Twists, Turns, and Unexpected Characters

Chronicles of Our Desert Homestead–Ch. 2

☕️ Coffee With Jaimee
7 min readAug 29, 2023
Our (new) home and shop, street view.

This post is about a few characters and some surprises that have unfolded before and after closing on “The Desert Homestead”

If you haven’t read Chapter 1, do it! It’ll give you a little more context.

With our office warehouse lease renewal date coming in fast (Aug 31) we were eager to close by July 31. We were ready to close by the second week of July, but the sellers needed more time.

I want to introduce some of the characters in our real-life story, along with some surprises that each has brought to the saga.

Jim and Jan

Jim and Jan are the sellers (described a little more in my last post.)

Knowing the situation with Jim and Jan’s health, age, and the volume of accumulated stuff inside and outside the property, we had a pretty good sense that there was no way everything was going to come together in six weeks.

We let our realtor know we were willing to help throughout July–anything we could do to help pack things up, load, list things online, etc. But there was no response on the seller’s side to any of our offers to help. So we figured that everyone must be keeping it business and not making it personal. We were advised…

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