To our great relief, today a very nice couple came to see the apartment and snapped it up immediately. Whew! I was starting to get really worried. I love this apartment so much that I was sure it would get rented very fast. But it sat on the market for just over two weeks, and I was starting to panic a little.
The new tenants want to be in as fast as possible, so we might end up handing off the keys to them by hand once we've packed everything out and cleaned up after ourselves. Fine by me; I'm willing to help them as much as I can. I certainly owe them a favor for letting us out of the lease.
So that's a big worry off my chest. The to-do list is getting smaller:
- Arrange for a certain woman to clean the apartment, if she can. If I can't get her, we'll just have to do it ourselves.
- Back up important data on Delilah, whose gradual decline (which started as soon as she went out of warranty) is accelerating.
- Pack.
The hard part, of course, is not the doing; it's the planning. Putting things in boxes isn't hard; figuring out what things to put in which boxes (and how many boxes of which type one needs) is.
senji says:
I feel your pain; at least partly because it's currently my pain as well...
Good luck!