Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Getting there may be the toughest part

Nowadays we hear "fraud this" and "protection that" without thinking much of it until of course you find out your denied student loans because of a delinquent account, which of course your completely unaware of. Now that we are in the middle of this situation we are scrambling trying to figure out how to get the fraud off Megan's account while also quickly realizing no one in our family can manage the co-signature we now need to establish a loan for the first year while the credit card company takes there time to clear the fraud from her credit report. As the date of our departing flight approaches closer and closer the stress level rises and rises.

As we make call after call to the various agencies I start to wonder if the stress of Vet school will really be all that bad after the stress of just getting there...

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Getting Started

This is the first official Glaser blog. I plan to update this as often as possible, keeping all you state side up-to-date with our fun and games in Grenada. As Megan and I are still in Santa Barbara our adventure starts with just getting us off the mainland and on our way to Grenada. We have a couple major hurtles left to get over...
1. get student loans... finding out you have fraud on my credit report by being denied student loans is a tough lesson. We are still working with the loan company and the credit card company to get this settled ASAP.
2. sell the condo - We love our condo but we don't love it's costs. We've met with multiple CPAs and they all say "get out from underneath it". As much as we'd love to keep it there just isn't any way. We plan to drop the price once again to try to get this to move ASAP.
3. Pack our stuff up and either sell or store everything big... It's a tough decision, at what point do you sell everything and start over vs paying to store it for four years? Based on the fact that we have pretty nice stuff in general it's probably worth storing it seeing as selling it will only get us pennies on the dollar.

Beyond those it's just packing our bags, mildly drugging our two adorable fuzzballs, and jumping on a plane for a grueling 16 hours total travel time. It's a long trip for two humans, and a very scary one for two miniature Schnauzers.