Pending Sale :-)

Well, while I was at my conference in New Hampshire presenting my poster of my life's work, we received and accepted an offer on the house! It sold about 35 days after it was placed on the MLS so we're thrilled about that. And it gives us money in the bank so that we will have it for closing when we find a house in the Indy area.

The sucky part starts this week. We have a PODS container coming on Tues for all of the furniture that we're not keeping with us during our temporary living space period. So it will be interesting to see what that thing looks like with our stuff in it. I figure I'll take pictures and post them (assuming I remember to do the latter).

So we close on Aug 11. Have termite inspection on July 29, and just need the appraisal and we should be set. Assuming that the buyer's financing is progressing, we should be good. They just sold their house and should be closing near to when we're closing on our house with them, so I would think that they should have the financing especially since they were pre-approved. No guarantee but better than nothing.

Indy here we come! (Eventually)

It appears that Gene's transfer to the Indianapolis Airport Tower is going through and were tentatively scheduled to start living in Indy in Jan 2009. Which seems like forever until you realize that it is a year and a half from now. The reason it is tentative is the fact that we'll get a more firm date around the holidays of this year after Champaign tower reviews its staffing after a bunch of people have transferred out and some newbies have transferred in. We actually may be living in Indy towards the end of next summer but nothing can be promised.

Gene got the job offer on Thursday, we talked about it over the weekend, he accepted the job on Monday morning, and within hours we had a tentative release date. I expected the release date to take a month but it looks like Gene's got a great manager and set of supervisors which try to do their best to do right by the folks in the tower. I'll definitely miss seeing everyone in Champaign but part of me is excited by the idea of having more job options than just U of I. Which honestly is probably just the difference between the devil you know and the devil you don't know. :)