First off, a flood.  Literally, a flood. We agreed on a house rental today that will start tomorrow, and tonight was to be our last night in our short-term rental. When we got back to the condo, we were greeted by water gushing into the unit from the one above. …

Day 6 and still nowhere to live. We’ve been extending our hotel room one night at a time, but we decided not to extend again because we thought we might be getting close to having a rental house.   Just heard back from the one we were interested in, and its…

It sounded brilliant on paper. Sell the house in Virginia, show up here to rent a house. No, we don’t have a house yet. No problem, right?! We’d seen that inventory was a little thin for the type of house we wanted, but it supposedly opens up some in the…

It’s official, we’re here! After years of discussing something  like this and deciding on Jan 1 that we were going to go for it, it’s great to finally arrive. It was a long, long day, with a 3:20 am wake-up call and a 6 am flight out of Dulles.  A…