Frantic Pace

Never did we expect the project of emptying the house to be so time consuming. We took another trip to the storage unit yesterday and continued to empty drawers into boxes and load them into the truck for moving to our RV. We now have a sea of boxes in the trailer and no time to empty them and put things away as we begin our regular schedule at Spring Training today. The problem now is that the property manager is coming Wednesday to do a walk-through and analysis for setting up the renting of the house and we have no days off until Wednesday. That means working early mornings and at night after work to finish up by Wednesday.

I will go to the RV store this morning before going to work in order to get an extension for our sewer hose. The one we have is about 4 feet too short to make the connection to the drain and that is a top priority to fix. It's a shame that the RV repairs have taken us into the Spring Training schedule where we have very little free time to do our setup at the RV park. It is what it is and we will make the best of the schedule that we have...

New Location

Here is a quick shot of our new space in Pioneer RV Resort. I will update this post later as we had a super busy day yesterday and we need to leave now to finish up. Until Later....

 

 

Sorry, we just arrived back at the rig about a half hour ago and unloaded all the boxes from the truck. I'll try to give a full report in the morning. In the meantime, we will relax for the first time today...

Reunited Again

We received the welcomed call from the RV shop at around 3 PM yesterday telling us that the RV was ready for pick-up. It was the best news in almost two months. The service manager asked us to come as soon as possible to go over all the changes and, of course, to clear our tab.

Let me tell you - driving from Glendale to Mesa at 3:30 PM on a Friday afternoon is not the most wise decision. However, we had no choice. It took us over an hour and a half to drive the approximately 40 miles. We reviewed all the changes that were made, including our new TV system that was installed yesterday, and it all  looks great. We paid our bill, hitched up and drove home. It was a slightly better (faster) trip home and we parked the rig in front of our house for the night:

 

Our plan now is to load up the RV with all the "stuff" that we will need for travelling and take the fifth wheel to its home for the next couple months - Pioneer RV Resort in North Phoenix. It shouldn't take more than a few hours and we expect it be at the RV Resort at around noon today.

There are still a few odds and ends that we will need to take to storage, but for the most part, everything is there that should be. We will take the rest of today to settle-in at the RV park and tomorrow we will empty the house totally.

We are almost there, and we are about ready for the property manager to take over the house...

Finally at the End

Just like that - we received notice yesterday AM that the work on our RV will be done today and we will be able to pick it up tonight. We took our TV's and DirecTV receivers over to the shop late yesterday afternoon and the new satellite and our TV's will be installed this afternoon. Once that work is done, we will hitch it up and drive it to our house. Our plan is to bring it directly to the house and park it out front overnight so we can load it up tomorrow. Then, we will drive to the RV park, check-in, and get settled for the next couple months before heading out to Jackson, WY - via Washington.

We also made an appointment with our property manager to come to the house next Wednesday for a final analysis and review before going public looking for tenants. We are finally at the end of the tunnel.

There are some items that we need to take to storage today and we still have to sort and separate our clothes that we are taking with us in the RV. All of the other RV contents are packed and ready to load into the fifth wheel. We will work the Spring Training games for the rest of March, beginning Monday, and Josie will work the flower shop in April and through Mother's Day. Hopefully, our tenants will be settled by then and we will be off and running...

Frustration Mounts

The frustration mounts as we heard nothing from the RV shop on any progress. It is now to the point where we must once again postpone our start at Spring Training for another few days while we wait to get a pick-up date and reschedule our arrival at the RV park. If there is any positive from all of this, we may save some money at the RV park by not staying as long until we leave for Jackson.

We took our houseplants over to Jamie yesterday for her to enjoy. She was appreciative and will take good care of them.

We also had our carpets cleaned and deodorized yesterday. They weren't that dirty, but it will be a help in attracting tenants. There isn't anything left to do inside except separate the clothes and other belongings that we will take with us versus those that go to storage. Right now, we are planning to return to this area in October, but who knows where we will end up if we get a super tenant and Josie doesn't get a commitment to work seasonally at the flower shop...

Dates Still Unknown

The only resolution of any dates yesterday was the cancellation of our TV work to be done at Camping World. It turns out that our dealer who is working the rest of the repairs can also install the TV items we had Camping World set to perform. Our dealer can do the same thing for close to the same price and since the RV is already there, we can save some time in the moving process to Pioneer RV. There is no sure date for completion though.

We took our outside furniture to the storage unit yesterday and were able to fit everything into the storage unit without a problem. We still have sufficient room for the rest of our belongings which we will take there over the next few days.

The only real scheduled event for today is the carpet cleaning and deodorizing. They are expected to arrive around 11 AM this morning and we will be ready. Also, Josie plans to take our houseplants over to our friend Jamie sometime today or tomorrow. We will most likely take another load to our storage unit sometime today if all goes well...

Scheduling Mess

Just when it appears that everything is set on a good schedule, the RV repairs get pushed back again. Evidently there were more parts for a hydraulics problem that took longer to arrive and the work was pushed back another week. That throws our entire schedule out of whack and forces us to miss the first few games of Spring Training. Worse, it pushes back our check-in date at Pioneer RV Resort and pushes back the start of our tenant search by the property managers. The RV dealer has had our unit for almost two months. We obviously weren't counting on such a long project . Nothing can be done until the work is complete on the RV.

We received a call from our storage facility late yesterday afternoon informing us that the lock on our storage space is not fully engaged. Wow! We immediately went to the storage location and sure enough - the lock was ok, but the door wasn't fully closed to catch the locking mechanism. We took the opportunity while there to rearrange some things to make room for more "stuff" that we will be taking to the unit. This shot is probably the "next to last" shot before we close it up for the season (or longer):

The last shot will be after everything is stored that should be placed in the unit. Of course, much of that stuff should be sold or given away.

All of the interior painting is done on the house now, so it is just about ready for renters. We still have the carpets to be cleaned and deodorized which will be tomorrow and the final move-out when the RV is ready. We are so close now if we can only get the fifth wheel out of the shop...