I sold my home in Indiana today. Actually, my wife an I received an offer with a small amount of earnest money from the buyer. Given that we put a lot into the house and looked after it in a kindly fashion, I doubt there will be much trouble with inspections and I fully expect us to be moving out by June 7, 2010.
I’m glad we sold the house and that we can now move on, but I am nervous about my quest to start and build my own law firm. The more we do here in Indiana to move, the more nervous I get about all of the things I need to accomplish before I can open up a family law firm.
I need to take and pass the Minnesota bar exam. I need to set up a website. I need to worry about office space. I need business cards. Malpractice insurance. A forms library. I need telephone, fax, email. I need paper. I need pens. I need to worry about a lot of things.
I have been running my own firm in Indiana now for about three months. So, I have gone through the early motions of starting a law firm and I know a fair amount about what it will take. I was at a general practice firm here in Indiana for about three years. I took a few clients with me when I knew I was moving and I knew I could finish them up in 3 or 4 months. So, I know a fair amount about what it takes to start and run a family law firm in Indiana. But, obviously, Minnesota is a little different.
Actually, running my own practice hasn’t been that hard so far and I have made pretty good money. The biggest problem has been how to invoice and keep track of billing without proper billing software. I have been doing it with various programs that have all been bad. Actually, I keep wondering if one client still owes me $150 and whether I sent the invoice. I know, pretty silly.
I’ll post more when I figure out more about financial record-keeping software. That wasn’t really the point of this post. I suppose the point was to let everybody know I sold my home in Indiana and I am getting that much closer to making the move to Apple Valley, Minnesota and starting a law firm more real. Oh, and we sold the home in a week after putting it on the market. We sold it to a family medicine resident and her husband. My wife is a family medicine doctor, so I think we had a good in. Anyway, I’m happy we sold it. One less thing I need to worry about.