PCS Blog

Well, it is now official, we are homeowners! We are so glad that this part is over with and we can now just concentrate on moving. I will say that the home buying process for us was actually smooth. And the best advice I can give anyone who plans on ...
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All the tedious work of buying a house has passed...thankfully! We are now just waiting to close on our house. At this point, you would think stress would be gone. But it's not. It won't be gone until we close and officially own the house! In the meantime, I am ...
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I just got back from 10 days of being gone to Texas. The entire purpose of the trip was to buy a house. Unfortunately  Jerry couldn't go since his Fire 1 class has not finished yet. However, my Mom did go with me which was awesome! It's been several decades since ...
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I am happy to say that we now have found a Realtor! I will be leaving for Texas around March 8th so I can find us a house. I knew that I needed to find a Realtor soon, so she or he would have enough time to gather our needs ...
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Finding the area to live in when you PCS can be so nerve-racking! So we have been pre-approved for a home loan. Now we need to decide what area to live in around Fort Hood. Our first instinct was Harker Heights or Copperas Cove. But as we have thought more about it, ...
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Latest on the PCS Blog: Report Date Moved! Our report date has been moved up by 20 days! That means that instead of leaving here August 1st, we will be leaving here around July 10th! In addition to that my husband started his Fire 1 class last night and found ...
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Step 1 in finding a house, get pre-approved! So we are roughly 5-6 months away from our final PCS. I had planned on waiting another 2 months (when I had time to pay down a debt) before trying to get us pre-approved for a home loan. But the stress of ...
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It's that time again! Yes, folks it is PCS time again! We came down on orders (finally) in November. The report date was set for the end of October (we weren't happy about them being so far out), so hubby put in a request for early reporting and as of ...
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I am going to spend the year pulling out my hair! OK, well I hope I don't pull out my hair, but I just realized how extremely busy we will be this year. Why? Well for starters we received PCS orders with a report date at the end of the ...
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The movers show up in 2 days which is on Wednesday, so as of right now that is less than 48 hours away. We have gotten so much done, but it feels like we are forgetting to do stuff even though I have my very detailed PCS checklist. Why is ...
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You can just put a cork in me because I am ready to scream! It's Friday the 13th. I am one of those crazy individuals that actually looks forward to Friday the 13th, Halloween and any other wacky, superstitious holiday you can come up with. But this Friday the 13th ...
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Part of PCSing it to notify the schools so yesterday I contacted my children's school to find out exactly how this move will affect their schooling. Here is the problem that has me worried; school lets out here June 17th (5 days later than expected due to snow days). Our move ...
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This afternoon we had our TMO briefing. Everything is apparently done online now and this briefing is just a formality. We filled out paperwork that we apparently did not need to fill out since we already created an account with move.mil. In fact, turns out we didn't even need to ...
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Housing application has been submitted. Time to mark that off the list! So I completed my pre-PCS checklist a couple of days ago and the first thing on it is to notify the housing office to the new post that we will be PCSing to that we would like to ...
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We (yes I say we in this case, considering it means all of us will be moving) got our orders today! June 10th is the report date for Fort Lee. We are so excited! It is about a month to month and half earlier than what they had told us ...
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