The lawyers are telling us we should be closing on our investment property on Monday or Tuesday next week. We have mapped out our project plan for the work we need to do ourselves once we take ownership. We have a lot to do. We will probably have to work solid for two weeks.
Somewhere in between we’ll have to move our stuff for the boat to the shipping depot. We’ve filled out the online forms for this and are awaiting contact from the shipping company so we can arrange finer details.
In the meantime we’ve somehow kept ourselves incredibly busy. I’ve managed to burn 40-50 DVDs from our old tapes and am still working my way through the remainder. I started with the oldest equipment and will end with our current camera. The thinking being that if I run out of time I won’t need my conversion equipment aboard the boat to finish off the tapes for the camera we’re currently using.
I’ve also learned to enjoy looking for offers in the supermarkets. Not only are we learning to live on a budget, the recent market turmoil is causing us to look even closer at our spending. It’s amazing the difference in cost of a meal if one pays attention to what’s currently being discounted by the supermarkets.
We’re also lining up our private boat insurance for when we leave the CatCo fleet in November. Thanks to my recent trip across the Atlantic I now qualify for the Jackline insurance which is very well recommended. Unfortunately it seems we can’t get covered for theft in Colombia at the moment. Maybe it will change before we get there as we hear the Colombian Coast Guard has made their waters very safe. However, we may have to adjust our plans. One option would be to stay in Trinidad for five months during the next hurricane season and see if we can earn some remote income to make up for recent losses. No decisions on this needed just yet.
We’ve decided to get away from the current motel for a couple of days and visit the Poconos. The motels there are very cheap mid-week. The weather looks fairly nice so we’ll be able to get out and decompress a little. We may well be back in this motel for the weekend in preparation for closing.
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