Over the past week I experienced what most of you probably know in you own life-I have way too much stuff!!! I decided since I was to be gone for at least 6 months that I needed to rent out my house. At first I was going to only make it a 6 month furnished rental then friends generously offered me their guest suite in their beautiful home in Montclair for as long as I wished to stay. So after some consideration I decided the better option was to lease my house out unfurnished for one year. Keep your life options open was my moto.
I quickly found a wonderful couple, Clarissa and Lisa along with their Jack Russell Terrier and cat to lease the house. Now for the hard part getting my house packed up and put into storage. Friends suggested the POD method. Seemed reasonable to me. Now for those of you that don't know the design of my home it is on a hill and there are 26 stairs into the front door. In addition it was decided I would move my bedroom furniture and my clothes to my new temporary home in Montclair so that when I came back it would be ready for me. That house had over 30 stairs. Needless to say this move out made a stair master routine look tame.
At this point I must call out three incredibly generous friends (Ted, Francois and Robert). Between the three of them we got what seemed to be this monumental task complete. So for what seemed like an eternity I packed boxes and over last weekend the big move out began. I'm going to give all of you some advice. Cull the herd!! At one point in my life my father said to me "every asset is a liability", and after about the hundredth trip up and down my stairs I understood what he meant.
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