Hey guys.
As you know, I'm headed out to Lucca on May 1. As you also know, I have signed a standard 3 year lease for my new apartment. Before I leave, I thought it would be prudent to write down some important contact information...just so you have some way of reaching me in case of emergency. The best way that I can suggest is to contact the lawyer that I have been working with for months to get a retirement visa and and to get my apartment details settled. She (like everyone else in Italy) has an account on WhatsApp.
Her phone # is: +39 348 863 3725
email: giulianapatitucci@libero.it
Address. Via Citadella, 24. Lucca, 55100 Italy.
When I arrive in early May, I will meet with her to get my Italian health insurance and sign all the paperwork for the utilities that she has set up for the apartment. I will arrange with her to be my emergency contact, JUST IN CASE. I'm not expecting any trauma but there are no guarantees.
In addition to the lawyer, the realty agency handling the rental will also be in touch with me monthly because I have to make part of the rent payment in CASH so I will almost surely be in constant contact with them. My contact there is:
daniela@marcocatelli.it
WhatsApp phone#: +39 349 248 9850
Mailing Address: STUDIO AFFITTI DI MARCO CATELLI, Via Pesciatina #1209, Lucca, 55100 Italy
At the moment, I don't have any other contacts in Lucca with access to the digital outside world.
I'm also in the process of assembling all my important legal/medical/financial/digital documents so people can handle important STUFF that will have to be done if I am incapacitated. I've spent the last few weeks huddled up around my heated space indoors trying to organize how bills are paid, taxes sent out on time and how accounts are accessed. This is a vast quagmire that I never anticipated, so it's taken me days to organize the bulk of it. I'm following Bahiya's request that I write all this stuff down and leave a copy of everything in our lockbox. I hope to have everything finished next week.
So for now, just understand that I will get this done finally after avoiding it for years. It's important and it's going to be done before I leave.
That's my story for now and I'm stickin to it.
Dan
