Our Nest is Empty… And We Are Homeless!

Weeks Team Member Sherri Holzman invites you to follow along as she and her husband prepare for their next chapter:

I think the euphoria of selling our house so quickly is starting to wear off and being replaced by the terror that we will be homeless come April 30!

We’ve looked around for re-sale ranch homes in our area and there just isn’t that many. The ones we’ve seen all need a lot of updating and the rooms are very defined, nowhere near an “open concept.” We’ve also looked at some patio-homes but find most of them don’t have any unfinished space in the basement. Some have a storage area, but none have room for Ron’s workbench and tools.

If we are willing to move north there are more options but that is not convenient at all for Ron to get to work. Sometimes he will go there a couple of times in a day. It has been so nice being just 10 minutes from our store. Going south or east of the store takes us a further distance from our grandchildren. I don’t want that! When Mimi needs a baby fix, Mimi needs it fast!

New construction seems to be our best option. We will start with a clean slate. Everything will be new and we will have picked the style and colors. The only draw back is how long it will take and where will we live in the meantime?

Another quandary, do we want to live in a community that takes care of all the grass cutting and snow removal? We aren’t that old and can still do it, but do we want to? We are planning this to be our “forever” home and there may come a point when one, or both, of us are unable to do that sort of thing. We know we don’t want to have shared walls with another home, so it will have to be a freestanding single family home.

Oh my, a new wrinkle just hit me! What are we going to do with all of our furniture and stuff? Should we hire a moving and storage company, rent a storage unit and move our things ourselves (we do have 3 sons to help!), or do we get a couple of PODs? We will need to keep our clothes, computers and business supplies/files with us. What else do we need for daily life?

Enough! We have our home inspection tomorrow and after that it should be smooth sailing toward closing on this house. I’m going back to celebrating for a bit. There is time to make decisions later!