Relocating to year around better weather

[bobbie]

@PEARCE our last house had an hoa. Sounds similar to your experience but didn't dissolve the hoa. Our new one seems reasonable. Our dues are only $25 a month. According to the builders realtor they have been improving projects quickly. Can't wait to start exploring the lakes around texas. Coming from the northwest the water temp in the heat of the summer only gets to 78 degrees! Let us know where around Dallas you like!

 

[Scottintexas]

Ocean and sunset views. Air B&B in the downstairs to pay the mortgage! Most importantly, plenty of parking for the boat below the pool!

Does the B&B fee include boat tours (not the three hour variety) ? I think I would actually pay a premium to stay with a JBN member!

Congrats! that looks nice,

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[malibu Dan]

@PEARCE our last house had an hoa. Sounds similar to your experience but didn't dissolve the hoa. Our new one seems reasonable. Our dues are only $25 a month. According to the builders realtor they have been improving projects quickly. Can't wait to start exploring the lakes around texas. Coming from the northwest the water temp in the heat of the summer only gets to 78 degrees! Let us know where around Dallas you like!

How close are you getting to move in?? Latest pics...

 

[bobbie]

@malibu Dan I’m a texan in 3 more days after today!! we do the walkthrough on Wednesday and we take possession the following week. I’ll be staying with my brother until the 16th in austin. Morgan will head back to portland a few more weeks. did your build get shut down??

 

[bobbie]

@malibu Dan i’ll get some more pics when we do the walkthrough on Wednesday!

 

[malibu Dan]

@malibu Dan i’ll get some more pics when we do the walkthrough on Wednesday!

Pics look great.. so excited for you guys.. they are still plugging along here.. cabinets and paint this coming week...

 

[bobbie]

@malibu Dan Excited for you too. It feels so great to be away from nw weather. All those that say “oh, but the summers here are amazing” can go pound sand. i will take 10 months of great weather any day.

 

[Scuba_ref]

Amen! We close on our house next week and officially start moving in on Friday!

It is fun to watch the progress for you two!

 

[bobbie]

@Scuba_ref congrats!!

 

[malibu Dan]

@malibu Dan Excited for you too. It feels so great to be away from nw weather. All those that say “oh, but the summers here are amazing” can go pound sand. i will take 10 months of great weather any day.

 

[PEARCE]

@malibu Dan I'm really liking how your house is turning out. Looks as though your tile roof is in progress. What kind of tile is it? Is it a normal thing or an upgrade? Most roofs here in Texas are asphalt shingles with the occasional standing seem metal roof. That attached rv garage looks awesome! That's a perfect setup for a rv in your future or your man-cave at least for now. I have a detached toy garage/man-cave that I keep our Yamaha in that has a 10.5'w by 14' tall door and the inside depth is 34'. Lots of room for lots of stuff! Next to the garage and under the same roof is a carport, or rv port if you will, for our 5th wheel camper. We have to keep our toys out of the sun when not being used. Please keep the pics of the progress coming.

 

[bobbie]

@malibu Dan Great progress!! So jealous of the rv garage. Had we ended up in Phoenix we would have done that too. You will be done in no time! Just had the walkthrough this morning. Another week and will be all signed. BTW.. 2.625% interest on our loan!!

 

[malibu Dan]

@malibu Dan Great progress!! So jealous of the rv garage. Had we ended up in Phoenix we would have done that too. You will be done in no time! Just had the walkthrough this morning. Another week and will be all signed. BTW.. 2.625% interest on our loan!!

Wow... that’s an incredible rate.. 3.75 is the best we could do.. can’t wait to see your final pics.. when does groundbreaking on pool start?

 

[Ratket]

Rv Garages and Concrete tile roofs are the standard now in the Az desert. In Lake Havasu there are so many “ SO MANY” storage places and they are all full. So many and so many “ Snow Birds” are just building/Adding Rv garages. Grass is also a rather rare landscape lol

 

[malibu Dan]

@malibu Dan I'm really liking how your house is turning out. Looks as though your tile roof is in progress. What kind of tile is it? Is it a normal thing or an upgrade? Most roofs here in Texas are asphalt shingles with the occasional standing seem metal roof. That attached rv garage looks awesome! That's a perfect setup for a rv in your future or your man-cave at least for now. I have a detached toy garage/man-cave that I keep our Yamaha in that has a 10.5'w by 14' tall door and the inside depth is 34'. Lots of room for lots of stuff! Next to the garage and under the same roof is a carport, or rv port if you will, for our 5th wheel camper. We have to keep our toys out of the sun when not being used. Please keep the pics of the progress coming.

Thanks, the roof was standard with this development.. so happy with the progress so far... now gotta slowly convince the wife a new toy is needed in that big, empty garage...

 

[malibu Dan]

When we were selling our last house to move we had so many perspective buyers say” wish you had somewhere to store my RV/toys.. we knew we needed an RV garage this time around to ensure if we needed to sell that this would not be an issue....

 

[malibu Dan]

We just checked on the house.. had to voice up about a 2x4 protruding out of the RV garage wall to ensure it was fixed sooner than later., they had to cut a hole in the ceiling to get to it...

 

[malibu Dan]

@malibu Dan Great progress!! So jealous of the rv garage. Had we ended up in Phoenix we would have done that too. You will be done in no time! Just had the walkthrough this morning. Another week and will be all signed. BTW.. 2.625% interest on our loan!!

Well....??

 

[Scuba_ref]

First night at our new place looked like this!

 

[bobbie]

@malibu Dan second walkthrough just done! Signing at 9:00am Thursday. Everything is looking good. Just painting touch up.