"The time has come....
Aug. 1st, 2010 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_planThe Walrus said, to talk of many things,
Of shoes and ships and sealing wax,
Of cabbages and kings
And why the sea is boiling hot,
And whether pigs have wings"
The Plan®
Ya know, honestly, this isn't where in the game we were supposed to be right now. After 5 months of unemployment, and not sure where or how I'm gonna get on, we're gonna have to change the plan.
It's time to think about selling up here in Seal Cove. Truth be told we haven't really done any of the work we'd planned on doing when we moved in two years ago, hell we haven't even finished unpacking. However, we can bank a fair chunk of money if we sell up here and move further 'Outport', but the place is gonna need some work before we do. Some minor maintenance, and some of the finishes here are just so dated as to be embarrassing. It was and is a great house - well built with lovely bones, but it was built in 1979 and some of the finishes haven't been touched since, and the ones the previous owners did do - well they didn't always do the best job.
The kitchen is a nightmare - the cabinetry was handmade by the builder in 1979, and they're dreadful and don't work. The vinyl flooring is OK, but it's cheap looking.
So James is gonna see if the Australian government will let him cash in his retirement savings over there and we'll see if that won't a) get us a cheap place Outport ($129,000?? maybe) - we saw one in Fortune that promises to be a very good deal. And we'll put a little money into getting this place dolled up for sale. If we can walk out with $350,000 we'd be doing OK (mortgage is $144,000). If we can sell the property we've got up in Western Bay as well (been on the market 10 months now) - we'll be right as rain. All that happens we should still be able to look for a small income property (2 apartments) in town. If I land a job that has me commuting, well we'll be able to keep the line of credit going, and I'll have an apartment in town to stay in.
If the funds don't come through, we'll do what we can on the super cheap - I've got enough paint to do some work on some stuff, and we can shift the pedestal sink in the master bath to the powder room for instance. Repurposing is the way to go here. Inexpensive, not cheap! is the order of the day. I'll be tackling most of the renovation work, while James focuses on getting the business off the ground.
Still things are starting to get to a scary place. We've got arrangements made to get the Feychild off to college in the fall - although we're still waiting to hear on the government funding for that. The Man Child is away until the end of September. Hopefully things will be more decided by then. We are not derailed yet!
So it's still The Plan®, we've just had to accelerate things a bit faster than we'd meant to.
Of shoes and ships and sealing wax,
Of cabbages and kings
And why the sea is boiling hot,
And whether pigs have wings"
The Plan®
Ya know, honestly, this isn't where in the game we were supposed to be right now. After 5 months of unemployment, and not sure where or how I'm gonna get on, we're gonna have to change the plan.
It's time to think about selling up here in Seal Cove. Truth be told we haven't really done any of the work we'd planned on doing when we moved in two years ago, hell we haven't even finished unpacking. However, we can bank a fair chunk of money if we sell up here and move further 'Outport', but the place is gonna need some work before we do. Some minor maintenance, and some of the finishes here are just so dated as to be embarrassing. It was and is a great house - well built with lovely bones, but it was built in 1979 and some of the finishes haven't been touched since, and the ones the previous owners did do - well they didn't always do the best job.
The kitchen is a nightmare - the cabinetry was handmade by the builder in 1979, and they're dreadful and don't work. The vinyl flooring is OK, but it's cheap looking.
So James is gonna see if the Australian government will let him cash in his retirement savings over there and we'll see if that won't a) get us a cheap place Outport ($129,000?? maybe) - we saw one in Fortune that promises to be a very good deal. And we'll put a little money into getting this place dolled up for sale. If we can walk out with $350,000 we'd be doing OK (mortgage is $144,000). If we can sell the property we've got up in Western Bay as well (been on the market 10 months now) - we'll be right as rain. All that happens we should still be able to look for a small income property (2 apartments) in town. If I land a job that has me commuting, well we'll be able to keep the line of credit going, and I'll have an apartment in town to stay in.
If the funds don't come through, we'll do what we can on the super cheap - I've got enough paint to do some work on some stuff, and we can shift the pedestal sink in the master bath to the powder room for instance. Repurposing is the way to go here. Inexpensive, not cheap! is the order of the day. I'll be tackling most of the renovation work, while James focuses on getting the business off the ground.
Still things are starting to get to a scary place. We've got arrangements made to get the Feychild off to college in the fall - although we're still waiting to hear on the government funding for that. The Man Child is away until the end of September. Hopefully things will be more decided by then. We are not derailed yet!
So it's still The Plan®, we've just had to accelerate things a bit faster than we'd meant to.