MOVING DAY APPROACHES

Well we finally found a house which is fabulous! (Well we hope it is anyway)

Move in day is this weekend the 14th Aug, yipeeeeeee.

Truly one extreme to the other is what we are acheiving with the new house.

Right now we live in a very small, cant swing a cat in it one bedroom house and the new one has so many rooms in it we wont know what to do with ourselves. Especially since we dont have any furniture!!!

A deal was struck with the landlord, his sister owns the house but she lives in the US. They want to get someone to rent the house that will take care of it. They dont really care all that much about the rent, they just want to make sure its looked after and maintained. WE CAN DO THAT!

Here there is a big problem with people renting a house and then leaving, but taking everything including the kitchen sink!! They leave the house a ruin. So a good tenant that will care for the house is sort after.

Sooooo instead of paying an astronomic amount in rent which would normally be charged for a house this size we are getting it for an awesome price, not much more than we are paying now!!

The house has two bathrooms although when we looked at the house the second one had not been finished. They build houses in stages here as money allows, so the house is not new, but parts of it are (new mexican standards, not nz standards). The bathroom has walls and a floor with pipes sticking out of the walls where the fixtures will be. We negotiated with the landlord and he has agreed to do all the work to finish the bathroom ready for us to move into! Yahoooooo.

This week is thus going to be very busy, trying to pack, having to clean two houses, trying to get ou time in, Dave has a public talk and then we have to go to Mexico City a day after we move in so we have to pack for that too. No time for mischeif in there!! There is a time for everything though, isnt there?!

So folks, thats me this week, hope you are all well, would love to hear from you all!