I am on week three of knowing we have orders....we had a lovely 8 month notice on moving because my husband is deployed.
So far I have learned that we must have all dental work cared for now. That meant I had something like 15 fillings ( I had put off the dentist for several years after some pricey dental work went south) in 24 hours. I have to go to an oral surgeon and have another visit for a root canal next week, too! I had not anticipated the cost of this when I said yes to Japan. A lot of people don't get choices, they just get told they are going. I'm thankful for the advanced notice I had, but the perhaps several thousand out of pocket to get to the point I need to have dental clearance has bothered me.
I've been trying to decide to try to sell our home or keep it. It's a challenge. The market is awful where we live, it's as if the housing collapse just now made it here. We can carry our mortgage if we need to, so that's a blessing. But I don't want to carry it for 3 years. We have rented our home out in the past with extreme success, but the rental market is rather bad here as well. So it appears we might take a monthly loss, which stinks!
Moving to Okinawa, Japan has one advantage...in the Marine Corps we are not able to take our household furniture. They supply that for the duration of our stay. So we ::might:: try to sell our home mainly furnished. After 3 years in storage, plus the monthly loss a rental would cost us, it's not a bad deal for us. Then we could save and get all new things when we return!
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