{"id":3643,"date":"2011-07-27T02:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T02:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3643"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:57","slug":"renting-out-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3643","title":{"rendered":"Renting Out the House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So the last time I wrote, I mentioned how I had woken up early this past Friday morning and couldn\u2019t fall back to sleep because I had all these questions about how things were going to work out.\u00a0 We were getting ready to have a moving sale and hoping to vacate our house and yet we had no lease written up \u2026 much less a family lined up to rent our place!\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t even sure how to go about finding a renter \u2026 or how long it might take.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my last post, I also mentioned our next door neighbors, Jessica and Rob, whose house had burned the previous Sunday.\u00a0 Friday evening, while we were in the midst of figuring out what furniture and other items would be going into our sale and what the price tags should be, we noticed that Jessica and Rob and their three little girls were at their house doing a bit of yard maintenance.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We popped over to see how they were doing and they have obviously been through a lot of stress.\u00a0 They had spent five days in a small hotel room together and were just longing for everything to be back to normal.\u00a0 But the best estimates put reconstruction of their house at six to eight months!<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When conversation turned to their next moves, they said the insurance was going to pay for them to find a house or apartment temporarily, but the rental market was already tight and they were looking for a very specific place:\u00a0 big enough for their family, furnished, in the same school district, close enough to the burned house so that Rob could help with the reconstruction, available immediately, and willing to be rented on a three month lease followed by month to month after that!<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes God has to make things very obvious for the light bulb to go off in my head \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We decided that we wouldn\u2019t put some of our furniture in the sale the next morning and that Jessica would call her insurance company and see if arrangements could be made.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looks like it&#8217;s going to work out.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/008-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Our first moving sale.\u00a0 Another one planned for this coming Saturday.\u00a0 Oh joy!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/038-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hopefully Jessica and Rob will be able to move into our house.\u00a0 Their kittens have already moved to our back yard.\u00a0 The kids are loving it!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/039-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">We sold The Princess&#039; 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