Renting Out the House

So the last time I wrote, I mentioned how I had woken up early this past Friday morning and couldn’t fall back to sleep because I had all these questions about how things were going to work out.  We were getting ready to have a moving sale and hoping to vacate our house and yet we had no lease written up … much less a family lined up to rent our place!  I wasn’t even sure how to go about finding a renter … or how long it might take.

In my last post, I also mentioned our next door neighbors, Jessica and Rob, whose house had burned the previous Sunday.  Friday evening, while we were in the midst of figuring out what furniture and other items would be going into our sale and what the price tags should be, we noticed that Jessica and Rob and their three little girls were at their house doing a bit of yard maintenance.

We popped over to see how they were doing and they have obviously been through a lot of stress.  They had spent five days in a small hotel room together and were just longing for everything to be back to normal.  But the best estimates put reconstruction of their house at six to eight months!

When conversation turned to their next moves, they said the insurance was going to pay for them to find a house or apartment temporarily, but the rental market was already tight and they were looking for a very specific place:  big enough for their family, furnished, in the same school district, close enough to the burned house so that Rob could help with the reconstruction, available immediately, and willing to be rented on a three month lease followed by month to month after that!

Sometimes God has to make things very obvious for the light bulb to go off in my head …

We decided that we wouldn’t put some of our furniture in the sale the next morning and that Jessica would call her insurance company and see if arrangements could be made.

Looks like it's going to work out.  I'll keep you posted.

Our first moving sale.  Another one planned for this coming Saturday.  Oh joy!

Hopefully Jessica and Rob will be able to move into our house.  Their kittens have already moved to our back yard.  The kids are loving it!

We sold The Princess' bed, so she's on an air mattress for the time being.  Ida and Dats are on the air mattress tonight because their room is such a mess as Melissa is sorting through their possessions.  The kids are handling it all very well.