Everything coming together

Wow... things just seem to be happening fast. I received 2 job offers on Halloween. One much much lower than the other, but the lower one was the job that I really wanted more. Fortunately, we reached an agreement that was acceptable to both of us and so I accepted a job at Highland Solutions which is a computer programming company down in the loop in Chicago. The other company offer was Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois. That job was also very tempting for different reasons than Highland's. It was not an easy decision. I don't usually take risks, and the company I chose was definitely the riskier of the two (a 16-person company vs. the monolith that we all know is BCBS)

And yesterday we received an offer on the house. It was lower than we hoped, and we wanted to make a counter-offer but were warned that the buyer had another house picked out whose sale price was lower than what she was offering us. So if we didn't take her initial offer, she was going to go with the other house. After long and serious discussion, we decided to take it. There were several other benefits, such as the person doesn't need to sell a house first and also she wants to close the same day we're scheduled to move out anyway. The timing couldn't be more perfect.

So I've given my notice at my current job, and will be moving to Chicago in less than a month.

The only glitch so far is my car. I was assured when I leased the car that the lease could be tranferred to another person. Today when I tried to arrange that (I have someone that wanted to take it over) I was informed by the financing company that I can't transfer it. Instead, I can add someone to the lease, but I still remain on the lease. I called the car dealership and they said "no", I COULD transfer it. I made them call the financing company and they came back and said that it did turn out that I had to stay on the lease. I find that to be deceptive sales practice since that was an assurance that helped convince me to sign a 4-year lease. I may have to follow up with the dealership and point this out and see if they offer any workable alternative because of their misinformation. Right now the only way out of lease is to buy it outright and then sell it to someone. Anyone out there want to buy a 2-year old VW Passat?