The Move - Good news, and not so good news

traciyork (75)Silver Witchin Silver Bloggers • 3 months ago

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First, my big question to my US Hive friends - how do you turn your liquid $HIVE/$HBD into dollars? I used to have a BinanceUS account, but ditched it ages ago when they did that shady thing (which of course, now I can't remember the specifics of...lol), and didn't worry about it since they didn't even list Hive. I did get a suggestion on Discord (from the lovely @justclickindiva) that I might be able to use Coinbase (not sure if I have an account there yet/still) to sell BTC for cash (once I convert my Hive to BTC), and I'm going to check that out in a bit. But while I'm still trying to figure this out, any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

But now, for the bestest of the good news I mentioned in my title - WE FOUND A PLACE! And not even the place I mentioned in my last post, but it is owned by the same person who showed us that first one. Turns out, her partner in her company (she's a realtor) really didn't like the fact that we have a couple of cats, so he vetoed our application (after $135 in fees to apply). But she felt so bad about our situation that she offered to rent us a different place that she owns herself, and turns out it's a much better fit for us.

I'll talk more about it in future posts (once we've gotten through this hellacious moving process), but for the moment, it's a big weight off our shoulders that we have some place to go. Especially since, after many days of having to vacate our place (including our aforementioned cats and our dog) for hours at a time so that prospective buyers could wander through, our current landlady got a firm offer on her property. Now comes the panic that our new place isn't available until September 1st, and we need to be out of here by... yep, September 1st.

Which brings me to a bit more not so good news. In order to make this move a reality, we need to come up with a minimum of $4,000 dollars (first months rent, moving costs, etc). Cashing out my $HBD and a few weeks of powering down some Hive will get us about halfway there, and we're working on figuring out how to raise the rest (selling stuff, etc). I'd been holding out hope that maybe we wouldn't have to touch my Hive, but looks like it might be the thing that makes it possible. And once in our new place (with our new family configuration - our daughters are moving elsewhere, and our son is staying with us), I'll have tons of content and more time to share here, so I can build my stack back up. I did move the Hive earmarked for #HivePUD (Hive Power Up Day) prizes into my savings account, so I can distribute it once I have time to go through everything.

In the meantime though, again if anyone can suggest a relatively easy (because my brain is beyond melted at this point) way of converting my crypto to cash, I'm all ears. And I'm wicked looking forward to catching up with everything around the Hivesphere!

Oh, and almost forgot to mention - no, the picture in my thumbnail isn't our current packing process (I wish it was that neat and organized...lmao!). Turns out Canva now has a nifty AI image generator (called Magic Media) that I used to create the image.

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