Doing Drive By

The main thing we wanted to accomplish yesterday was to do a drive by on a couple of the rental listings that our property manager has provided. He has sent about 25 listings so far, and we chose two that looked very promising for fulfilling our requirements. The first one was a very nice home in a very nice neighborhood (Arrowhead Ranch) that was within walking distance of one of Josie's new store locations. I took these shots of the outside of the house:

We were only able to look at the inside by peeking through the windows and there would be some problems with the interior - very small rooms. Otherwise, it satisfies every aspect of what we are looking for in a rental. The other main concern we have is that there were no visible RV's in the neighborhood which indicates to us that it is probably similar to the home we are going to sell - RV gates, but no RV's allowed. That will be a problem in many areas.

The second home was a little bit south of the first, and not worthy of photos. It did have the ability to store your RV on site, but the back yard was forgettable. It was also on a corner lot with the RV storage on the side of a busy street. It was older and not in as nice a neighborhood as the first.

We will continue looking and feel confident that there is a "right" house for us out there somewhere. The good news is that we have a huge area identified for the search.

We also made a stop at our storage unit to pick up our regular, outside grill to use here a the Resort. Our small grill that is used for travel is not performing well which resulted in that move. There are things we need to get done around the RV today, so it looks like a "stay close to home" day...