I daily check Craig's List for potential renters of our house here. It is very special and will require just the right tenant. It is at the top end of the rental market and I want at least a 2 year lease, preferably 3 year. I may even consider a lease with option to buy, but it still has to be leased for 3 years due to the terms of my mortgage. I know the perfect person or family is out there.
I would like to start having the estate sale at the end of this week. There is just so much it is overwhelming. There are items I definitely want to take with me when I get on the plane and head south; there are items that I want to put into storage so that I can return and ship them down once we have obtained permanent residency; and, finally, there are things that need to go to a new home. It is just ridiculous how much stuff you accumulate over 10 years when you live in a 3000 sf house! Ridiculous, I say.
I am about to sign a two year lease on an amazing property in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye. It is a 5 minute walk to the beach! It has three bedrooms and 2 baths. My son insisted on 2 bathrooms if he is to be expected to share with two females. Reasonable request.
I have so many little projects in the works, that keeping up with all of it reminds me of my executive secretary days. Projects consists of Goats, Chickens, A Garden Center, A Sewing/Small Manufacturing Business, plus a ton of other things swiriling around in my head. There are emails and forms to BAHA - The Belize Agricultural Health Association (taking the pets is pretty straightforward and simple). Importing African/Nigerian Dwarf goats, not so simple. Since the cute little guys have never been in the country of Belize, a Risk Analysis will need to be done. That could involve having a Minister come to the US to visit the farm of the breeder. Farm animals (basically any animal other than a cat or a dog) have to be quarantined, but that is fairly simple, as well. The quarantine takes place on the importers property where the animals will be housed and there are regular inspections for the duration of the quarantine period.
In anticipation of approval by BAHA, I placed reservations on a few kids that are being born about now from a farm in Yakima, Washington. This process is rather involved, but again, fairly straightforward if you know what you're doing; emphasis on if you know what you're doing. So, I found several breeders online, read all about them and settled on the farm in Yakima. They post a breeding schedule. Each doe has a page dedicated to her history. There are several pictures showing her conformation, closeup pictures of her udder, a great strengths and weaknesses chart, and a history of her kidding and the milking capabilities of all the does in her lineage. Then there are the same characteristics and pictures of the buck used for the breeding. There is an anticipated kidding date. I was able to study all of these and come up with several breedings that I thought would produce good offspring. I placed reservations on 7 or 8 kids, mostly doelings and a couple of bucklings. I have started checking the website every day. In the past week, 23 kids have arrived and there are pictures of the babies when they are just hours old. The picture says which kids are for sale and how much. Depending on the timing of your reservation, you are in 1st to 3rd position for a particular kid from a particular breeding. Once the kids arrive, you have 4 days to send a deposit. The balance is paid when you take delivery of the kid. If you do not, for any reason, take delivery of the kid, you lose your deposit. So far only one of my reserved breedings has kidded and I wanted a doeling and it was a single delivery of a buckling, so I am going to pass.
The kids should be ready to be delivered about the time I'll be headed to Belize, so I'm am just trusting that all paperwork and inspections with BAHA and so forth will be successful and timely and we can all go at the same time. Look at those blue eyes! In the meantime, I get to check on babies every day, and it's rather exciting.
There were several properties that we were close to obtaining and for whatever reason it didn't happen. Finally I just decided to rent a place on the island and will worry about buying something after we are there and can actually sit across the table from the seller and negotiate a deal.
Two examples of making it happen and letting it happen. Making the goat thing happen, letting the real estate deal happen.
So much to to tell. Saving it for another day.
I am going to enjoy this hope you keep it up.excited for you!
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