Two Emails to Joe about the status of The Move

The following are a couple of emails that I sent to Joe about the status of The Move. The plan was to get the condo 'market ready' shape as soon as possible, but this seems far from reality.

1. -To Joe on July 27

  I hope you had a great trip west.

He was not at his sharpest yesterday morning when I called Elsie's House, and he didn't seem to remember seeing you and Janny last week, but he did remember going to McD's.

And now to the 'move'.....

This is going like a mudslide in slowmotion. When the electrical work was being done it was decided that the old panel would have to be replaced. This was not a surprise, but there were problems with the permit and that shut down all work on the job, and that was very much a surprise (a long and convoluted story on that) 

It's my understanding that the work should be done by this evening, and then the work must be finally inspected. This could be accomplished as early as tomorrow or Wednesday. Then, drywall can begin, and I don't see the renovation being completed any sooner than early next week.  

All upstairs bedrooms at the condo are empty except for the bed and the computer table (and an old recliner that I don't know what to do with). These were items that I will have the movers take. Last Thursday I moved all eight standing wooden book cases and the books to 940 Westview. I rented a U-Haul van and had help for part of the job from the guy that painted the garage door and hung the new shutters. He will be hanging the bookshelves in the renovated area at Westview and will also do any touchups at the condo. However, I can't finalize this deal since he has other jobs and I can't give him an accurate and solid start date on the work. 

All the hanging bookshelves in the living room at the condo are down except for the one holding the stereo on the wall between the kitchen and living room. The books are all in boxes along the walls.  

In the downstairs area of the condo one out of three hanging bookshelves is down. I will go to County Market this morning to get more boxes. I'm going to wait until the basement area at Westview is complete until I start moving more boxes since there is no room over there and I only want to move all this stuff One Time. The theory is that the day the renovation is complete I can have Ernest Cummings hang the shelving and then I can begin moving the boxes to the new house and put them on the shelves.

Sometime later in the week I'd like you to take a walk through the condo and tell me the absolute least that I can do to get this ready for sale. My tentative move date with TWO MEN AND A TRUCK  is still August 10, and I hope that this happens on time (even with all the setbacks, the tenth seems doable). After I am living at Westview I can get serious about sprucing up the condo, but right now I'm more concerned about getting over to the new house. 

I still don't know how to move the two large television/monitors, and I haven't contacted ATT about establishing new internet service at Westview. I'm not 'moved' until an internet connection has been established at the new house and Buddy is in the Accord on his first visit to 940 Westview. ...seeya kw

PS...and to add to the excitement I have an appointment this morning for a 'somewhat emergency' root canal at a new dentist. My dentist of over fifteen years is not on the list of preferred dentists in the Cigna plan and any major work is not covered. The insurance covers routine exams and procedures by any dentist, but almost nothing is covered for major work (such as root canal) if your dentist is not on the list. I have had numerous root canals, but none since I've been retired and luckily I contacted Cigna before I had this new procedure or it would have cost me hundreds of dollars out of pocket. For the past couple of weeks I have been practically swigging from a little bottle of oral analgesic, and I never leave home without it. 

2.- To Joe on  July 30. (Janny and Joe were in Phoenix for a visit to Elsie's House and other things....)

Hey,

No need to visit the condo until I get further along with the move.

Yesterday evening I paid the guy for half of the work on the new breaker box. The total for that job is $2,100 and he told me that the 'arc-breakers' that the city made him install are unreliable and cause 'nuisance failures'. That means that the power kicks off for no reason (a nearly non-detectable surge in power which is entirely normal) and you have to go down in the basement and flip switches. He said that if it causes too much of a hassle he will reinstall the old breakers after the city is out of the picture. That whole procedure makes me livid, but nothing I can do.

This whole 'electrical process of waste' set back the renovation at least a week. The drywall might be done by Monday, and they still have to paint, trim, and apply the carpet tiles. Eric and his people must be done with the room before I can bring the thirty or so boxes of books from the condo to the house, so there's really no point in wasting your time to look at the condition of the condo until early next week. 

As soon as the basement room is ready, I'm going to rent another van from UHaul and move all the boxes and the bracket shelving to 940. And, also whatever else I think I can get out of here. I hope I can still make the 2 MEN AND A TRUCK move day on August 10th, but we'll see. 

Today I have to be present at Westview from 9am- noon to wait on a chair from Ashley Furniture. When the couch and sofa were delivered last week they found that the chair was defective. It had to go back to the warehouse to be fixed (sheared bolt in one of the legs made it impossible to attach). I'm also going to mow the lawn, for the fourth time! 

seeya, kw