Gaining Ground

The first detail of the day yesterday was to get the ball rolling to get our transponders for the gates. I went to the office and they verified that the information they needed was received from the lot owners and I just had to complete the form with our vehicle details. Since we have 2 vehicles, I had to provide the info for each, so following a trip back to the rig to get the VIN numbers for each, the application was complete. We will go to the ranger station today between 10 and 3 to get the transponders installed on our vehicle windshields. They are permanent installations and we would just re-activate them should we return in the future to rent again.

All of the other chores we had scheduled were completed in the morning so we took a drive around our old neighborhood in Sun City Grand to check things out. First of all, I had forgotten how beautiful it was with the four, very green golf courses. We stopped and picked up some flyers from homes that were listed for sale and there are some terrific buys right now. The low-end homes that I was selling for $240K - $270K back in 2007 are now selling for $150-$180K. It's too bad we aren't in the market to buy right now, especially with the low interest rates. We expect those low prices will slowly creep up, but the Feds have promised to keep the interest rates low, at least for the next couple years. We hope that when the time comes for us to buy something, somewhere, it will still be a buyers' market. We were also surprised to see a cactus in bloom at this time of year:

I guess there are different times of the year for different types of cactus.

Today we will complete the transponder installation and also get some "feelers" out for some seasonal work in the area. There is also the plan that needs to be developed for consolidating our storage units. At least the temperatures are beginning to drop in this area to a decent number where we can do some outside work. It looks like the highs for this week will remain in the mid 80's which is fine with us...