Hurray up and Wait!!!

That’s how I feel at the moment. I’m ready to move to Mexico…TODAY…but my hands are tied until my townhouse sells. As soon as my boss gave me the verbal OK to relocate my job, I started putting all my plans into motion. I called the listing agent for my townhouse, scheduled my first round of necessary shots with my Dr, looked into getting a SKYPE phone, called the vet to make sure that Reese has all his shots in order, scheduled a dental cleaning and exam (which I’ve since canceled), looked into the cost of buying a new laptop, and started throwing away all my old winter clothes and boots. I’m ready…..I wanna go…someone buy my place!!!!

It’s frustrating not knowing when I’ll be able to make the big move. My plan is still the end of August, but as each week goes by, I keep thinking I might not make it there until mid September, early October? I had one VERY interested woman come look at my place at my 2nd Open House. She lives in the apartment across the street from me. She is an AS/400 programmer, so we almost speak the same language. She moved here from Ohio where the job market sucks and took a job 3 miles down the road. She hates living in the apartments as she has 6 people living above her and she there beer parties every weekend outside her bedroom window. She kept commenting about how beautiful my place was and we even measured for her dinning room table. She also asked if I’d be willing to leave my patio furniture, but I told her my mom already called dibs on it. She said she’d be in touch.

A week later, I found out that she called my listing agent and asked a bunch of questions that I had already answered for her. It seems that she didn’t believe me when I said I was moving to Mexico. Okay…who makes up a lie about moving out of the country?! It kind of hurt my feelings cause I was all happy and chatty with her and now I find out that she didn’t believe anything I was saying about my move and the property. But, I’m sensitive that way.

She indicated to my listing agent that she was interested in making an offer, but when my agent asked if she had pre-approval financing, she said no. Rose, my listing agent, said she can put in offer but with a contingency that she’d get financing in ‘x’ number of days. Linda, said she’d be in touch.

That was a week ago. I’m finding I wake up each morning now with a knot in my stomach. My goal is to be in Playa at the end of August, but if I don’t get an offer in the next 3 weeks, it’s not going to happen. My employers are flexible enough that my Consultant contract with them will start when I’m ready to leave. In the meantime, I can only make tentative plans….but I’d really like for them to be solid.

Here is a link to my place!! It’s so cute!! If you know of anyone interested, please send them my way!!

Had I known that the patio furniture would be a deal breaker, I would have thrown it in and dealt with Nan….