This move...my gosh, how long have I wanted to move out of Florida? If you don't count college...I started looking toward Atlanta when I was working for AMC (because the opportunity was there), which was 1995ish...then in 2007, we sold off our first chunks of stock and tried to get a place in Columbia, SC. Thankfully, they turned us down, because we lost Dad only a month later.
It's ridiculous how little we've done to repair our credit since then. We do have a long way to go still. This is a gigantic first step, as moves go, but Hubs and I now will be concentrating on getting those scores up, so that home ownership isn't such a pipe dream. We're too dang old to have credit that lousy. The irony is I'll be increasing my score just so it will open doors; what I really want is to perform financial transactions via the "save and cash" method...it's so much more safe and frugal.
This intro is my long way of saying that IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING! There's a security deposit in the mail for an apartment in Weaverville, a little town about 15 minutes north of Asheville. I've booked a Budget truck rental and local movers to load and unload it for us. His mom is cosigning with us, and we liquidated the rest of my vested stock options.
This is a rather gigantic leap of faith. The only secure income I'll have at first is contract work with my current employer, which has the potential to net a whopping $26K a year (we won't go into the douchebaggery that is their contract rates). I need to find a real job and fast. I have every confidence that at the least, I'll be able to snag temp to perm with an agency, and that should get us some benefits. I pray this is the case. Hubs in particular, needs a pain mgmt. doc secured as soon as possible after we move. I have some places in mind, but it'll sting a helluva lot less with insurance, of course.
More soon.
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