Sold

The sale of my house has now become unconditional and will settle on Monday August 4th.

My offer on the view in Docklands has been accepted and should settle on Friday 18th August - always assuming I can find a way to transfer the 10% deposit. My daily limit is $5000 and I suspect the estate agent will not be pleased if I send the deposit in $5000 lots over several days!

The Ballarat Community Care Centre is coming this morning to cherry pick their way through my furniture. Once I know what I've got left, I'll organise a skip. Freyja and Simon are coming next weekend to help fill the skip and to take away things that are going to other places. Then on the following Monday people from the storage facility are coming to take away things that are going to Docklands with me. Then I have a week to clean the house.

The cats and I will decamp back to Hill House until I can arrange to get my stuff moved to the new place.

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If you want to transfer money somewhere and it is considerably above your daily limit, ring your bank just after 8am when the phones open and there isn't much of a wait. Discuss it with someone who will put you through to the bank's safety people. These people will put the fear of Osiris in you that a nefarious scammer is trying to defraud you of all your money. Then they will raise your daily limit. You then, in fear and trembling, transfer the money and then immediately reduce the daily limit to its original amount.

Seems to have worked. I hope the deposit has in fact gone to its intended recipient. It would be annoying and inconvenient if it has wandered off to some tropical island in an unnoticed part of the Pacific