First, we talked to Kyle last night and he really wanted to come up and help us unload - thanks, Kyle! It will be good to see him too - haven't seen him since Christmas. So we are supposed to pick him up from the bus stop at the casino at noon.
We never heard from the realtor last night so we were a little anxious about that. But while we were at breakfast, he called. He gave our proposal to the owner and she was receptive to our price and conditions. She wants to meet us here at the hotel and go over paperwork. So here we wait.
Evening update:
The apartment owner came to the hotel around 10:30. She's an older woman but very nice. Paperwork was slow and a little painful - we haven't had to fill out rental forms in eons! She was agreeable to all our conditions and price so that was key. Jim had to leave after an hour or so because the end wasn't in sight and he had to go pick up Kyle. While he was gone, we got the paperwork done and then left to get a key made. She dropped me back at the hotel.
Kyle and Jim were waiting in the lobby for me - it was so good to see him! We came back up to our room and had lunch...leftover pizza anyone?
First on the agenda was taking the truckload to the storage unit. Jim and Kyle worked really hard and we actually had everything organized into the unit in less than 2 hours! Our plans were to take some apartment things there, but we decided that there wasn't enough to warrant a trip there in the truck so we just put it separately in the storage unit. We can take it to the apartment with the next truckload.
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| Kyle unloading the truck |
After that and a quick trip back to the hotel for a water break, we had to go look at the land again. It's just so beautiful. The weather has really cooperated too - beautiful sunshine. Still chilly and a stiff wind that makes it feel even colder but no rain.
We even made it to church tonight since it would be tough to make it in the morning. Unfortunately, not enough time to treat Kyle to a nice dinner so we had to make do with a quick trip to McDonald's before dropping Kyle off at the casino for the bus trip back to NYC.
Ironically enough, when we talked to Kyle our first night here, he was pretty sick with a bad head cold. That's why we really hated to have him make the trip up here. But practically the minute Jim got off the phone with him, he started coming down with a cold! The fact that he spent the last week working outside in the bitter cold on the truck probably contributed to that. So he's not feeling great but he forges on. We got some drugs so that helps.
We are giving Kyle the purple car - that way he can use it to travel back and forth while we're building. The problem is that it's so darn expensive to keep a car in NYC. He's still working that out but meanwhile we made arrangements to park the car at the apartment. So we got it all emptied out tonight - tomorrow on our way home we'll drop a key off with the realtor in case they have to move it for any reason and park it. I want to make sure the key works that we had made and I'll take some pics of the apartment.
I told Jim that just a week ago the truck was still in pieces! What a crazy week it's been and we feel so good with all we got accomplished.
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