The Car is Sold.... OOPS... NOT Sold Yet!

When Ed and I started making our plans to move to Ecuador, everything has gone very smoothly.  We sold our home in days, had a very successful Estate Sale, we moved into a friends condo that she only uses part of the year, and we found a new home for our two mini schnauzers.  I should had known there would be one or two speed bumps along the way.  Here is our first....

It was back in June when a friend of Ed's (lets call him Guy) said he would be very interested in buying our 2005 XC90 Volvo.  The SUV is in excellent condition and has less than 82,000 miles.  Guy did some research on the car and he and Ed talked about the price.  Ed did not have a hard ball price set on the car but suggested where he would like to be.  The end of July, Ed went back to Guy to see if he still wanted the car and Guy told Ed is did.  But, that he would take it just before we left for Ecuador.

Ed spent the month of August in Montana to visit his 6 sisters and one brother.  For the last 20 years, their whole family meets up at Seeley Lake and has a week long reunion.  This trip had been planned long before our plans developed for moving to Ecuador.  This year even our two children and their families would be joining the reunion.

The month of August I focused on getting documents completed for our residency for Ecuador.  I found great duffel bags and started packing up items that we needed in Cuenca.  I didn't have to deal with the car, because we knew it was sold and Guy was just waiting for us to be done with the use of it.

When Ed got back from Montana, he and Guy meet.  Guy wanted to look over the car again and see again what all the options it had on it.  They were just down to taking final sales amount.  Ed told Guy that he really wanted to make it a "win win" situation.  Guy said he would get back with Ed on his price.

The day before Labor Day, Guy wrote Ed an email and informed him that he would not be buying the car.  Well, that sure us in a pickle.  The following day we were driving down to Miami to get some of documents completed by the Ecuadorian Consulate.  We were down to less than two weeks before our departure and that really didn't give us time to sell the car.

Ed drove the car over to the Tampa Volvo dealership because they had shown interest in buying it.  He took a half day doing that and was only offered half of the going sales price of the car.  He drove it back home.

I contacted the our friend who owns the condo where we are staying.  I asked permission to store the car in her garage here until we come back the end of February.  She said that would be fine.  It is not a perfect solution but we don't feel like giving the car away.  We will take some time to sell it then.

Our second speed bump came down in Miami and dealing with the Ecuadorian Consulate.... but that is another story.  It is titled 'The Ecuadorian Consulate Story'.

Peggy