"It gets really hot down there". "It's not the heat it's the humidity". This are things, well warnings, we've heard from people about moving down South. Well, we've been there during July and august for the past four years and it gets hot, and humid, but it's been just as brutal up here in New Jersey.
So it looks like we're in for a beatdown this week. Feel like temps over 100 which is just perfect for working on and in this big old house without air conditioning. It'll be a good lung-training exercise in oxygenation in preparation for the Lowcountry heat. We're T-minus 17 days from closing and two weeks before the movers come and take our stuff down south.
We've signed up with Piece of Cake moving to handle the heavy work. Even paying someone else to move is a pain. Packing stuff correctly, and even trying estimate what and how much is going is maddening. Plus there's a two-parter, a stop her at the house and then over to the storage unit. In the end they quoted us $3,700, which to me seems fair. Theresa's brother owns a moving company and gave us the thumbs up with the company and their plan.
And then in the "C,mon guys" category of Facebook Marketplace stupidity comes the latest. My plan is to tow down the Cape Fishermen and leave it at The Shrimp Shack. It's basically the shell of a boat as I sold off the engine two years ago. But inside is about 30 gallons of ethanol free and treated gas.
I posted it and of course there was confusion, well there shouldn't have been. Did they really think I was selling the boat and trailer for $1, or if you read the description, for free? Needless to say the listing blew up.
So I had to respond back and then edit the listing, and they still didn't read it and the offers to "Come and get it now" kept coming in.
I do have a guy who got it right and plans to come and pump it out. If it's 30 gallons that an easy $100+ bucks of savings. Plus, it's 250 pounds less I'll have to tow down. When I do the fuel tank replacement it would have had to pumped out already so it's a step in the right direction.
Tomorrow I'll be heading down to New Egypt to a trailer place to have them inspect the Suburban before they order a new tow bar. Then after goes in I'll take the trailer down there for an axle/wheel inspection and lube and have the lights all redone. I still haven't transferred the title and registration from Jim and PA over to me yet, so add an appointment at the DMV to the list.
And of course the lawn needs to mowed, again, today and the growing buck-wild hedges and weeds need to be tamed. I can't wait to pay the $298 a month HOA fees and have all of our landscaping done and access to the pools, gyms, restaurants, golf courses, theatre, and activities that are covered under the monthly fee.
We're one real estate transaction done with four more to go. By July 25th it will all be over, hopefully, if this all doesn't kill me first.