We’ve moved. Again.

Pre move in cleaning.

Seems not too long ago that we moved into a rented apartment in Malta, NY. Actually its been a year, and now that the lease is up, I chose not to renew.

Might have been a lot more convenient and cheaper to just stay put, but I had a run in with property management regarding maintenance and communication with new staff. Will not and dont have to put up with it. Thats me, and it will happen again in my next rental. I can see it coming… oh no… so what I am to do?

Me and the van at our new digs. Nope its not going to fit in the garage.

Hope for the best….

This time, I found a take over lease situation in Wilton, NY. This lease is until end April 18, then I can have the option of looking for a new place, or quit my job and move back to PT. Its my plan to leave my job in summer anyway, cos I miss my life in PT so much. So anyway, whatever, this short term rental arrangement suits me just fine.

Have enough setup to resume apartment living within 48hrs.

Well, but for takeover lease, the  apartment is in the state as the guy left it. Dirty and with some marks on the walls. We have to do a lot of cleaning, which we did a full Saturday worth.

Moving H/P Yeli and remaining stuff.

Sunday was a better day for renting a Uhual van anyway. I guess too many people try to move on Saturday too, and vans were not available for enough time to run 2 trips. So Sunday it is, and a Uhaul dealer that operates on Sunday is only 1 mile from our new apartment!

Snow season started as we moved the last load.

Its a good thing that our IKEA furniture is very easily portable in 2 Uhual van loads. Actually we could do just the long and bulky items in 1 van load and run 10 car loads with Scootz slowly over the next 3 weeks, if we really wanted to. Yes, we had a luxurious 3 weeks overlap. 🙂 Cost us a unfair bit, but it is what it is. I am not going to break the lease agreement and get into another spat.

Yay. Place for H/P Yelli in the garage.

We needed 2 weekends after moving to clean up the old digs nicely anyway. We didnt have to rush, so cleaning was actually quite therapeutic. Who would have thot.

The last thing we moved is the 12ft kayak. It was just too long for the van, and too difficult to lift it over the roof of a tall van, so Scootz it is. And Scootz will be the one to carry that H/P Yeli all of 3000miles back to PT in summer … We will have to tie down better in that trip… Things we learn… shouldnt have shipped Yeli over here to begin with…

Well, we made it and we are done before the bad pre Christmas snow storm. Phew!