Friday 6 July 2012 - House sale completed
I forgot to say in my last post that the house sale was completed - just two days after exchange of contracts! The money is sitting in my UK account so I need to pay off my UK debts before transferring the remainder over to the US. Unfortunately, we bought our house at the market peak at the end of 2006 and, though the market had recovered a bit, we certainly made a loss on this house, so the profit we had was from the previous houses minus the loss on this house. What with the expenditure of coming here, that fund will be somewhat depleted too by the time it's transferred over here.
Never mind, at least now we're over the worst of it. Most of what's to come is going to be daily living expenditure and thus somewhat more stable than the turmoil of the last few months with buying, shipping, deposits, and everything else we've had to pay for. Of course, we also now only have house rental to pay, rather than a mortgage as well - a good $1700 difference.
The next big expenditure might be a car, but we'll only do that if the wife gets a job. We're not talking a brand new car but a second hand one, maybe around $5-10k, maybe a more fuel efficient "normal" car compared to the people carrier we have now. A convertible would be nice but let's take things one step at a time!
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