Newest Update for You All

Since you've all been waiting patiently, I thought I would share with you all that we are moving forward with moving.

We have found a house, made an offer, and had that offer accepted...

AND

we have listed the Hammond house, had multiple offers, and accepted one of those offers.

...and now we wait.

After these offers were accepted, next thing was the home inspections.  One was done on both the house I am purchasing and the house I own.  My realtor and I provided the homeowners with a list of things that we wanted repaired, and I was provided with a list of things that the to-be-Hammond-homeowners wanted repaired in my Hammond house.

Most things for the Hammond house are minor --

(1) the plug in the garage should be changed over to a GCFI plug -- Mike (boyfriend) will do this

(2) the garage door will be repaired (it was off it's track at the time of inspection) -- a garage door company has already come and repaired this

(3) low water pressure issues throughout the house would be evaluated by a licensed plumber and repaired -- as I write this, the plumbers are cleaning up after having been here for about 7 hours, re-plumbing the entire damn house with copper lines

(4) gutters need cleaned -- Brad (worker) will do this, as soon as I borrow a ladder 

(5) furnace will be cleaned / have a maintenance check -- furnace company came and did this last week

Other than the plumbing job which is costing a small fortune, the other repairs aren't a big deal.  I asked for a bit more major stuff for the home I am buying, such as repairing / replacing a (possibly non-working) furnace (there are two furnaces and two AC's for the house, due to there being an addition), having an electrician come out and fix all the non-grounded outlets in the home (which was most of them), and having the well shocked to eliminate the bacteria.  Thankfully, the person who owns that home has agreed to make all the necessary repairs.  Yay.

So, at this point... we wait.  I am working on the repairs on my end -- the garage door was done last week, the furnace was done a few days later, the plumber was here the same day as the furnace guy to get an estimate... and today they were here working on the plumbing.  When the plumbing is wrapped up, all that will be left to do here in Hammond (as far as repairs) will be the GCFI outlet and cleaning the gutters.

Well... sort of.  Let's note, the plumbers were here due to low flow issues on two pipes.  One pipe, yes, did have low flow issues.  The other area... they said the faucet is bad, and that's why there's low flow.  Maybe I can get Mike to throw a new faucet on that sink for me.

I would also like to accomplish some minor yard work, cleaning up the backyard, and of course, I still need to remove everything from the house.  There's not a LOT here, but there's stuff that I can't be without until the very end... so that stuff will wait, and in the meantime, Brad and I are still churning out orders, and making runs to the storage unit, to stash stuff away.

I have (at least temporarily) removed my drill press from Ohio to a friend's shed in Portage, so I can still make those (clearly) beloved hammock shelves that I can't seem to keep in stock, and I'm looking to get a chop saw in the near future, which will probably also be in Portage until I'm able to get into the new place.  My friend Colette, who helps sew hammocks / tube covers / hanging houses / etc... she just shipped me a box of hammocks along with some tube overs and hanging houses... those will be listed soon, as soon as I grab some tubes out of storage, to put the covers on.  So... until closing, business is more or less as usual here.  It's awfully quiet, without all the people coming and going, and it's weird seeing the house so empty... but good things are on the way.