2016-05-04 Wednesday

This week has proven very interesting as I am traveling for work in Alberta and I have left Chris to start getting everything ready for sale, including the showing of the house to two potential buyers.

One of the buyers has been asking us for the past 3-years when are we going to sell her, her home. She has been a wonderful neighbor until she moved out earlier in the year.

Marylu has been living up the street from us until recently and when she came to look at the house we learned a little more about her and her business.

She is a real estate agent and helps Mexican families get into homes that they would not normally be able to get into.

She holds the contracts on the homes and they pay her back with a contractual agreement.

About a week before we made our decision to sell, a home on the street before us went up in flames, turns out this was one of her homes. What we learned was the tenants had only been there about 7-months and about 3-months ago they cancelled their homeowners insurance... major reason we did not want to hold a contract on our home... As the homeowner, Marylu is responsible for the clean up and the removal of the home, the buyers got away scott free... bad scenario but this also caused Marylu to redo her contacts and make all tenants use one specific insurance company for her protection.

As we are traveling to Calgary, I am enjoying the trip as it will be a while before I will be back, the new job takes me away from what I have been doing for the past two years and I work at learning more new things in transportation, and traveling will be different.

I am very excited and of course there is some concerns as this is a drastic change for both of us. 

We will try and document not only our trip but what we are doing up there as are looking very forward to getting back to Alaska.

2016-05-01 Sunday

We have come to a cross road in our life... the decision to make such a drastic change in our lives did not come easy to either of us. 

So as you may or may not already know we are currently downsizing our living arrangements by selling everything that we don't want; packing what little things we do and moving out.
We've been living in our home for the past 14 years and as we look back over those years the decision comes much easier for us. 

We had a Five-Year Plan which turned into 14 years and throughout those 14 years we have done a lot.
Chris and I have been married almost 17 years and although we have had our ups and downs our ups have far surpass our downs.
The past few months we have done some major changes in our lives and here we start May with some more major changes. 

We've decided to leave Washington State and move to Alaska. I've been given an incredible opportunity and have struggled over the past week as I do enjoy very much where I currently work and more so the people I work with. 

Over the past two years we have built a working relationship and wonderful friendships, unfortunately though this is not enough as it does not pay the bills. Working for a Fortune 500 company has it draw backs as not everyone there wants appreciates that experience is often learned through life's lessons and not in a classroom.

Lucky for me though, there are still companies out there that appreciate what a person brings to the table in regards to real life and not book work alone.