Thanks guys. I've packed all the trains by myself, everything well secured in boxes. We're hiring people to load / unload our truck, but I'll be driving the truck myself direct to our new destination. Even so, there's only a few pieces that I would say I'd be heartbroken to lose (mostly the stuff I've posted on here as I rebuilt / reconditioned it). Either way, I was legitimately shocked at how much train stuff I've accumulated in this short time. But buying most of it as junk and restoring / refinishing it has brought me lots of at-home entertainment that I'm grateful for.
I don't enjoy renting...we rented this place for 6 years and it never felt like home. And I'll be renting for the foreseeable future (I'm a business owner of a very capital intensive operation, and this early in the life of the company we are simply not posting any profits at all. Nobody is lending to entrepreneurs who don't also have a cadre of additional collateral...)
So dads place it is!
