The Chalet Leaves For Alaska - Without Us

With some nostalgia, we put a For Sale listing on Craigslist for the Chalet. For the first week we had a few contacts and lookers, but nothing very serious. Then one day we got an email from a woman saying she was very interested in the Chalet and asking us to call a 907 area code. About an hour later we got an email from the other half of this couple with some specific questions about the Chalet and repeating the request that we call. We looked up the area code and it turned out to be in Alaska! We made the call and thus began a weeklong series of calls in which we discussed the Chalet’s features and condition, possible trips by the buyers to come and inspect the Chalet, the locations of ports that they might use to ship the Chalet out of Washington and how we might get it there. As it turned out, we ended up with a good enough rapport and level of trust that they just wired us the money, and we took the Chalet to the Port of Tacoma the same day and put it on the ship leaving the next day to Anchorage. Quite the experience!