I'm bumping this back to the top because life has been CRAZY for the last 2 months. It's been an unbelievable ride.
1. After quite a bit of negotiation with the prospective buyers, lots of inspections, countless e-mails and phone calls, we closed on the building this past Thursday. Good and bad. Good from a business standpoint, but bad for me. I was able to negotiate into the closing a deal to stay in my "space" for 45 day and then $50/day after that. This gives me a little bit of time to begin packing up everything and get ready to move.
Yep, move.
2. I made an offer on a commercial building and I have the sales contract in my hand to sign over the weekend. Sounds good right? A nice 4300sq-ft cinder block building with offices, bathroom, kitchenette, ceiling heights sufficient for my lift, safe location, inexpensive taxes and darn near "move-in ready'. Everything was going smoothly and we thought it would be a quick and easy purchase.
Nope, life got in the way.
My fiancée has had a bit of a cough for the last few weeks that we chalked up to allergies. She has felt fine other than the cough, but because she is considered "high-risk", we decided to have her tested for Covid-19. Guess what, she tested positive and received the results last Friday. It's amazing how quickly life goes from elation to despair in one phone call. What sucks is this is the third time for her getting bad news. 12 years ago after a mammogram they noticed a lump. That was removed and turned out to not be of any concern. 6 years ago, she was diagnosed with Stage 3 brain cancer. After a full barrage of radiation and a horrible year of chemotherapy, she's been in remission since. NOW THIS! Seriously, it's unbelievable that it happened to her. We are in the second week of her quarantine and her cough is getting better. Other than the cough, she has no symptoms, no fever and good pulse/ox readings. We just need to ride-out another week and she should be good. Luckily I tested negative, but having to stay at home, means I can't do anything but work around here and talk to people on the phone.
Since PA has shut down all new real estate transactions, I can't even schedule inspections on the new building for several more weeks. It looked like it was going to work out, but because the state won't allow certain businesses to open, it going to be a very tight timeline.
On a lighter and brighter note, I was able to sell my entire vintage jetski collection and the '68 Mustang convertible. Everything was going great and looked very positive until she got the test results. As long as she continues feeling better, we will move forward with the new building purchase. If she shows any other symptoms or has health issues, everything else be damned and I'll deal with real estate and cars at a later date.
Shes doing alright, but anyone who prays, I could use a little help sent her way. She's a fighter, has been through worse than this, but this damn disease is a SOB or at least can be when things go downhill.
Will keep everyone posted.