Unemployed - Week 1 Getting the House Ready

A couple of friends have emailed this week to ask how it's going.  "How does it feel not going to work this week and what have you been up to?"

Cleaning and purging the house (I know I sound like a broken record-sorry).  Very exciting and glamorous - NOT!  Getting the house ready for the new renters is basically the same as getting it ready to sell.

We must purge all of our personal stuff except the small amount of items we will put in storage and the even smaller amount of items we will take with us on s/v Honey Ryder.

There is basic cleaning and then there is cleaning because company is coming and finally there is moving out/selling the house clean and fixing up.  After living here 17 yrs.....well...gross.  Additionally we have been scanning important personal, tax and financial records and putting them in Dropbox.  If you are not using Dropbox for cyber storage of documents, we highly recommend it.  Tom has been working with a management company to turn over management of our rental houses (6 of them).  This will be a huge change for us, as we have always managed those ourselves - mainly Tom.  But we like what we have seen so far in dealing with them.  They seem to be good peeps that know what they are doing.  Tech items is another area taking up time - updating and pulling data off old home PC, updating mini laptop and laptop, getting a new laptop for Tom, new emails, contacting all the companies we deal with to let them know our new emails (this takes tons of time), etc...Tom is still working as well during all of this. 
So there you have it.