F350 DRW
We are listing beginning of March - we are doing an initial meeting with realtor tomorrow!
The stuff just keeps coming up for trash or whatever, but I think that is part of the process in realizing that its not the stuff that matters its the journey about to be started so its so much easier to let go of it - disengaging. LOVE IT.
Great journeys Dreamers!
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Linda
5er: 2014 Dynamax Trilogy 3650RL (#311!) "Dagny" ~> bossed around by "Roth" the 2012 Dodge Ram 3500 DRW & may follow in MY Jeep Wrangler that I can not give up just yet
I hope it sells fast so you can move on to your next adventure. I'm a little jealous, wish we were closer to hitting the road but we have so much stuff to purge first. We are meeting with a real estate agent on Tuesday but we won't be able to put the house on the market until March or April.
Red,in 2008 we put our first home up for sale absolutely no takers. Rented it out all these years to our son, listed it on December 13,2013. Packed up RV and left on Monday (16) realtor called as we were leaving with 2 contracts on house! We did take the one that was a little less offer, no inspection all cash. Closed December 30. This house was in Garland suburb of Dallas Texas.
We are under contract with an investor so if all goes well we will close next month. We have another house to sell before we can buy our dream 5th wheel but hopefully one house down, one to go! Lots of stuff to purge though.
I am so there for the champagne! IF all our houses are sold by rally - wouldn't that be the best!? It would become one hell of a partying week! Count Bill and I in for sure! (even if all our houses aren't sold - we could celebrate early - you know - fake it til we make it!)
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Haha - I would LOVE that! Uh, the house selling by rally AND party anyway We are almost on the same timeline Jrzygrl64!
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Linda
5er: 2014 Dynamax Trilogy 3650RL (#311!) "Dagny" ~> bossed around by "Roth" the 2012 Dodge Ram 3500 DRW & may follow in MY Jeep Wrangler that I can not give up just yet
We will be doing the same about April. Good luck on your sale process.
Talk about junk! I realized that we still have boxes of "stuff" the have sat down in the basement since we moved in to this place in 1993. Maybe we don't need it after all.
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Dave&Meg M
Traveling in our Land Yacht and sailing the Asphalt Seas of America
5er: 2014 Dynamax Trilogy 3650RL (#311!) "Dagny" ~> bossed around by "Roth" the 2012 Dodge Ram 3500 DRW & may follow in MY Jeep Wrangler that I can not give up just yet
Awesome, congrats!! Now the fun (NOT) waiting game for all the steps between now and the closing begins. Hope everything goes smoothly and easily for you guys!! :)
Best of luck with a quick sale!! Our nephew is a realtor in the DFW area and things have been really, really busy for him for the past year with a lot of really quick sales, bidding wars, etc. Hope that trend works in your favor.
That's really great to hear. I have been asking around and folks do seem to be selling quicker. We are listing right after the rally. The house needs a full paint job first and it's to cold up here for that until March.
Red - Congrats!!! Now, take a deep breath, enjoy your beer and get at least one night of good sleep. You'll need it to get through the final whirlwind of purging!!
Guess that means that by the time we cross the Red River heading from OKC to Lewisville in March you will be long gone, hope to meet you somewhere down the road.
Congrats on the sale, Red. The stars are aligning on the next phase.
Beer drinking, celebratory dances. 25 yards unsportsmanlike conduct per Referee MarkS. Red appeals the penalty.... Upon further review, the ruling on the field is overturned.... Happy dance authorized!!!!