First Floor
LR (Nikki’s office Area)
Dining Room (Rich and our) Office area
Family Room (Both families – space – but stronghold of Rich)
Kitchen (Joint)
Breakfast Nook (Joint)
Half Bath (Joint)
Three Stairs Up
Master Bedroom (Rich and ours)
Master Bath (Rich and ours)
Bedroom (Sewing Room)
Bedroom (Maury’s and Nikki’s)
Bath (Maury and Nikki’s)
Downstairs (10 stairs)
Den (Extra bedroom – or stronghold of Maury’s den/family
room)
Bedroom (1-2 girls bedroom)
Bedroom (1-2 girls bedroom)
Laundry
Crawl Space
All rooms – LARGE … House built in 1984
The situation is that we spent Thanksgiving with Rich’s
mother, brother, Bud and Pat
Pat turns out to be an exceptionally nice woman. She’s worldly, takes good care (a little
overweight), but she’s independent and smart.
She had two short marriages no children … She’s about 70. She used to move around the country working
as a manager for Veteran’s Affairs. When
she bought this place it was purchased (1992) for her, her mother and father,
and a friend from church. Since then Pat
is still here but the other three have died and the place is too big. Pat’s mother was the last to pass in
March. It is obviously too big for her
now. 2010 values were like $285,000 –
304,000 with $7500 taxes. Good housing
market it was up to about $500,000. Pat
is looking to sell. She already has a
place in Orlando Florida. If she had it
her way she would move by March. Pat is
Rich’s Mom’s best friend. Rich’s Mom and
Mary, Pat’s half-sister was best friends from childhood (70 years ago) before
Pat knew Rich’s mother. It is obviously
too big for Rich and I, but if we went in with the double family we could make
good use of the space, probably be paying no more than we both are now. It would be interesting too if she could do
it rent to own. She had water damage
downstairs – sump pump was electrical and water (1”) had come in when
electricity was down. She plans to redo floor prior to selling.
Problem is the house is not ready to sell. There is the issue of basement floors (NOOO
smells), but in the process of all these deaths and being a caretaker for
another estate, she has about 3-4 households of furniture “STUFF” she’s trying
to deal with. She’s clearly
overwhelmed. I was talking to Thom about
it last night … and we told him we had volunteered after the first of the year
to start helping her. She’s been
processing little pieces but then gets overly tired. I told Thom I couldn’t move the big stuff,
but could help sort and such – anything from a sitting down position. Then I told him that I had hoped to ask Maury
to come over periodically to move things, and that I thought she would tip him
for that.
Thom said he could move things. And, I said how? You live in the DC area. Then Thom said that he has 80 days paid leave
and that 60 days might transfer forward, but he will lose 20 days because he
can’t carry more than 60. So, he said
that he’s going to be discharged in March and that he’s basically trying to
figure out his time. He is interested in
coming down and exchanging work for room/bath for the interim time. There are several options there. His chief goal is to be in Japan for a job he’s
pretty sure of getting that would start in October 2013. He says that it is doing the same work he did
before. He said that the job would pay I
believe like $90,000 and he’d be at a E12 rate, which is REALLY high up for a
Sergeant. I think the highest that the
numbers go is E15, and then there’s some other categories.
The thing is he has to do something between now and then. The next part of his options is that in about
March when he’s released he can get a job he would be interested in for the
interim. The problem with the job is
that he’d get it, but then be put at like an E9 level. He says that would jeopardize him getting the
bigger bucks then when he went to Japan.
I’m not sure if that’s all good information like did I mess it up, but I
think that’s what he was saying.
Ok, this is a mess ... we're really out of sequence. This entry had originally been written to share with Maury and Nikki. So, we aren't even up to this part in the narrative. Just that we had written this part before Maury stopped by on Sunday for lunch. So we're going to put it in now because it has a lot of good information. I think the next entry though will fill in the middle before we got to this part - asking Maury and Nikki to consider if this ever became an option to move in with us, because without them, having a five bedroom house would make no sense.
So, to be continued.
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