Moving?

We've had a pretty productive weekend. Instead of going down to Girdwood for the Forest Fair, we decided to tackle the boxes in our room which have been there since we moved in a year ago.

We started with 14 unpacked boxes in our room. I think there are about 4 left which have not been sorted into: keep, donate, trash. The "keep" stuff is being further sorted into: storage & use now. We brought several large garbage bags full of stuff to the thrift store yesterday. We've also come up with lots of "trash" to get rid of.

We've also been putting some thought into where we'll be residing this coming year. Our 12-month lease is up on August 1. Our landlords want either a renewed 12-month lease or for us to find some place else to live.

We've checked out some rentals in Eagle River as well as some houses for sale. We found one today that is for sale and is in our price range. The trick would be to work with the home equity in our Virginia house to come up with a down payment here. Either that, or refinance the Virginia house with a conventional loan so we could use our VA-loan on this Alaska house.

Our plan is to call a lending agent tomorrow to see what she can work up for us. I'll keep you posted.