OWN IT DAY!

ABOVE:  At some point today, we will own our new home.

We don't expect to get the keys to our new home until mid 
 late afternoon.

I simply can't wait!

Once we are up and dressed, we will go over to our 'old' home and load up the trailer with a few things and the cars with our last minute stuff.

Then we will head off to Hamilton.

We can book into our next motel at about 2 pm I think, so we will probably kill some time at the mall.  And with any luck we can pick up our new trailer cage sometime today.

Mitre 10 said it would arrive today.  Fingers crossed it does.

Right now though, we better get a move on, there is still that stuff to do at our Cambridge home, before we leave it for good.

ONWARD...

ABOVE: The estate agent in Hamilton gave us this gorgeous salad bowl yesterday!

So lovely if her. 

BREAKFAST just arrived...Stew went and got it... so I will have that before we leave the motor camp.

8.45 am:  And we are back at the house.  Time to clear the fridge, put all our stuff in the cars and trailer and get outta here ... probably by lunchtime.

We just heard from our lawyer re: the final state of the Hamilton house.  They are legally required to give us 'VACANT POSSESSION'... which means the house and section are empty of their belongings.  They do not (by law) have to leave it clean or weeded.

Yep.  So, we just have to hope that they are nice people and do a decent clean and tidy up of the section.

WE will ALL know how that goes by the end of the day.  

Sorry about the 'cliff hanger' yesterday re: the Moving Company.

They underestimated the quantity of stuff we had.  So they emailed us late yesterday and told us we had to pay $500+ more to cover the amount over and above what they calculated we had.

And we have to pay it by TODAY.

So we were rather floored, because we got a FIXED PRICE QUOTE from them and paid it bang on time.

It's not OUR FAULT they underestimated the quantity of our furniture and effects is it!

So, we emailed them back pointing out we had a fixed price quote, and it wasn't our fault they had got it wrong. And then we said we WOULD PAY by the end of today if we had no choice, because they now have all our stuff and kinda have us over a barrel.

I am now stressing out over that.  Of course! Who wouldn't?

If we have to pay the EXTRA $500+ we will be going to a lawyer about it as soon as we can.  Or Fair Go.  AND bad mouthing them on every social media platform we can.  It's just NOT ON what they are doing.  It's blackmail.

ABOVE:  It took me 5 LONG days, and over $100 worth of chemicals to get the pool clear again!
OMG Algae is the pits.

But, I'm very happy that I got it clear for the new owners.

BEST NEWS EVER TODAY...  all my blood test results came back NEGATIVE.  That's the 6 month follow up blood test after my needle stick injury at the Rest Home.  I was getting pretty sick with worry when they hadn't come back after 10 days.  But, that incident can finally be put behind me.  Thank God.

Lacy did a drive by of the Hamilton house, and it's all go there.  Allied Pickfords are there loading them up... that's the moving company we are using as well.  Hmmmm, I hope the Hamilton people don't get stung like us.

Stew and Brylee have gone into Hamilton to pick up the Trailer Cage.  That's going to make things so much easier for us on the weekend, when we unload everything from the Tamahere Storage Units.  

It's a beautiful day here today, nice cool wind, but a clear sky.  It's so weird sitting here, on me camp chair, with NOTHING in the house. I walk around and it echo's when you talk!  *smiles*

So thankful my computer is still up and running.  In a couple of hours I will have to pack it up too.
Then I don't know how long it will be before I can use it again.
If there's no internet connection set up at the new house for a few days I will have to use my freakin' phone.

THEN you can expect shitty, short blog posts!


And as of around 12.30 today we no longer own our Cambridge home.

We are loading up all out last minute things and heading off to Hamilton.

We just have to wait for the phone call this afternoon from the estate agent saying we can pick up the keys to our new home.

There's an update on the extra costs from the moving company. They have discounted it by $200... so we have paid it to ensure they do our delivery tomorrow.

I'm pretty sure Stew will be taking it up with them later.

 ABOVE: Saying bye to our beautiful Cambridge home.

ABOVE: Putting the new crate on the trailer... just in time for today's move.

ABOVE: All ready to leave.

ABOVE: Safely in our Hamilton motel, which is absolutely gorgeous.

Now we await the phone call saying we can pick up the new house keys. It's nearly 3 pm, so all going well that will be in an hour or so.

NERVOUS about what state it will be in.

WELL... we still hadn't heard from the solicitors by 5 pm so we rang the estate agent.

We had paid for the house at midday so technically we should have been given the keys not long after that.

But no. They were not finished moving out until 5.45 pm!

I went into town and got the key at 5.30 and we went over to the house moments after they had left.

It was CLEAN!  Not bad at all. I was gobsmacked. The only thing I had to do was all the windowsills!  And they had done SOME weeding... good enough that I didnt feel like hiring a gardening company tomorrow.

Stew went around and sprayed weed killer on the worst places.

We unpacked the trailer and cars... Lacy came over and gave us a hand.

I took some photos and a couple of videos. Hopefully you can see one little video tonight.  In NO particular order...

 ABOVE: Just for now... Brylee gets to put her car in the garage. After tomorrow  she never will again.  *smiles*

 ABOVE: Empty sunroom and gym room.

 ABOVE: Empty family room.

 ABOVE: Empty lounge.

 ABOVE: PLANT GONE.

 ABOVE: Empty sewing studio.

 ABOVE: The second plant to go. Our really big pot is going here.

ABOVE: THIS was the very first plant TO GO! Lacy pulled it out for me.

ABOVE: Lacy getting the first plant to go OUT. Lol

And now we are back at the Hamilton motel for the night. Tired as.