Boat for sale!

So, I've listed the boat finally... she's on Craigslist for $18,500 currently. I've gotten a gratifying amount of interest so far, averaging out to one call or e-mail about her a day, but I'm trying not to let that make me overly optimistic. There is a lot of tire-kicking that goes on in the used boat market, and I won't be at all surprised if we don't get a serious offer until next spring (the height of the boat selling season; sailing is a harder sell around here with pouring rain and raging winds in the fall and winter). Still, I hadn't really expected anything for a few weeks, so it's good that there is a level of interest.

It's had me thinking much more about what exactly will happen if we do manage to sell her in the near-term. We're already planning out Mandy's conference schedule for next year, and we're both focusing on expanding business this winter. The ideal situation might be to sell Insegrevious, throw our stuff into storage, and go hopping around the West Coast looking for a replacement, but that might be difficult to pull off. So I have been looking at small, cheap apartments here in town to serve as a sort of homebase during the looking/buying process.

There are a fair number in a reasonable price range (although I haven't actually gone to look at them; maybe they are disgusting) but the big problem is that almost all of them want a one-year term. I certainly don't want to still be stuck up here in a lease next fall... if we are actively searching with cash in hand, I would expect to buy something next summer and have time to get it up here (if it's not already in the area) or to move to wherever it is, before bad weather sets in.

It's very hard to pre-determine what the right solution will be, because different things make sense in different time frames. If in fact we don't manage to sell until next spring or summer, a one-year lease might not be a bad thing... we could keep working through next winter here and be all ready to go out and get the replacement the following spring, coinciding with the lease expiring. But for a shorter-term solution, I am still at a loss, and I dislike being without a plan of some sort.