Thursday, Friday, joy abounds

Thursday evening brought a lovely holiday surprise  

My great favorite and thank you so much, dear giver. 

On Friday, after many reminders, to make sure I would be present, at home, in person, with all the documents, fobs, everything, car emptied, all diamond rings removed from under the seats, Buyer David showed up bang on time. 

At first I saw him driving right past the house.  This routinely happens the first time anyone visits, because instead of the street being numbered odd one side, even the other, the quirky builders numbered the housed sequentially. 

Sooo people think they are looking at the side they want and suddenly they aren't. Number 65 is next door to 66 etc.   It's baffling to newcomers.

Anyway I talked him in, and it went very smoothly. All the paperwork was fine, and when it came to title signing, where any mistake voids the title, he filled out everything except my signature. Many, many papers to sign, I've sold a house with less paperwork. 

The offer was considerably higher than their estimate, and much higher than the other offers. This was clearly a good time to sell a good car. In the middle of it I even got a text from a neighbor who'd seen the company car, to make me an offer. Too late! I wouldn't sell to a friend anyway, it's a business transaction I'd rather not mix with friendship.

So now it's out front, plateless, the plates now in the house, the car not my property. I'm carfree and carefree. Check deposited, and now there's funds for ride services. One hour start to finish.

Then there was clerical work, to cancel the auto insurance and set up a refund, cancel AAA, find they won't refund because I should have canceled before November 1, arghgh, inform the HOA of the situation so nobody reports it as an abandoned car, and they were fine. 

No more worrying about tire pressure, nonstarting battery, weird alerts, moving in snow to let the plow in, it's lovely. 

Happy day everyone, I hope you can give up a burden of any kind, it's great.