Rented!?

I'll try to keep a long story short. We think we've rented our place. Nothing is signed but we have a deposit cheque and a cheque for the first rent payment.

The guy renting it currently lives in our building. He is moving down from the sixth floor to our unit as the unit he is currently renting is "for sale" (now that is probably a story related to the economy).

He is, however, looking for a place to buy and may break the lease. In our lease he must give us 60 days notice so we should be able to fill it while he is still leasing the unit. He can't afford our place on his teacher's salary and hasn't found anything in a year so he may stay for the entire year he has signed on for.

He wants to take over on December 15th! We leave on the 14th. This is awesome. So although we went down a hundred bucks on his monthly payment he is giving us an extra half month that we weren't expecting and is interested in some of our furniture. We will find out how much of it he (or, interestingly his sister slash realtor) wants in the next few days.

Swell had a good cry as she said goodbye to our couch and her sheep chairs.

We also found out today that we are departing Portland, Oregon for our new home on January 12th at 6 pm.

Its getting close!

We're happy to have found a tenant and really looking forward to our time on the road (3380.38 miles) and with our families.