Logistics of moving across the country

[lawmom]

I didn't make it clear, I guess, that we would have set up a temp rental until we found a long term rental, but there's no need now, as we have a place all ready for us.

[PenguinMA]

You go, girl!
Mary in Massachusetts

[Steve Hazzard]

Originally Posted by nancy thereader

I have seen the "no housing" situation go bad very quickly which usually resulted in me hauling the shipper's goods back to the point of origin

Wow. Has that ever happened ; have you ever moved someone's furniture all the way back to say, New York, from New Mexico?

I've moved household goods from one coast to the other and back, but not necessarily in one continuous shipment. I once was hauling a shipment that loaded out of Buffalo, NY and delivered to Las Vegas, NV. The customer left Buffalo several days after I loaded her goods. I had picked up other shipments between Buffalo and Las Vegas. When I was about 200 miles from Vegas, I received notice from my dispatcher that the woman with the Las Vegas shipment had died as a result of a heart attack when she was changing planes in Chicago! Her shipment never came off my trailer and was returned to Buffalo two weeks latter. In my 12 years of hauling for United Van Lines, I've had some very "interesting" shipments! One of the most bizarre shipments, was the guy who bought a house sight unseen, only to discover that the house was condemned property!

[skprdh]

I am getting ready to do the same thing. Have a new job at WSMR and they are going to get me a sponsor to work with which sounds great. I am still going to fly out for a few days at least, rent a car, and see what I like and where I'm going to live at least for 6 months. I think it would be even scarier to just start out without a home to go to. Even if you spend more than planned, I think it would be worth it for the peace of mind.

[nancy thereader]

One of the most bizarre shipments, was the guy who bought a house sight unseen, only to discover that the house was condemned

I can't imagine buying a house unseen ......

[Steve Hazzard]

Originally Posted by nancy thereader

One of the most bizarre shipments, was the guy who bought a house sight unseen, only to discover that the house was condemned

I can't imagine buying a house unseen ......

Buying property sight unseen is more prevalent than you could imagine! One of the current real estate scams is buying property based upon phony on line profiles! As P.T. Barnum, the great showman of the 19th century said, "There's a sucker born every minute"! I would update that to a sucker born every millisecond!

[cory_larousse]

i put everything i owned in my toyota tercel (and got rid of anything that didn't fit). it was late december 2004 and i had never laid eyes on las cruces, picked it off the internet based on NMSU's art department. it was 2 degrees when i left maine, it was about 40 when i arrived in LC. i camped in my tent at that goofy "state park" whatever it's called in Radium Springs. it took me less than 2 weeks to find suitable housing. sometimes that strategy works, sometimes it doesn't. maybe not with kids in august.

[lawmom]

Wow, you have guts to have done that, Cory. I'm thinking that won't work in our situation though.

The house we thought we had fell through (wife told us we could have it, husband rented it to someone else without telling her.)

So, we're talking with another couple about renting their home, and I sure hope it comes through!!!! It is in Sonoma Ranch, and in a nice part of it.