Next part of the plan

Will 2013 be the year???

Things continue to move along at a snail's pace; as always due to either lack of money or lack of time.  We are still at the point of needing to make a lot of cosmetic repairs to the house in order to get it on the market (if we sell "as is" we won't make enough to pay off the mortgage, let alone have enough left over to buy the RV.  So it has to be marketable.  We're not planning to use top of the line materials, but to do just enough that prospective buyers won't walk in and think "what a dump."   The biggest "repairs" is replacing the 30 year old carpet with laminate wood flooring (we already did 2 rooms and the hallway;  now we have 5 bedrooms left), painting, replacing the garage doors and broken fence and front steps.

The next part of the plan is the downstairs floor and painting.  Hopefully we'll have enough money to get the work done in Jan or Feb.  In the meantime, there's major cleanup work - throwing away years and years of M's computer components, wires, cables, and other junk.  It's been an office and storage area and morphed into a huge mess.  The plan is once it's cleaned out and the flooring put down, we will turn it into a bedroom (which is what it really is!).  In the den, we will just get rid of the old, dilapidated entertainment center and perhaps just keep a couch facing the fireplace.  My company closes its offices between Xmas and New Year's, and I'm taking the week before that for vacation, so the plan is that I can get most, if not all, of the cleaning done during that time, the rooms'll be prepped by the time the money comes in.

Then again, it's almost always been our experience that when the money comes in, the car or house needs a major repair!  So who knows.  I won't give up on the plan anyway.