I'm heading back to the states for a bit, my mom's health is not so great. Meanwhile the thought of selling everything is overwhelming. The thought of how does one sell EVERYTHING and still live until take off?
How do you do it? What do you suggest?
Thanks so much in advance!
Jen
We once sold most of what we had, when we left DR in 2005. It actually didn't take more than a few days before everything was gone. I sold our mattress to a colleague of mine and agreed with him to come pick it up the same day we would leave the country.
Funny story: the apartment where we lived was mine and I hadn't sold it yet. The last two items left in the apartment were two (big) couches. I sold them to a friend (dominican) who asked me if he could pay it later, while he didn't have the money. No problem, but I told him, make sure you pick up the couched right away.
A month later I sell the apartment (I was already in Holland). Before closing the deal I tell the guy who bought the couches: make sure you pick them up this week, I am selling the apartment. A few weeks later, the realtor calls me that the new owner of the apartment wants these big couches out of the way, when are they finally picking them up. I'm calling the guy again, he tells me, actually I am not going to have the money, so I better don't buy them......WHAT???!!!
I tell my brother in law to please remove those couches from the apartment and to do whatever he likes with it. When he gets their a few days later: no couches. The new owner says the real estate agent removed them. When I call the real estate agent he tells me 'his socio' sold the couches to some family in 'el campo'. Actually I couldn't blame him for solving the problem, but no chance he would give me (part of the) the money. When I came back to DR in 2010 I bumped into him somewhere. I didn't bring up the couches, but I wonder if he felt embarrassed (I guess not).